As my long-time readers know, I messed up my knee pretty bad in something the family refer to as “The Gin-cident” Unfortunately being a stubborn old bird, I didn’t get treatment until too late and have caused lasting damage. This improves and declines with regularity and there are periods where I do not need…

Two months ago I was lucky to win two tickets to see The Mousetrap in London. I wrote a blog about the marvellous evening, which you can read here if you fancy it. However, it wasn’t the only thing we did in London that day, as alongside my travelling companion, Smita, we were ensconced…

Last year I wrote about a huge haul of shoes that I got from Lulu Hun in a massive sale via Collectif. I managed to get around 15 pairs of shoes for an absolute pittance as they were 50% off and I also had a 50% off voucher at the same time, which made…

So as many of you know, I was heading off to Chicago for a ten-day wedding fest for a very good friend of mine and his intended. The flight was at 1000 on Thursday morning and given that I would have to be there three hours in advance AND get to Heathrow, I opted…

Regular readers will know of a recent post I wrote about flying across the pond to a wonderful wedding in Chicago. If you missed it, you can read it all here. Well, the flight was uneventful, the arrival hot and humid and the ten days spent in Chi-Town were positively sublime. I will write…