Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
I’ve just had a lovely short break in Brittany with my daughter Nicola and grandson Rufus (see part one). After leaving a wet St Malo after lunch on the first day, we were pleased to find the weather brightening and sun forecast for our first evening in Dinan. We’d chosen Dinan as our base for […]
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My daughter Nicola and my grandson Rufus (7) were taking a car trip round Brittany and planning to finish in the St Malo area and Nicola invited me to join them for the last few days. This was partly in memory of my parents as our last holiday with them before Dad died in 2009 […]
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I always love to have an outing with the boys (now 5, 8 and 11) at holiday time. The family have been coming and going on different trips since school broke for the summer holidays and I took my chance at having the boys today. But where to go and what to do? As we […]
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It was a fairly last-minute arrangement for me to meet friends Lucia and David at the highly acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Noel Coward Theatre in London’s St Martin’s Lane. As they weren’t able to meet for a meal beforehand I decided to eat at that old favourite of […]
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I’ve traditionally gone on trips to art galleries and had lunch out during my freelance book editor ‘gardening breaks’ – as actors call breaks of no work. I’m actually quite busy but realised I had to have a break anyway, so between finishing one job over the weekend and starting a new one, I thought […]
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It had been a while since I’d seen my aunt Arleen (who is so close in age she’s a friend really) so I was excited to be making the trip to Kent again on Friday. Kent is where I grew up and much of my family still live there. Arleen lives in Birchington by the […]
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One of the wonderful things about having visitors, apart from spending time with good friends, is the incentive to find out more about what’s going on in your home town so that you have some exciting things to entertain them. My friend Lynn and I have known each other for over twenty years, but now […]
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I used to go to a lot of events at London galleries where artists, art historians and art critics talked about their work. There have not been so many of these in recent years so I was particularly excited by the National Gallery’s new series: Picture This, in which broadcaster John Wilson is in conversation […]
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After some rather grey, cold and windy weather over Easter, the last couple of days the sun has put in a welcome appearance and I’ve had to change into summer clothes and even locate the sun cream! Typical British weather than can change dramatically literally overnight. When I woke to a clear blue sky this […]
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Wrexham My son’s wife comes from Wrexham in North Wales and when they booked a farmhouse for a week so they could go up and visit her family, they invited me to join them. I was delighted to have a relaxing week with the family, enjoyed seeing the Welsh family, and the countryside around Wrexham […]
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