I attended an excellent cheese and wine tasting course with Alix Robinson at the West London Wine School in Fulham last week. Learnt loads and Alix was a really good, knowledgable teacher. I can’t say the same about her artistic […]
I think I managed to hit the peak of my professional Pilates career during my Zoom class for my friends this week. We were in the middle of doing the side plank and I had my phone in front of […]
As if 2020 hasn’t been brutal enough for us all, my poor mother’s year has ended with someone having a very unnecessary joke at her expense. She ordered quite a lot of wine from Laithwaite’s on our behalf for Christmas, […]
Given that for the foreseeable future we can’t visit bars and restaurants so have been forced to drink at home instead, what better way to use Zoom than to engage with the wine industry and learn about wine from experts […]
Week 6 of London Lockdown, or Day 38 to be precise. Here in the UK we still haven’t been told about our exit strategy, mainly because Boris Johnson not only nearly died, but has just added to his every growing […]
Week 5 of London Lockdown, or Day 30 to be precise. What can you see out of your window, wherever you are in the world? How is lockdown for you? How are you coping? Lot’s of places now attempting to come […]
The last Sunday before everything changes again. This election. Honestly. How have they been allowed to put us all through this interminable pain so close to Christmas? Please, no more party political broadcasts or images of politicians playing football and […]
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 SO SO proud of my very old (as in long-standing) friends The Drivers who have managed to do something extraordinary in the South Downs. Sarah and I grew up together in Hong Kong and she was lucky enough to […]
I am only just beginning to feel human again after the party of the year was held on Saturday night at Rathfinny Estate in Sussex. It was Mark Driver, the owner’s 50th birthday party and I was privileged enough to […]
So who knew there were award winning restaurant’s at Walt Disney World? One of my favourite evenings whilst a guest of Walt Disney World was dining in the private Sonoma Room at the California Grill at Disney’s Contemporary Resort which […]
This is the little poster my daughter bought me for Christmas…..
