You know that Spring has definitely sprung in the UK when two big sporting fixtures appear on the calendar, both taking place this weekend. Yesterday was the Grand National steeplechase (my horse came second :-() and today it’s the turn of the Oxford-Cambridge boat...
It’s Mother’s Day here in the UK and I’ve been spoiled rotten – fabulous lunch, gorgeous necklace my daughter bought with pocket money she’d saved up…the works. I certainly did better than the guy I overheard walking past us as we ate saying anxiously into his phone:...
Every week when I sit down to write Weekend Takeaways I try to think of all of you – by that I mean I aim to come up with suggestions that will span the wide variety of online and offline interests you represent. Of course, not everything I recommend will be of...
It’s early morning here in London and I’m listening to the birds singing in our garden as I type this. Moments like this remind me why I love working for myself – I choose my hours, my place of work and even my coffee beans. Yes, I might be at my desk way before...
The sun is shining down on London town and I am just back from a glorious day out in the riverside town of Richmond, only slightly marred by the presence of what felt like thousands of rugby fans gathered for the England-Wales match. Yep, this important fixture had...
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