PLUS CA CHANGE , PLUS C’EST LA MEME CHOSE. James Macnaughton, my Father-in-Law, writes in a guest blog about how times are not so different today than over 30 years ago! It’s funny how one’s mind works, sometimes ! The …
What’s all the fuss about? We’re not Europeans!
Holidays are one thing, a week in Spain or Greece enjoying the sunshine, a food pilgrimage to Italy or a dash through France for an elegant weekend on the Riviera. Trips to Germany and Holland always make us smile, as …
Chickens and Hand Grenades
Chickens and Hand Grenades The first time I ever threw a hand grenade was quite a tense occasion….you are gripped with performance anxiety and quite rightly so! When you throw a cricket ball or a stone, they won’t kill you …
Longleat’s Tigers Are Grrrrrr-eat!!!!
Maybe I am having a mid-life crisis. I am 40 next birthday and so I am primed and ready for one. For the last year, I have been thinking a lot about freedom, independence, feminism, being a woman, the divine …
I Am Not ‘That Wife’
First, of all I have to tell you that I am not an ‘Army wife’. I am the estranged wife of an ‘air force’ pilot – a person who is the Royal Air Force. It’s a point that those not …