How to ruin a good song for everyone. One Short Day from the musical Wicked is on our set list for the Christmas concert our AmDram group are performing in Spalding town centre this weekend....
Mum’s Gone to the Cotswolds – Oxford
A month later, I’m finally getting around to posting about the last part of our Cotswolds trip. So you’ve had the journey there via Tesco and the Rollright Stones, I’ve moaned about our fruitless...
Review: Mega Hi-Tower from Garden Games
Hi-Tower – with volleyball to give you some sense of scale My teenage son, Rory, was sitting beside me when the email came through offering me the chance to review a Giant...
Mum’s Gone to the Cotswolds – Beautiful Blenheim
After the disaster of Bicester and the success of ‘going for a walk’, our second full day in the Cotswolds greeted us with pouring rain. Undeterred, we donned sturdy footwear and raincoats and drove off...
We Will Remember Them
Do you remember this photograph I posted a couple of weeks ago (here) for The Gallery, the theme for that week being Faces? Well, that particular week there was a prize for the best photo...
Book Review: The House of the Wind by Titania Hardie
The House of the Wind, by Titania Hardie, tells the story of two women, centuries apart, whose lives are woven together by the myth of the woman who walked away unscathed from the ruins...
Mum’s Gone to the Cotswolds – How to spend nothing at Bicester.
Path up to Minster Mill reception. Now, where was I? I was interrupted in my story of what we got up to at half term by my giddy trip on the Thames and the...
A conversation I wish I’d never started – No.3
Another in the series of ‘Conversations I wish I’d never started’ with my teenage son, Rory. However, whereas conversations One and Two portrayed a mother with an addled brain versus a ‘too sharp he’ll cut...