Author Archive for japra
JaPRA is an expat Texan living in England with her husband (Mr. DJ), their 17-year old daughter (Roxi), and their dog Trudy.
A few milestones
Well, hello there! Happy New Year, one month in ;) It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I hope all of you have been well. I took a few pictures when I went to Guildford this week. I haven’t been taking a lot of photos lately, mostly because I’ve been working on my Berklee music biz [...]
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Stand well away from Platform 3. The approaching train is not scheduled to stop. Thanks for stopping by! I’m sure you’ve already noticed, but I’m taking a little break from my blog while I work on another BIG project. I’m still hanging around the web, though. You can find me here: JaPRA Facebook * JaPRA [...]
She smelled a rat
Since winter, Trudy has been one obsessed dog. You see, almost as soon as the weather turned cold, we started hearing little scratches coming from the utility room, behind the baseboards, behind one of the cabinets in the kitchen, under the floor in the entry hall. And it made Trudy crazy, especially since with the [...]
How have you all been doing these last SIX weeks?!
Gosh, I can’t believe it’s been six weeks since I last posted here. I’ve really missed you all! I am finally getting the hang of things with my online school. Plus we’re finally done with some of the harder things in music business like contracts and copyrights. I won’t say I know all of that stuff intimately, [...]
We sprang forward and a jumble of other things
Finally back in British Summertime, and boy is it nice to have that extra hour of daylight at the end of the day. We’ve been having such BRILLIANT weather too! And obviously our plants are loving the sunshine. Aren’t they blooming nicely? The top photo is a flowering tree of sorts, kind of magnolia-like, but [...]
Portugal: Sintra
I don’t have a lot of photos from Sintra. It poured the ENTIRE time we were there and after a while, I gave up trying to keep my camera dry. But trust me, you want to go! The entire town is a UNESCO World Heritage site–well deserved. If you’re visiting Sintra as a day trip [...]
Portugal: Strolling through Lisbon
When we booked our Portugal trip at the beginning of January for mid-February travel, I had visions of basking in sparkling, warm, Spring-like days and enjoying a lovely coffee and a delicious Portuguese pastry in an outdoor cafe. In other words, we were going to steal away to what I imagined to be sun-soaked Portugal to ward [...]
Spring comes on the World
The quince is blooming. Well, maybe just a hint of it. One can sense a change in the air this week. It’s still cold (30s-40s), but I can go out in my tshirt for a minute or two without feeling like I’m going to freeze. The forsythia is blooming and glows in what little sunlight we have. The [...]
