I had the opportunity to write a small feature in ARGO Magazine, the magazine for the Hellenic Society.
Category Archives: Lifestyle
Osborne House Isle of Wight
Osborne House was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s holiday home.
The royal family usually visited four times each year. Victoria and Albert tried to spend their birthdays together at Osborne, as private, family celebrations.
Isle of Wight
Lob Haircut
We are just past our ankles in September and it is time for a change.
Filled with bold ambition to edge towards a slightly different look, and tired of sporting long lacklustre hair, I went for a lob at the hairdresser.
I wish I could say it was down to some shrewd fashion forecasting on my part, that I went in armed with a scrapbook full of notions of a mane designed to rouse the motions, but, before I could get comfortable in my push-up chair, my hairdresser simply barked ‘Lob!’ at me. Continue reading Lob Haircut
Castle Howard
Castle Howard took over 100 years to build.
It is the private home of the Howard family. Continue reading Castle Howard
Trip to York
This was news to me: it takes less than two hours to get to York from London King’s Cross.
So it’s the perfect place for a mid-week break.
Staycation Material
Tunbridge Wells – The Pantiles
I often struggle with picking a ‘favourite’.
But I think Tunbridge Wells might be my favourite part of Kent.
RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2016
My day stomping around RHS Hampton Court Flower Show press day has kindled new horticulture goals.
Notes on Perfume: Chanel Cristalle
Never has the challenge of writing about perfume been so clear as with this one.
