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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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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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It’s school holiday time and it’s always lovely to take the grandsons out for a treat. Today’s outing was a little last minute so we weren’t going to venture far. The family are coming and going a bit during the holidays and are briefly home for a few days. Looking at the weather forecast, I […]
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The Easter holidays have begun and I always like to take the boys – my son’s eldest two, Freddie (10) and Ben (7) – for an outing. It’s fun for me – and it always seems fun for them too! Of late, we’ve combined some kind of cultural – art/museum/theatre – visit with a meal […]
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After lots of damp and foggy weather over the Christmas period, it was lovely to wake to a bright, sunny day yesterday. I had tickets to take grandsons Freddie (9) and Ben (7) to The Nutcracker at the London Coliseum. I took Freddie last January but Ben would join us this year. (There’s a minimum […]
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I love to take the two eldest grandsons, Freddie (9) and Ben (6), out for a treat in the holidays – they’re such good company and it’s so much fun to spend time with them. Today we headed into London in the morning for some art again (see last trip) and then lunch. It’s slightly […]
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It started with Ben (6) coming back from school a couple of weeks’ ago and wanting to tell me they’d been learning about Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney in school that day. As he started a drawing, reproducing for me the Lichtenstein painting they’d be studying, he recognised ‘The Splash’ on the front of a […]
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As a child, I was taken to The Nutcracker ballet at Christmas every year. I began ballet lessons at the tender age of three and carried on until I was 15. Of course, as I watched Tchaikovsky’s magical ballet, I wanted, like many other little girls, to be a ballerina … but I was also […]
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We’re lucky to have a lot of good cafes in Twickenham but we’re always drawn to the Italian ones. The family have frequented Corto Italian Deli for years and it’s a favourite but a few months ago I decided to give the newer Buongiorno cafe, which is much nearer my house, a try. It’s nice […]
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