In an English Country Garden
We stayed up there, somewhere, around 20 of us in varying waves over the week, for a long-planned family reunion. The cousins practiced their best...
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To Physio and Beyond
King’s Cross station, like the rest of London, has been quite ludicrously poshed up, although, reassuringly, there are still the same works underway that there...
One Benefit of Learning English in Chinese Schools
Handwriting has never been a strength of Zac’s. He’s a lefty, and started writing aged three. Then, because current British thinking is that young children...
How Many Countries Have You Visited?
I’m sometimes asked in interviews, and recently included in a bio, the number of countries I’ve visited. You’d think “How many countries have you visited?”...
Next Time I’m Getting A Flu Shot
Until, ooh, about six weeks ago, I was one of those irritating people who’d bang on and on about their marvelous immune system and how...
A Big Day Out
How much of London can you see in a single day? Armed with a London Pass and the very best intentions to get out of...
The Friday Photo: Tower Bridge
We’ve spent most of this week being tourists in London, which used to be our home town. And Tower Bridge, the late Victorian edifice that...
Travel Planning 2012 — Or, Getting My Sh*t Together, Sort Of
I had high hopes for our sojourn in Blighty. By approximately, umm, now, Z and I would have completed a whirlwind tour of the UK,...
A Beach. England. January. Are We Mad?
There is something extremely English about a trip to the beach in winter. Our beaches, like our weather, our teeth and vast swathes of our...
5 Things To Do With Kids In London
I wasn’t born in London. But I lived in London from when I was five until I was seventeen, and then again from 21 to...