I love Italy. Strangely, it always compares favourably to the area of London we live in, we are in the bit between Lewisham and Deptford. Now check out the photo of Lake Fiastra – I’m the dot in the water…
What we hadn’t anticipated was the attention gemelli (twins) attract in a country like Italy. James was buying Anna an ice cream in the local bar when a lady came running in shouting “Guarda, guarda i gemelli inglesi”. We couldn’t walk down the road More »
I’m off to Italy for a holiday on Monday morning first thing and can’t wait. James and Anna are currently in (Wonderful, wonderful) Copenhagen as James is conducting a concert over there. The programme is the American Songbook so I’ve loved listening to him learning his scores – some fantastic original orchestrations (they don’t arrange them like that anymore!).
However, he was most definitely in the dog house a couple of weeks ago when he checked his contract More »
One of the advantages of having young children is they provide you with the perfect excuse to go and see films you might otherwise be embarrassed to be seen at. This leads me nicely onto a review in the Times for Toy Story 3 which I read. It said something along the lines of:
It’s just a story about some toys. But what a story, and what toys! More »
BBC Proms in the Park 2009, Salford
We have a bright red double buggy that sits permanently on the pathway up to our front door. It can just about go through the door at a push, but takes the paint off the hallway and obviously once you’ve pushed it in, you are literally caught between the buggy and a hard place, so we have taken to parking it outside the front door on fine days but using a bike lock to attach it to our fence. Well, we do live a stones throw from Deptford!
I woke up this morning to discover the buggy hadn’t been nicked. Oh no, just the bicycle lock. The thief clearly doesn’t have twins so kindly left the buggy behind. Does that mean I should buy a padlock to lock the bicycle lock more securely to the fence before attaching the buggy to the bicycle lock. Ridiculous.
I’ve uploaded a couple more live dates on the website and I’m glad to say the Proms in the Park is confirmed More »
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