Anyone for Tennis? Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. – Arthur Ashe Wimbledon gave the world the Wombles and Wimbledon football club. But most people will know my hometown for just one thing; Tennis. People… Read More »TRAVEL
Moving on? “I think I’m quite ready for another adventure” – Bilbo Baggins (The Lord of the Rings) With every international move, my dad would always say the same thing to me before we went; “Happy Landings”, a throwback to his years of working in… Read More »TRAVEL
Fa una bella Figura L’eleganza è nel nostro modo di essere più che nell’abito che indossiamo (Elegance is more in our way of being than in the dress we wear) Travel can be a great teacher We’ve been learning about Fa una Bella Figura.… Read More »TRAVEL
The Staycation “By plane, by train, by boat – it doesn’t matter as long as I can travel.” We just got back from the coast. Like most, it’s been many months since we’ve travelled anywhere. I’d asked PKP where he wanted to go… Read More »TRAVEL
Backstory “Travel As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place” My first job was in a film studio was when I was 15. I spent 13 years after that… Read More »TRAVEL
Flower Power “In a world full of roses, stand out like a dandelion in the middle of a green, plush lawn!” ― June Stoyer The word Dandelion is from the French ‘dent de lion’, “lion’s tooth,” referring to the shape of its… Read More »FOOD
Fiadoni Buona Pasqua (Happy Easter) It started with Fiadoni The night before Easter I asked PKP “would you like Fiadoni tomorrow…”You know those little cheesey pastries that I made last year, the traditional Abbruzese ones, that are eaten over Easter. I had him at ‘little… Read More »FOOD
March in March “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes…’Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on” – Barack Obama March in March were a series of political protests which were held in cities… Read More »SLOW
Borneo “The land is sacred. It belongs to the countless numbers who are dead, the few who are living and the multitudes of those yet to be born” Penan, Sarawak, Malaysia At the moment, while few of us are travelling, we can all… Read More »TRAVEL
Here comes the sun “Here comes the sun And I say, it’s all right” Our last full winter was in Liverpool, 2006. We’ve enjoyed 13 years of warm weather since then, travelling to Sri Lanka and living in the U.A.E, South Africa, Kenya and Indonesia. We… Read More »TRAVEL