Before I went down to Dublin for the Irish awards presentation last week I spent a couple of days out on the west coast with my cousin who lives in the far west of County Leitrim. Leitrim has probably the lowest population of any county in Ireland and does spend much of the year shrouded …
Please do go to Jordan – it is safe – and amazing…..
‘Jordan…. You’re not going to Jordan, are you? Is it safe?’ A question that is asked all too often of prospective tourists. And a question that, along with the thousands of refugees massed on the border with Syria, is creating havoc in the Jordanian economy. In a country so heavily dependent on tourism, over the …
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Age-ism? Rubbish…..
Catching up, as I always seem to be, on last week’s copy of The Week as this weeks’ copy plops through letterbox, I noted a piece on ‘Patient C’ – the 50-year old who was supported by the Court of Protection’ in her decision not to have life-saving dialysis as she was not interested in …
Arwen the gender bender….
Cat lovers will have already logged the arrival of Arwen a few weeks ago – so this is for them. Cat haters – turn away now…. Arwen has come to replace the late lamented Frodo and, although currently only a small fraction of Frodo’s size, is not doing a bad job! For those who know …
Steaming with the mozzies in the Italian hills!!
Driving through the rolling hills of Le Marche above Ancona is truly like driving through a Renaissance painting – every hill topped with a tiny pink brick village clustered round a fifteenth century church, every hairpin bend opening up some new vista of vineyards and olive trees and newly mown hay fields. We had gone …
All a-buzz in Belsize Park….
It was the South End Green Fair today – a generally very pleasant and jolly affair with lots of goodies to eat – only slightly dampened by being the first day on which we have had any serious rain for about a month! (Do think the weather gods could have been bit kinder…) However we …