A family journal
From Yorkshire to the Pacific coast
Stories, photographs and reflections from our life in Southern California, our travels, and the family history that brought us here.
About us
Welcome to beautiful Southern California
From Yorkshire to Southern California
Welcome to our little corner of Southern California!
I’m Paul, and together with my wife Julie, we’ve been fortunate enough to call America home since 2010. Most of that time has been spent enjoying the sunshine of Southern California, although we did venture north for a wonderful couple of years in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, near Seattle.
In 2021, we became American citizens, proudly adding an American passport to our British ones. Although, as anyone who knows me will tell you, you can take the lad out of Yorkshire, but taking Yorkshire out of the lad is another matter entirely.
Life has taken us to some remarkable places, introduced us to wonderful people and provided more than a few adventures along the way.
This website is our way of sharing a little of that journey — the places we’ve been, the people who matter, photographs, memories and the occasional observation about life on both sides of the Atlantic.
We hope you’ll enjoy looking around.
The journal
Latest from Paul
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From the Hollywood Hills to London’s American Bar
October 2026 Well, Carys has been and gone, and I think it’s fair to say she had a lovely time. We certainly enjoyed having her here, although, as…
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9/11 — Twenty Five Years Later
Never forget.
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A Keg Full of IPA, Beef Ribs and Something Like Dessert
Philadelphia, Rocky and Labor Day weekend.
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I Speak to Dead People
Victorian Wakefield to twenty-first-century California.
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Yorkshire Day
A light-hearted celebration of God’s Own County, its traditions, food, dialect, pride and enduring sense of home.
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America at 250: A Personal Reflection on Freedom, Opportunity, and Home
A personal reflection on freedom, opportunity, and home.
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Spring 2026
Birthdays, New York and wine.
The gallery
Collections & travels
Photo stories from home, the road and further afield.
