Katie-Belle is the travel-loving and cakeaholic blogger who usually writes over at delightso.me, where you can keep up with her travels and misadventures in baking. She’s reporting on her trip to Cyprus. She’s probably the exception rather than the rule. But my little girl is already something of a history buff. She already knows more […]
46/365 Not leaving on a jet plane
Can you imagine going on holiday?
Remember that cramped accommodation I mentioned… Thump. That’s another catalogue landing on the door mat. It’s full of cool linen and toe-exposing sandals. New season, they claim. Don’t they know I’m sitting here with an extra cardi on and a sneaky little heater under my desk? I never look at them for very long, it […]
Ok, I admit I’m a snob
Natural fibres and proper coffee. Meals at the table and butter in a butter dish. Bed time stories and thank you letters. My fondness for these things is what, on occasion, the Panther of News has used as evidence of my snobbery.I poopoo this notion insisting that it’s just proof that I know what I […]
Family holidays – at large without a capsule wardrobe
Pan-icking about our holiday Was a time when my holiday packing might have resembled something from a magazine. You know – the top that goes from beach to bar and you tart it up by knotting your sarong in a different way and using your sunglasses as a necklace, or something. Once, in 45 years have […]