Restaurant Review: The Portrait by Richard Corrigan

The National Portrait Gallery has been a favourite gallery of mine for years and I recently renewed my Membership now it’s reopened after three years of major refurbishment. I used to be there so often that it became very familiar and now I’m trying to adjust to finding my way around the new layout and […]

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My Week in Food

It’s been another good week of food, made all the better by enjoying some lovely warm summer days which have meant another barbecue and the irresistible lure of gelato! Here’s how it went: Tuesday – Frittata and A Walk Up Richmond Hill It was book club night so an early supper of a frittata into […]

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A Day in London: National Portrait Gallery & Lunch at Yalla Yalla

My daughter Nicola was 34 last Friday. That’s how long I’ve been a mother and it’s how long I’ve been a freelance book editor, rather than an in-house full-time one. Just as I’m in some ways still experimenting on my firstborn, even though she’s a real grown-up now (as a firstborn myself I can empathise […]

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