by Amanda | Apr 20, 2014 | Weekend Takeaways
Hey there and a very Happy Easter! Today my daughter can finally stop sniffing round all the kitchen cupboards hunting down her Easter eggs…and I can do the same. I love this time of year because, whether you celebrate Easter or not, there is a sense of hope and life...
by Amanda | Apr 13, 2014 | Weekend Takeaways
I’m writing this as I nearly always do, cup of coffee at my side on a Sunday morning, collating all the information I gathered for you during the week. I like to do it this way because it means what I send out is as fresh as possible but occasionally things do change...
by Amanda | Apr 6, 2014 | Weekend Takeaways
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...
by Amanda | Mar 30, 2014 | Weekend Takeaways
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:...
by Amanda | Mar 23, 2014 | Weekend Takeaways
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...
