My friends Lucia and David bought a house in Welwyn Garden City a little while ago and now, having done some work on it and turned it into a beautiful home, they decided to have a lunchtime party over the bank holiday weekend and invite friends and family. Welwyn Garden City was built in the […]
It’s half term week so it seemed a good time to head to Kent to visit my brother, niece and nephew. I arrived late morning and there was some debate about where we should go for a walk; where we should have lunch. In the end it was decided to go only to the neighbouring […]
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 […]