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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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‘A wonder to behold’ Telegraph ‘A joyful, bravura piece of stagecraft’ London Evening Standard ‘A magical revival’ The Times ******** My eldest grandson Freddie (9) is showing an interest in theatre, which is wonderful, and a few weeks’ ago I promised to find out what was on at […]
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It had been a long time. I could hardly believe when I checked the date of my first visit to The Palomar on the blog that it had been in December 2014. I went a second time a couple of years later with friends and have always meant to go back. But it didn’t seem […]
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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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Finally, I made it. Getting to eat at Trullo has literally been years in the making due to a couple of abortive attempts before. But when my lovely Italian friend Lucia and I were deciding where to meet up, she travelling from north London, me from south-west, Trullo seemed like a perfect option. So, a […]
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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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As you will have realised if you’re a regular reader of my blog, Aldeburgh in Suffolk has become one of my favourite places for a short break. I’m just back from my third visit and although April brought more than a few showers, and there were still lots of March winds blowing, it was still […]
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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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I saw Greg Marchand, chef/owner of Frenchie on BBC TV’s Saturday Kitchen last month, in Christmas mode and making a rather wonderful stuffing for chicken. I looked up his restaurant on my iPad and made a note that I must visit sometime. Then serendipity stepped in soon after and in an exchange of emails with […]
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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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