A lifestyle blog
We love exploring, either close to home on an afternoon out, slightly further afield on a weekend away, or to a far flung destination picked because it happened to be on page 83 of the travel guide and we were asked to pick a number between 1 and 230.
We haven’t been away as a family this summer, but have spent our summer at home, with days out and some more local exploring. We have also spent quite a bit of time around the fire pit, toasting marshmallows, chatting late into the night. It is amazing how much more talking goes on when you turn the TV off. Who knew?! One of the questions that sparked the longest
Not Highclere as people often mis-hear, but Highcliffe Castle on Window Wednesday today The first clue we had were the ladies “of a certain age” occupying ever bench in the grounds. It wouldn’t have surprised me if they had a picnic and a Thermos hidden in their bags too because they certainly looked like this was a regular occurrence for them. Certainly in the summer, anyway. 4pm on a
Window Wednesday and it is London this week, not all of it, obviously, but the view from my parent’s apartment. Samuel Johnson famously said that “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life” and he wasn’t wrong. Though the other way round is not necessarily the same thing at all. This week on Window Wednesday it is the window that made me think about how
Waterside Holiday Park sits just outside the seaside town of Weymouth, on the Dorset Coast. On the bit of England known as the Jurassic coast, with views out to Portland and its lighthouse called Bill. Not that I knew any of this before Waterside invited us to come down and stay with them for the weekend, you understand. And if I am honest, we still don’t know anymore than
For Window Wednesday this week I am featuring this little gem: Mr Fogg’s Gin Parlour. Mr Fogg’s is an old fashioned gin parlour that feels like an 18th century front room, right in the heart of London, tucked away between Leicester Square and Covent Garden tube stations, with a bar serving gin and afternoon tea. I had been meaning to meet up with a friend when I was next in
A rare blog from me, but I thought I would give you my perspective on our recent weekend away, before T gives you hers later in the week. Waterside Holiday Park invited us to come and try one of their new Safari Tents and T picked the first weekend in July, pretty much at random. Well, it was after exams had finished so there shouldn’t be a reason why
Sandham Memorial Chapel is one of those unexpected gems that you wouldn’t know existed unless you had done your homework. You can’t even really see it from the road, other than a sign on the pavement, and a car park across the road featuring the National Trust logo. Mr B and his parents had visited a few years ago but I had been working so in search of something
The more I hear about Croatia the more I really want to visit. And right now I really need a holiday. I mean like I really need a holiday. I am exhausted and we don’t have a holiday booked this year (I am not counting the week in France at Easter, or the week in Malta coming up in September) so I am craving a stay at the
Okay so it not so much an actual window I am featuring on Window Wednesday this week but the metaphorical window that let’s you view the £5.4 million roof restoration project of The Vyne’s roof. We have been to the Vyne before since it is one of our closest National Trust houses and has not only a gorgeous house to venture into, but also stunning grounds and gardens. Mr B and
It was pretty much a case of sticking a pin in the map on Sunday morning when we woke up in London and decided to stop off for a walk before heading home. Though the map was actually a book called “Secret London” and the pin was Mr B’s thumb as he flicked through the index. Chiswick House, unsurprisingly is in Chiswick, and is a House that
Not what you expect a National Trust house to look like, and certainly not one that I that would be featuring on my sporadic lately weekly post about my love of windows. As you know, I do love windows as they can perfectly frame a shot, can give you a glimpse of a world beyond them, or indeed be the focus themselves. This has to be the first National
I joked on Twitter the other day that with the announcement of the general election this summer, and the deepening Brexit debacle I was seriously thinking about running away for a couple of months and hiding in a cave. I was only joking but off the back of a week in France where I had been reminded how much I love Europe I did begin to think about having