We saw The Harry Potter Exhibit, for which the advertisements did absolutely no justice at all. We were told it would take at least 3 hours to surf the sets and hubs and I looked at each other and went,

“Right!”

We’d done the vatican on our honeymoon in a couple of hours, not ones to loiter!

This time it was pouring with rain during breakfast. We all wore better than canvas shoes, our son borrowed his father’s Doc Martens, I wore boots with everyone else. Only cameras that could fit in pockets ventured out on the journey today and we headed to Camden Town. We walked from Brixton station to the…

As pre-arranged the evening before we got up as usual and journalled and devoted before our son arose at 830am and ate a full English breakfast enjoying the English bacon, “Second only to none…” he said, tucking in appreciatively. This is a summary of unplanned Day Two. We walked to the station, dry but under…

My school teacher daughter decided to go back to college under her own steam. Don’t we just love the independence we have instilled in our offspring? They go to college, buy a car, get a job, move out, move a long way away and over the course of a couple of years decide college isn’t…

Eighty eight years ago today my mother was born. She never was one to make much fuss over this special day. As children we would be taken to The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden to see a play, opera or ballet to mark the occassion.  There would be a Fuller’s cake for tea, a…

Thank God our oldest finally decided that it would be worth coming to see the parentals, if only for a week. Now he’s seen the streets we wander, the woods I traverse and the compost heap I visit each night. He used our American miles because his BA ones were a rip off…he owes us…

It rains a lot here in England and do you want to hear something funny? We are on a hosepipe ban at the moment because the country is in the grip of a drought!  Says who?  Nature went, “Ha ha!” and for the last month has showered us liberally with a steady drizzle to prove…

I had three sets of people tell me my external hard drive was a hopeless case!  But when I held it to my ear it whirred peacefully and calmly without a clunk or a grunt. A little man in a little IT shop told me to consider my hard drive as a glass full of…

I’ve always called on hubs to help me with anything to do with wires and wiring.  He is a whiz at diverting music to any room in the house and can rig up a printer with a computer before I’ve even finished getting rid of the packaging let alone broken out the instruction manual. I…

When I first arrived at my mother’s flat, after she passed away, I  went through the drawers and cupboards, wardrobes and file cabinets to do an initial sweep of clearing out. We had moved her a couple of years earlier but nothing had been sorted, just packed in boxes and stored in the garage. I…