It's a lovely sunny day and it's the Third of May, the day the Polish Constitution was born in 1791. It's a national celebration so in Poland no one is...
April 10, 2018
Do you remember where you were, when you heard the news? This week we commemorate two incredibly sad days for the Poles: 10 April, the 8th anniversary of the Smolensk...
November 25, 2017
We are all the poorer for the passing of three amazing women this year: Basia Zdanowicz, Luna Golińska and Krystyna Szwagrzak. Each had incredible stories of hardship and terror during...
October 11, 2017
The images of Poland we 'English Poles' grew up with in post-war UK were, I suspect, nothing like what our contemporaries in Poland had. Our identity was rooted in the past and...
July 28, 2017
So kolonie zuchowe (Polish brownie and cub camps) have been going on for nearly a century and certainly for over 60 years in the UK, yet the children play many of...
May 3, 2017
To launch the blog I took a trip around a few of my favourite Polish places in London. This is not an exclusive list, there are more places, but a...
May 3, 2017
I know from experience it’s hard to manage in a bilingual home, especially if only one of you speaks Polish. What with work and school, it’s sometimes easier to just...
May 3, 2017
“Are My Roots Showing” is a light hearted fictional breeze through the exploits of British born Magda Mikołajczyk, as she goes to Warsaw to teach Polish. It’s full of wonderful...
