I promised Rose a visit to somewhere with a butterfly house this summer, so yesterday I took her to Butterfly World (via a stop off at Tevye...

We are not a sports oriented family and rarely watch sport on TV, but I have always loved watching the Olympics. When the 2012 Olympics w...

Tevye is a true Cockney - born in Whitechapel, within the sound of Bow bells. Before meeting friends for lunch last weekend we had time to t...

Last Sunday Tevye and I spent the day together in London. Quite why it has taken me a week to get round to posting pictures I'm not sure...

Phew! All assignments completed and in the post (or mail, if you are in the US!). I feel as though I now have some breathing space ... to re...

1. The next three weeks are going to be hairy. I have a short piece of assessed work, an essay and a report to write for my course. That is ...

Rose celebrated her 6th birthday on Friday. And then again on Sunday with a party for her school friends. We ended up with 13 small people a...

You see, I have been reading, just not blogging, so I'm going to shove all of the four books I have read recently into one catch up post...

We are having a cold, wet and miserable spring here, but it finally stopped raining at the weekend and Tevye, Rose and myself went on a tri...

Whew! Life is whizzing past at quite a rate! I am settling into working pretty much full time (I get Friday afternoons off at the moment) an...

I meant to do this neatly and post yesterday to coincide with St. George's day, but it didn't happen. Rather bizarrely for a co...

This pretty much sums up all you need to know about marmite.

Fashion is not a topic that comes up often on this blog, but I went on a major clothes shopping expedition last Saturday and can't resis...

Marmite on hot buttered toast ... Marmite sandwiches ... Marmite flavoured crisps (potato chips) ... Marmite flavoured cashew nuts .....

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: A Novel by Deborah Moggach My rating: 3 of 5 stars One advantage of a long weekend suffering from a col...

One of the pieces I played in my orchestra concert a couple of weeks ago was Elgar's Enigma Variations , which is one of the best loved...

Letters From the Trenches: A Soldier of the Great War by Bill Lamin My rating: 4 of 5 stars A quick and easy read, this book is a spin ...

Linds suggested in the comments to my England post that I set this series up with a Mister Linky so that other people can join in. I have n...

Knitting Around the World: A Multistranded History of a Time-Honored Tradition by Lela Nargi My rating: 2 of 5 stars I bought this book...

A combination of spring and the upcoming Diamond Jubilee made me think it would be nice to do a series of England themed posts about things...