Seeing the Ronnie Scott’s band perform at the Chelsea Flower Show was the best bit by far for me. I have to admit to not being a great fan of the Chelsea Flower Show on account of the fact that it is so bloody busy. You just walk and walk […]
What a shame that London Wine Week clashes with London Whine Week in my house – the biggest week of our year in terms of important exams – my youngest has one if not two exams every day this week so I’m not going to be able to appreciate Wine […]
GIRLS!!! We are massively missing a trick here. I went to review the latest production at Richmond Theatre on Tuesday evening “Tom Jones, The Musical” starring Kit Orton with my mother…it was her birthday and it seemed like a good idea. I wasn’t convinced that I would love it and […]
The thing is, of late I have been struggling to get my thoughts in any sort of blog shaped order. It’s not that I have less time, or indeed less inclination – it’s that I don’t really know what to say without feeling like I’m being too honest and needy. […]
Now I wish I had abandoned my attempt at staying in to be an anchor for my child who is revising and taken myself off to the Richmond Theatre to see King Lear. Instead my friend John O’Brien went and below is his King Lear review at Richmond Theatre. It […]
I promise you I am not about to become a vacuum cleaner reviewer and present endless blog posts about the pros and cons of various cleaners, BUT I felt it was only fair to write about my favourite vacuum cleaner, given it has served me well for the last at […]
So the Office for National Statistics have found that respondents in the 40-59 age bracket have the lowest levels of satisfaction and the highest levels of anxiety. Middle age stress abounds and happiness has dropped off the richter scale for us. Apparently that elusive beast only emerges again after 60, […]
Loving London this weekend in all the sunshine and WELL DONE to Sadiq Khan for becoming the new mayor of London. How exciting and we are all hopeful that he will do a good job. He fought a dignified battle and I believe it to be a personal triumph for […]
I wish I had seen the production BUG, by Tracy Letts as it opened, rather than the second last night, because I would have encouraged all my friends to go (not that it wasn’t a sell out production). BUT HURRY UP THERE’S MORE TIME – it was meant to finish […]
So I’m wondering how many parents actually kept their primary school children off school today? It’s a big deal to make a protest of this nature as it means, unless you are a stay at home parent, that you had to take a day off work. Would it have worked […]
Good luck to all those 15 & 16 year olds who are taking their English Language GCSE today. My son is doing the IGCSE one at his state school and I don’t know when it happened that they decided to go for that version and not the normal GCSE version. […]
The Giants Club Summit has just closed in Kenya as work begins on new Presidential actions in support of the elephant protection initiative. Elton John, Richard Branson and Bear Grylls sent personal messages of support to the gathering of African heads of state, corporate leaders, philanthropists, celebrities and scientists all […]
