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After some rather grey, cold and windy weather over Easter, the last couple of days the sun has put in a welcome appearance and I’ve had to change into summer clothes and even locate the sun cream! Typical British weather than can change dramatically literally overnight. When I woke to a clear blue sky this […]
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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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Regular readers will know that Aldeburgh has become a favourite place for me to head to for a short break. It’s an easy and not too long drive and, most importantly, I’ve come to really love it there. I first went in June 2022. I wanted to explore Suffolk, a county I didn’t know at […]
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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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It was nearly six years since I’d last been to Nice – September 2019. That time I’d stayed just 4 nights; 5 nights in 2015, but this time I made it a whole week. I decided that it would be nicer to stay in an apartment rather than a hotel for the longer spell and […]
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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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Malaga is a great choice for a short break early in the year as it’s one of the warmest places in mainland Europe in the winter/spring time. Last time I was there in January 2020 the weather was lovely and sunny – though with some rain – and temperatures in the late teens, but I […]
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This is the kind of post that usually gets published around new year, looking back on the best of the previous year. However, I had a busy start to 2025 – family and work – and so a look back on 2024 passed me by. Now spring is on our doorstep (not officially with us […]
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I’m just back from visiting my daughter for a couple of days. She lives in Worcestershire, about a 20-minute drive from the county’s capital, Worcester. We’ve never been into the city itself much in the years she’s lived there, but now 6-year-old grandson Rufus attends one of the Pauline Quirke Academies for a drama class […]
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I had a bit of a gap between jobs – my publishing work – so I decided to take advantage of having some free time to head into London and go to an art gallery. One of my favourite things to do! There are a few things on at the moment I’d like to see, […]
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