The summers are hot and full of activities! Click HERE to see 2025's trip to Sicily and the Auvergne, HEREfor 2024 (Europe), HERE for 2023 (Sicily, Paris), .HERE for 2022 (Amsterdam and Abruzzo), HERE for 2021 (Scotland, Paris, Kent), HERE for 2020 (Calabria and National Trusts), HERE for 2019 (London and Abruzzo), HERE for 2018 (Budapest, Le Marche, and Northern Ireland), HERE for 2017 (Paris and London), HERE for 2016 (festival and Chaps), HERE for 2015 (reunion and wedding), and HERE for 2014 (meeting the stars).
Blooming sights at our local National Trust house.
National Trust, homemade chocolate and hazelnut cookies like the ones we found in Paris, The Russell-Cotes gallery in Bournemouth, Boscombe Pier, and the annual wisteria and pink shirt photo
I first discovered Cicely Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies when I bought my mother a framed print many years ago. I didn’t realise that she was a local artist. Her work was on display at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum in Bournemouth.
Top left: The importance of a clear font and the comical placement of a holly serif. The other photos are details of work from the Rusell-Cotes gallery.
I branched out and sold baked goods at the St Denys Carnival this year. Other photos are from Winchester. Founded in 1382, Winchester College is the oldest continuously operating school in England.
Winchester sights
I performed Fauré's Requiem with lockdown hero Gareth Malone at Winchester College. He confided to me that he would be appearing as the Sherriff on Tuesday at Park Theatre's Whodunnit Unrehearsed 4 in London. We're going to see the show for my birthday on Friday.
