People may not be celebrating Halloween in the most traditional ways this year; trick o’ treating does seem off the cards for most. But I’m not going to let that stop me from embracing one of my favourite days…
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It’s half-term now, so I’ll be catching up on some much-needed sleep, and I think it’s safe to say that the last few months have been extraordinarily difficult on all of us. But as I haven’t written one of…
Beltane is the Gaelic May Day festival to celebrate being halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It’s traditionally held on 1 May and it’s both the peak of spring and the beginning of summer. Plus it…
So apologies for this post being very, very delayed. But I believe that it’s a travel post that will be able to help people for years to come, including when some people start booking their Hogmanay this summer. Traditionally,…
*** I was invited to The Three Cups Inn for free in exchange for a review. All opinions are forever my own. *** Just a few miles outside of York is the village of Stamford Bridge, most famous for…
When I was visiting Oslo earlier this year, disaster struck. My flight was canceled and there was nothing flying back to the UK until very late the next day. I will hold my hands up say that Ryanair did…
*** I was an invited guest of The Ivy*** I always leap at any chance to go to The Ivy. That’s probably why it’s where Lindsay and I went for my post-UK Citizenship ceremony drinks. So I was absolutely…
*** This was a complimentary meal in exchange for review, but all opinions are forever my own.*** I was absolutely delighted to be invited to the Hotel Du Vin Bistro in York to try their champagne afternoon tea. I…
When we were traveling around the Highlands, we did little to no planning on the towns and villages that we should visit. We knew we wanted to drive at our leisure and knew roughly where we wanted to pitch…
>>> We finished the run of ‘The Duchess of Malfi’. It was a frustrating, wonderful, exciting project to work on and I think that, in general, most people enjoyed it. The inevitable post-show blues set in but I’ll have…