I read an article in The Guardian this week entitled “Never Drink Red Wine with Fish: 10 Famous Food Rules You Can Absolutely Ignore” by Felicity Cloake. It set out to question several well-established ‘rules’ on cooking, such as having your pasta water ‘as salty as...
Mission: Identify twelve search keywords that would lead others to find you online. Go. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Am waiting… Okay, two keywords. Can you come up with two? I know, right? It’s really hard. But that’s what I have to do as part of a website redesign project...
Breaking News: my loved ones are American! It’s been brought to my attention that my husband of thirty-three years and my adult children may in fact be … American. I suppose I should thank the World Cup for opening my eyes to this but at the moment I’m still in shock...
October 2022 may have been the most ‘normal’ month I’ve had in a long time. All that happened was the shortest UK prime ministership in history, a family run-in with COVID, and the arrival of our first guests from America since we moved back to England over two years...
June sees the United Kingdom coming down off the highs of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. No matter your views of the Monarchy, seventy years in a job means Queen Elizabeth deserves a street party or two, as far as I’m concerned. The country proudly showed...
Today is the second anniversary of my leaving the United States for the last time to return home to England. I’ll be spending the day, in fact the whole week, excitedly preparing for my neighbourhood Jubilee party. For those of you living under a rock, the British...
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