Drag Superstar Courtney Act Comes to Brighton

Celebrity Big Brother winner and drag superstar Courtney Act is the exciting star of the Brighton…

Stale Bread? Yummy Bread & Butter Pudding Recipe

Talk about historic, I thought this desert probably originated out of necessity during one of the…

Same View – Different Light

In 1992 we moved to this magical place in South Africa – The Valley of a…

Ightham Mote, Kent. Why is it pronounced so strangely?

By Lyn Funnell We visited the National Trust property Ightham Mote yesterday. I had been corrected…

Gareth Butterfield tests the new Skoda Fabia 130

By Gareth Butterfield  Take a look around this new top-of-the-range Skoda Fabia without having it explained…

London Celebrates Marilyn Monroe’s 100th Birthday

Rightly so, there are several events lined up in Hollywood to mark what would have been…

Riveting Regents Opera’s Salome

By Ranjit Shergill York Hall in Bethnal Green, East London was the venue for Richard Strauss’s…

Beachy Head Lighthouse Challenge

It’s almost here again – the annual Beachy Head Lighthouse Challenge. The Challenge is organised each…

Bodiam Castle

By Lyn Funnell We chose Bodiam Castle for our next National Trust visit. Bodiam Castle was…

The Goddess Queen Calypso and her captivating love for Greek hero Ulysses

It is curious and it is quirky but nevertheless totally factual. Anybody who was anybody in…