April is a magical month in English woodlands. Although plenty of new growth can be found in March, it is not until this month that they

It has obviously taken me a while to get round to writing this post, but I do want to keep a little of our grand European road trip last...

* I was invited to Courchevel as part of a Press trip There is something about winter that lends itself well to an escape, isn't there?...

I think we have established that I am passionately in love with Sussex. I have lived here for over 20 years and - although I sometimes...

Great Dixter is (possibly) my favourite garden, anywhere. I mean to go more often, but it took until a very rainy October to make it...

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen that I was back at Elmley Nature Reserve recently for the opening event at their newly...

Somehow it is almost a month since I was in Venice. I wrote a post the first time I visited two years ago, and although I might update it...

About last weekend. What can I tell you? We had a perfect escape to beautiful part of Suffolk, a few minutes drive from the coastal town...

Earlier this week I visited Babington House in Somerset, on invitation to join them for the hotels twentieth birthday celebration. Set in...

It may have taken me a month to put this together, mainly because it's been such a hectic month, but I have been wanting to share the...

On a very warm midweek day, I visited Paris with my friend Catherine. Warm is an understatement, it was over 30º, which in a city feels...

this post is sponsored by British Airways Holidays I have mentioned more than once recently that I have itchy feet. Wanderlust. A desire...

Venice has been on my bucket list for a long time. After arranging a trip last year then having to rearrange it, altering who was...

A long weekend. An early autumn break after 9 long (and lovely) weeks of summer holidays with the constant companionship of my children,...

It is only a couple of weeks since Anna and I came back from our adventures on the Aegean Sea but already it feels like a distant memory,...

another place One hundred cast iron figures stand facing out to sea watching the tide which submerges most of them twice daily

Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson Recently I was...

The end of school term. Everyone is tired. Life has been a fast paced sprint for the past 7 weeks and we could all do with a moment or...