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Visiting Astley Vineyard has been a long time in the plans. It began with sampling their delicious wine, courtesy of my daughter Nicola, who lives only a 10-minute drive from them. Then she bought me some of their wonderful vermouth when I got into drinking vermouth a lot after attending a vermouth workshop run by […]
Read MoreI’ve just been up to Worcestershire to see my daughter and new grandson. It’s quite a long journey from London – minimum 2½ hour drive each way – so I prefer to stay the night. However, as Nicola & Rachael’s house is deep in renovation and there’s no room for me to sleep in at […]
Read MoreThe weather forecast was right. Which isn’t something you can always trust in UK. The weather all week has been bleak in London, more akin to autumn than summer. When I arranged to visit Nicola and Rachael this weekend I opted for Sunday as that looked like the only sunny day in sight. And luckily […]
Read MoreI went up to Birmingham to visit my daughter, Nicola, over the weekend. We’re both members of the National Trust and so yesterday decided we’d visit a Trust house and gardens near to where she lives. The weather was a bit mixed. It had definitely been rather autumnal in Birmingham on Saturday but Sunday was […]
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