One year on!
Well, it’s my 1st anniversary of writing my blog and I must say when I first started writing it, this time last year, I was petrified! One year on I am a changed person and I love it. I now wish…
Newark, fans and jugs
Last weekend I went to see my friend Lisa and stayed at her B&B in Newark, Compton House – it was just so nice to get out of London, albeit for 24 hours. Lisa’s B&B is a red bricked four-storey…
100K in 4 Days
Good weather always creates a holiday atmosphere! This past week we have been spoilt not only with good weather but also all the major sporting events taking place, the TV in the kitchen as been on more often than not. A…
Wimbledon, Laundry & Chocolate
This is the first year of Wimbledon Tennis being a week later – they changed the dates so as to give all the tennis players a longer rest between the Grand Slam tournaments of Paris Roland Gaross and Wimbledon. Let’s…
Rain, Rain Go Away!!!!
Well, it has been very wet few weeks at Parklands, we nearly had a flood the other week, the rain just came down in buckets off the roof and we were about 2 millimeters from the water pouring through the…
F&M and Tripadvisor
We had a delightful couple stay for four nights who were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary and it's lovely to see when guests really love the London experience, the history, the well-known sights and the friendliness of the people. They…
Chelsea, Gardens and Smoked Sugar
I look forward every year to The Chelsea Flower Show and it must have played with my conscience as I arranged at the end of last week to go with Ali to the Garden Centre at Banstead on Monday. We…
Heating, Builders and a visit from AO.com
Well, the weather this week has been warm by day and cold by night, so the heating was put back on at Parklands B&B during the night, allowing everyone to keep snug in bed. I hope this is the last…
Fromage, Vogue & TV
I had another appointment in Marylebone last Friday and invited a girlfriend to come with so that afterwards we could go out for lunch to The Fromagerie which I had blogged about a few weeks earlier. The food lived up to…
Summers Town
I almost feel that we have skipped Spring and gone straight into Summer. The weather has been so hot for this time of year, considering about 10 days ago we had hailstorms and sleet and it was freezing cold at…