Sunday 19th December 2021 continues….. After collecting our luggage we walk through the coconut grove walkway to waiting taxis. To my surprise we bump into old friend Robin Worden who runs The Waterfront Hotel & Cafe in Bophut, he has just dropped clients off at the airport and thought he’d wait to see if weContinue reading “We Made It!”
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Escape to the Beach.
December 2021 Just before lockdown Nov 2020, thinking COVID would be a distant memory, our son in law decided he wanted to take his family to Thailand for Christmas 2021. Both our daughter and son in law are workaholics, our granddaughters both studying but also with part time jobs all needed a holiday. Last timeContinue reading “Escape to the Beach.”
New York continues…
Friday 26th November 2021 A last minute change of plans for today, James texts and asks us to pick up cream cheese, lox (smoked salmon) onion and tomato, they will pick up fresh bagels. We walk over to their place where we are to drive to old friend Craig Pogson’s home in Piedmont. A crazyContinue reading “New York continues…”
Emotional Journey continues
After the Dior exhibition we head back to the car, drive over the Brooklyn Bridge back through Chinatown to Soho to Lure Fishbar, it’s underground, enormous, shaped and designed like a boat with varnished wood panels, it’s packed. We meet up with the Wallick’s, Jim, Cathy & son Eric. James first met Jim when heContinue reading “Emotional Journey continues”
Emotional Journey November 2021
I’ve been quiet for a while as with everyone life has been quite different. Roger and I have been keeping busy with ‘Safe activities’, we are lucky to have outside space needing attention. Roger has resumed golf, playing mostly with our dear friend Kevin, occasionally with my bothers Martin & Murray. How my father wouldContinue reading “Emotional Journey November 2021”
Positives & Negatives of Lockdown & beyond
Apart from the odd occasion I have not been bored throughout this period of uncertainty. Like most people I have missed the social side but mainly lack of travel and being unable to see our children in the USA is the worst thing….sorry I do hark on about it. However on the positive side hearingContinue reading “Positives & Negatives of Lockdown & beyond”
My Lockdown No 3
Lockdown seems to go on for ever but I don’t seem to do much with all the time I have on my hands. Catching up on the phone or FaceTime with my girlfriends they all say the same thing… ” I don’t know what I do with my time it just goes”!!. Looking back overContinue reading “My Lockdown No 3”
Christmas Carols @ The Ribs of Beef
Sunday 20th December 2020. This should have been our Annual Carols night. Except COVID-19 has closed the pub. The phone and email are usually busy from mid August with enquiries about the date of this event despite it being always the Sunday before Christmas and it’s always advertised on our website. Years before social mediaContinue reading “Christmas Carols @ The Ribs of Beef”
My 9/11 Memory
Today marks 19 years since that terrible attack on the World Trade Centre in New York. It was a Tuesday – a warm September day. Roger & I were running Catton Old Hall our guest House. We had finished the guest rooms and were prepared for new guest arrivals. I was sitting in the officeContinue reading “My 9/11 Memory”
POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE
This morning 25th August, the press reveal that we are to be robbed of Land of Hope & Glory at the last night of the BBC proms! I could cry. I love the proms and only wish I had attended a live concert. Its bad enough to have to watch without a live audience, partContinue reading “POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE”
Liquid Tales 