Here’s a fun fact; Bicester Village is the UK’s second top attraction for Chinese tourists. Yep, apparently cut price designer handbags are only slightly less interesting than watching the changing of the guard outside Buckingham Palace (which still reigns supreme as the top tourist spot). I was totally lured in by Bicester Village; so many people go on about […]
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Oliver’s First Birthday
A few weeks ago Sunny and I were invited to a first birthday party and christening. I thought attending friends’ weddings made me feel old, but first birthdays? They make me feel flippin’ ancient! It was gorgeous though, our friend Hannah (and Oliver’s Mum) had organised every tiny detail; from making hundreds of teeny felt […]
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Ilfracombe’s Bathing Tunnels
On the way home from West Country weekend, we stopped in at Ilfracombe – which until then I’d only heard of in passing as a seaside pit-stop on an oldie road trip. It’s a pretty, typically Victorian seaside town with painted buildings and doors. We didn’t have time to properly explore or do it justice […]
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Dachshund Dunkers
I need to just stop buying every unusual cookie cutter that I stumble across (…and you thought the Lobster one was weird…). I think I must be subconsciously channeling some inner grandma who’s mission is to have the most diverse cookie cutter collection on the planet – y’know, just in case a situation arises where Dachshund-shaped cookies are 100% necessary. Meh, […]
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Flying Without Fear
So, here’s a personal paradox of mine; I love travelling (beaches, cities, deserts, mountains, tundra… let’s go!) but… I’m absolutely terrified of flying. It doesn’t stop me from making travel plans, but the minute the booking confirmation lands in my inbox the usual anxiety starts to creep in. I can relegate it to the back of […]
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