Travel tips-Restaurant reviews-Recipes
My son and his wife rented a cottage just outside Llangollen in North Wales, close to Wrexham where her family live, for the half term week. It was the second time I’ve been up this year and it was lovely to be invited to go up with them again and spend a few days with […]
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You’ve already written about Masaniello on the blog, Freddie said, as we came out of the restaurant last night and I stopped to take a photo of the front. Yes, I agreed, but not for a while. And a favourite restaurant deserves to be regularly celebrated. And there were some new things last night. […]
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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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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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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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