If you follow me regularly you may have read about a wonderful stay at a stately home in Cambridge called Anstey Hall. Whilst it offers bed and breakfast, it doesn’t cater for evening meals. This was perfectly fine as there are certainly enough places to eat in Cambridge and we would hardly starve. However,…

The hubby can be a bit tricky to buy Christmas presents for and this past festive season, my Mum was stuck for ideas of what to purchase. Trying to help her out, I said that we were not really buying possessions. Trips, activity days, theatre performances etc were all good ideas as it meant…

So, there are a few of you out there that know my husband has been diagnosed with quite a serious eye condition. One that requires an operation at the world famous Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. Now, the operation he was due to have was booked in for early on a Thursday morning. He needed…

I had the pleasure of meeting the lovely Lynsey Le Keux at LondonEdge a few years ago. Standing at the trade fair with her equally lovely sister Diablo Rose we had a lovely natter about the wonderful vintage style make-up products that Le Keux offered. Since then I have lusted after one or two…

If you read me often you will know I have a new found love of vintage style spectacles all due to the the amazing ladies, Lauretta and Caroline over at Retropeepers. I took the plunge around 18 months ago when they offered to send me some glasses and it pretty much changed my life.…