On Tuesday I spent a fun day at Hampton Court Palace. Now I have to confess that it takes very little enticement to get me to spend a day in...

The other day I toddled along to Kew Gardens with Jenny, one of my besties, to see the Kew Gardens Thai Orchid Festival . It was all her ide...

Last weekend we went to visit our besties, P, A, S & A, down in lovely Dorset. Whilst the welcome was warm, the weather was cold. Reall...

Happy New Year! Gosh it's hard to believe that Christmas and New Year's Eve have been and gone. It all sped by so quickly. W...

We're off to Fibre East tomorrow. You can find us in the Leicester Marquee. We've got our fingers crossed for nice weather. E...

Now I have to 'fess up to having driven past this place dozens of times, dashing back and forth from the Dublin ferry, without ever stop...

Work on Beaumaris Castle, the castle on the fair marsh, started on 18 th April 1295 … and they still haven’t got the place finished. It...

One of our favourite days out in Devon in July is the annual Mid Devon Show. I'm a big fan of country shows that celebrate all the wonde...

On Friday we had an unexpectedly enjoyable lunch break whilst we were bombing up the M6toll on our way to the ferry. We took a 10 minute det...

We're going to Fibre East! Come and join us! I'd love to see you there. You can find us in the Romney Marq...

On Friday morning Emi, the WonderDog and I blew town super early (in the wagon and rolling by 4:15 a.m.) on our way to Ireland. I’m not su...

Happy Elizabeth Day! On this day, 17 th November, 1558 Elizabeth I, the great Virgin Queen of England, ascended the throne on the deat...

We've been having the most amazing autumn  pea souper fogs. Travelling back from Belfast to London on Sunday night was a little bit hair...

As it's almost Halloween, and, as I'm getting into a really  spooktastic vibe, I thought I'd share some photos of one of my...

Have you ever visited a place, and come away with the view that it really ought  to be haunted? Well, for me, Corfe Castle down in Dorset is...

Forde Abbey, Dorset This is undoubtedly one of the prettiest houses in England. It's grand, but not in a draughty, haughty, pretent...

I've fallen seriously in love with the dahlia. Sadly I don't have any growing in my own garden, but I'm beginning to feel very e...

And, nope, I haven't forgotten how to spell beach ! This beech hut  is so named, not because of any close proximity to a beach, but be...

School's out for the half-term hols and we've blown town for a week in the country. En route we visited some friends in Bath, and on...

Sometimes Mr B comes up with a good idea for somewhere interesting to visit. And Space City, or le Cité de l'Espace , was one such choic...