To anyone out there worried about the prospect of taking a toddler on a long-haul flight, my best advice to you is this: don’t worry about the flight. Worry about the jet-lag, instead. Because, the thing is, all flights, no matter how long they seem, eventually have to end, don’t they? …
01. Even although it’s been a few years now since I last visited this part of the world – and, even although I’m not actually from here – coming back still feels a bit like coming home. The Ponderosa is still next to the Bargain World, opposite the iHOP with the …
OK, I know April is just a distant memory to most of you by now, but I’m really keen to do some more of the diary-style posts I used to write back in Ye Olde Days of this blog, and April seemed as good a place as any to start: mostly …
I‘m standing in Terry’s mum’s house for what I think will be the last time before it’s sold, and I’m looking at the ceiling light. It’s an ordinary kind of ceiling light: unassuming, maybe a little bit dated – nothing at all remarkable about it. But I remember last Christmas, when …
