London Inspiration?!

I love home décor magazines! Not the ones with lots of ads in, but ones with real, affordable, pleasant-on-the-eye ideas; and most important...

by Doug Street:        Everything in the garden was lovely. The flowers were in full bloom, and the perfume was exotic. The trees were in ...

In a previous blog I mentioned I was writing my life story – probably till I die, so it won’t be published very soon! I’ve now got to page 7...

      For the month of May I’ll be filling in for a student tutoring primary age children in English – should be fun!   The ages range f...

       I don’t like companies who get hold of my mobile number and then try and sell me something I don’t want, or pretend they know what I ...

          A few years ago I bought a writers magazine for my daughter who was about to embark on a university course in creative writing. Ho...

There is always the danger, when researching a family history, of finding the proverbial ‘skeleton in the cupboard’. Fortunately, I don’t th...

This is a follow up to "Argghgh! London Traffic!" So the first trip to destination 8.9 miles from home through London at 10am Su...

Today it took us 75 minutes to drive 8.9 miles (14.3km)! That’s about from our old home in Howick, South Africa, to my daughter’s home in Hi...

Today was a beautiful Spring day: the skies were blue, the sun was bright, the daffodils nodded and the banks of the River Thames were inacc...

One nice thing about England are the many ‘public footpath’ signs, leading through farmlands, moors, alongside rivers and through woodlands....

So we were driving the 100miles back from a day out, windscreen wipers on, radio on, and I began to think ….. who was the first guy who call...

So Tuesday we did the family history tour! A little while ago I discovered that Dave’s maternal ancestors had lived and worked in Chelsea, a...

I know what I was doing 30 years ago today! 30 years ago today was a Sunday. It was the Sunday that the Lakeside Baptist Church was offici...

                 A short British TV program tonight aired the question of whether the children of today are too pressurised. Is there too mu...

Granny at Surfer's Corner, Muizenberg   Once upon a time, a long time ago, when my children were just two bricks and a tikkie h...