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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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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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I’ve been hearing good reports of Shiuli for ages. It opened in December 2021 and is just a 5-minute walk from my house; I pass it whenever I go to the bus stop. However, it wasn’t until last night that I finally ate there. To be fair to myself, for a long time I didn’t […]
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It’s becoming a family tradition to go to The Nutcracker at Christmastime – again! Again because I was taken to see it as a child for many years and it’s wonderful that now my grandsons are old enough to enjoy it too. It was Freddie’s (10) third time; Ben’s (8) second and this time my […]
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I’ve written about Santa Maria before: my first visit to the Ealing branch in 2019 and to the Kew branch earlier this year. But when I took the grandsons to Kew in July, there was no kids’ menu … then last Monday, my son suggested we all went to Kew Gardens for a walk in […]
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Christmas is a time for traditions and for me growing up, it meant being taken to a show, most often The Nutcracker ballet, which I went to every year for many years. I’ve started that tradition with the grandsons and have tickets again for just after Christmas. However, a new tradition has also come in […]
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I wrote about a rather disastrous visit to the Comptoir Libanais on London’s South Bank only a couple of weeks ago … so why did I go again so quickly? Well, the food had been brilliant, it was only the service that had been poor, indeed terrible. But it’s half term and I like to […]
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I met my lovely friend Lucia last night for a meal. She suggested going to The Resto near Highbury & Islington tube as this is a sort of halfway point from my home in SW London and hers in Hertfordshire. The Resto is a pizzeria serving Neopolitan pizzas and food of the Aegean. Well, I […]
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