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La Dolce Vita

Been doing some major sightseeing, mostly by walking everywhere. I think you get a better feel of a place by walking and seeing what the locals are up to. Plus, I like burnishing my map-reading skills. Google maps you say? Pah!, we’ll see how good that is when you get led through the Tiber rather […]

La Bella Roma

Dear readers, I am sorry that I have neglected you in a shameful fashion but I have been sunning myself in Rome. I couldn’t take the wretched cold one more minute so I managed to wangle a work/birthday/inspiration trip to Rome instead. It was glorious – it was warm and sunny and italian. From the […]

It Ain’t Easy Being Green

Kermit the Frog had that right. My favourite story of the week? The plastic-munching Coral. Scientists have discovered that the coral in the Pacific reefs, far from dying out rapidly due to pollution of the seas with plastic microbeads, have shown a preference for the wretched stuff as they appear to love its taste. They […]

By The Pricking Of My Thumbs

  A perfectly sunny, glorious London Sunday. Just when we had all given up on the weather for this year. England, England, quite contrary. I was staying in Twickenham which I now realise was a big mistake. Have you ever been to a place that gives you the heebie-jeebies? The last time it happened to […]

Wonder, Wonder, Wonder, Wonder….

So, I’ve been having root canal on my one and only filling. My dentist got so excited by the fact that I have only one filling that I became rather worried….. but that’s a story for another day 🙂 Anyhoo, it has been fascinating. I love everything about it, from the snazzy dental instruments that […]