Well, we’re back. I can’t pretend we’ve suffered terribly as ash refugees. I’ve just been looking at those pictures of poor people sleeping on the floor of Bangkok airport ( I hope they had some Cillit Bang to give the place a good going over before lying down) and I had loads of texts and …
We are having the time of our lives in Barbados – seeing the wild shores of Bathsheba, rummaging through the hot shops of Bridgetown, eating snapper, mahi-mahi and breadfruit every night as the ocean laps behind us. There is just one leeetle tiny problem ….. somewhere, thousands of miles away in Europe, there is some volcano …
Well, my dears, I’m off to sun myself for a while, or at least to drench myself in factor 50 in the shade while the children frolic. Back in ten days. I’m missing you already …..have fun too! DDxx
If you’re casting around for things to do on a wet Bank Holiday, then look no further than the movie Nanny McPhee. This is the lovely film premier I was invited to a couple of weeks ago, then embargoed from talking about. An embargo at my dangerous mid-40s age is a dicey thing – there …
I got home all fired up to take a picture of our Easter tree to show you. This is a little ritual we adopted while living in Belgium. Basically, you take any old twiggy branch, and festoon it with lots of fluffy day-glo chickies and eggies and Eastery bits. When we first arrived back in …