….THIS! Don’t you just love it? I won this in a competition on the Facebook page of the Iceland Today website. I could have won a whale-watching trip (please God, not again), a woolly jumper or...
The Gallery – Favourite Photo – Iceland
For Tara’s Gallery this week we have to choose our favourite photo. For me, it had to be this one, Thingvellir in Iceland, for a variety of reasons. The Geography The great fault line...
Life’s Rich Tapestry
It’s a funny old thing, Facebook. Not long ago it reconnected me with my second cousin , Toni, a blogger whose posts I had already been reading. Expat Mum and I eventually met up and our mums are now picking...
Here Come the Girls – Miss Italia
This is an entry for Tara Cain’s The Gallery, the theme this week is “Here Come the Girls”. Summer 2009, a fantastic holiday on Lake Garda, staying in the town of Bardollino. The favourite...
Louis, can I be in your Over 28s?
Okay, brace yourselves. Here’s me, at the charity concert in Broad Street Methodist Church in Spalding on Saturday. “Broadway to Broad Street” had songs from the shows including Les Miserables, The Best Little Whorehouse...
Cooking a curry with The Nearly Naked Chef
My husband, Dougie, is a quiet man, reserved, not one for small talk. Put him in the audience for a stand-up comedian, however, and suddenly he comes to life. You know those idiots who...
A big sloppy kiss for….
….Deer Baby and Very Bored in Catalunya. These two ladies and blogging buddies were instrumental in getting me off my behind to actually submit an article to a newspaper and, bugger me, it was published this...
Honeymoon Horror
This is a cutting from the front page of the Daily Mirror, June 25, 1990. Ignore Steffi Graf running on a beach (if you can) and digest, if you would, the dramatic headline on the...