Well, not quite the Moulin Rouge, Paris, but it was South Lincolnshire’s equivalent, courtesy of the annual Spalding Midsummer Ball. Last year the theme was Boogie Nights and we disco-danced to The Real Thing under...
My Father’s Legacy
My Dad died in February so all this talk of Father’s Day is difficult for me. The theme for The Gallery this week is ‘Dads’ and over at Tim’s blog, Bringing up Charlie, there is a...
Island Girl
This is my new island. It’s a bloody big one. If you stand at one end you need semaphore to ask someone at the other end to pass the salt. Husband is having depraved...
Flying High
Do you remember the British Airways adverts some years ago which featured the Flower Duet music from the opera Lakme by Delibes? One of my readers, the lovely, funny Marion who lives in Panama, emailed me...
Mum’s Gone to the Airport – Trish’s Top Travel Tips
I think we are all familiar with most travel tips regarding air travel: colouring books for children, pashminas and loose clothing to counteract the cold and trapped wind (you didn’t know that?) , roll...
Mum’s not gone anywhere this week
This time last year we were sunning ourselves in Picardy, courtesy of Eurocamp. This year we are going nowhere; instead I’m playing at being the foreman and chief coffee maker while we have our...
The Gallery – My Backyard – Everything’s Coming Up Roses
I decided to play by the rules for The Gallery today so instead of sitting on the sofa browsing through old snaps, I removed by bum from the seat and have wandered round ‘My...
The day I walked on Vatnajokull Glacier
The Family Burgess on Vatnajokull glacier I read this morning that another volcano, Grimsvotn, has erupted in Iceland, this time under the Vatnajokull glacier in the south east of the country. I’ve been there,...