In January I was contacted by the lovely Pretty Nostalgic Magazine. They asked me if I would write a travel piece on Norwich, a journey round it’s sights, sounds, smells and it’s independent boutiques and vintage treasures. I love the ethos of Pretty Nostalgic magazine. It produces beautiful fashion spreads and interesting articles and it

Christmas officially started this week as far as I’m concerned! Don’t worry. I’m not so forward as to have done anything so foolish as put my Christmas tree up in November (I’ll be doing that tomorrow). But on Tuesday night I took a trip to Birmingham to visit their amazing Frankfurt Christmas Market. I went

There’s no time like Autumn to take a trip to the seaside. All the Summer crowds are gone and you can often have the place completely to yourself, while still enjoying fish and chips on a windswept pier. I think there’s something quite melancholy about the seaside out of season. But in a good way

I’ve been away for a few days. This time it was for our wedding anniversary and we pushed out several incredibly leaky boats to book ourselves a couple of nights in the super glamorous Hintlesham Hall in Suffolk. Our kitchen and bathroom have been building sites for months, so we felt we deserved a touch

In the second of two immensely ill-timed pre planned breaks I spent last weekend on the remote Scottish Island of Jura. How I ended up there is a long story that can probably be reduced to “I won a competition”, there’s more to it than that, but frankly it’s not very interesting. Jura isn’t somewhere

The problem, when you book things months in advance, is that you never know what will be happening when the date finally comes around! Thus it was, that last Friday, despite having only 3 days to get out of my rented house and my kitchen still being in boxes in my dining room I found

It’s nice to have a bit of downtime. Everything is so busy all the time and go, go, go. It’s hard to find space to think. But last Friday I got a chance for a bit of downtime as I went on a punting trip with new arrivals in Norwich the Norwich Punting Company to

Ok, this is the last time I will be boring regaling you with stories and photos from the Orient Express. Promise. It really is quite a short story, but one with some nice surprises. The trip back to London was to be accompanied by a glass of champagne and a four course dinner with half