Day 2 - General Rules Day 3 - Superfoods Day 4 - Chocolate Inspired by Linds at Rocking Chair Reflections (and wanting to keep up my...

When we got back from our holiday at the beginning of the month I found myself struggling to find books to read to Rose. She seems to ha...

By the time we got to Messina we were feeling all shore-tripped out. Tevye and I both went for a stroll round, taking it in turns so that th...

The weather ... "Wet and windy with gales and some very heavy downpours" (BBC Weather) I am wearing  ... Grey trousers, black v-...

The day after Dubrovnik was spent on the Greek island of Kefalonia, best known as the location of Louis de Berniere's book  Captain Core...

I have been intending for a long time to say more about my job as an archivist, so here are seven archive related quick takes. 1. For the la...

The weather ... alternating between early autumn and late summer. Hard to know what to wear and I have found myself alternately boiling and...

I had been looking forward to visiting the Old City of Dubrovnik, but although it is a lovely place I  found it slightly disappointing. Part...

This was my third visit to Venice - I went with Tevye before Helen was born, and we took Helen and Marie for a day trip during a holiday in ...

1.  A local radio station has a slot on Friday mornings where people can phone or text in a description of their weekend in three words. ...

After two more sea days our second port was the Croatian island of Korcula and its pretty little walled city, also called Korcula. The ...

... this glorious British summer. Not glorious weather, which for much of the summer has done its damp and miserable worst - though it did s...

It is nearly a year since I last posted one of these, but they are both a great way of keeping a diary and a discipline to stop me neglecti...

After two sea days cruising from Southampton past France, across the Bay of Biscay, down the coast of Portugal and into the Mediterranean, o...

I think a month may be the longest I have ever gone without posting. My excuse is that a couple of posts never made it past the half-written...

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...