Welcome to the House of Feasts – a restaurant in the village of Eye Green on the outskirts of Peterborough. Chef Consultant Damian Wawrzyniak has transformed the village pub into a beautifully stylish establishment...
Bank holiday fun with Pass The Pigs
I am officially a bad mother. My son is now 21 and in all those years I forgot to introduce him to the joy of playing Pass The Pigs. This simple and very silly...
A Bank Holiday weekend with a Trespass jacket
What better way to test a new jacket than to take it away on a typical British Bank Holiday weekend. There’s bound to be a wide variety of weather conditions to put it through its...
Coffee time: Review of Leysieffer Kaffee capsule machine
Just spotting a capsule coffee machine in the Solar do Castelo hotel in Lisbon last month was enough to make me feel at home. The brightly coloured pods were instantly recognisable and I’ve become adept at...
Why we’re converts to Pro Packing Cubes
My husband Dougie is the designated packer in our house. Over the years he has taken it upon himself to turn packing into an art form. Old-style rolling method Dougie’s preferred method is to lie...
Fine dining: Noel Corston at NC@EX34
Although we would probably have been quite happy feasting on local fish and chips for a whole week, we made a family decision before we arrived in Woolacombe to try out Noel Corston’s fine...
In the Buff
“Can I have a Buff?” “No, what’s wrong with a scarf?” “But look what you can do with them – you can wear them as a neckerchief, a headband, a beanie, a bandana –...
Backing up your computer files if you aren’t good at that sort of thing…
For someone who spends a lot of time on the computer, I really am quite a technophobe. I’m also not very sensible. Documents and photos have...