On a balmy Sunday evening at St Andrews, 28-year-old Cameron Smith (pictured on the home page) was unflustered by the raucous crowds rooting for the m...
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Fallow is a period of time when nothing much gets done. As a restaurant, Fallow is a place in London’s West End in which quite a bit of dining g...
Read MoreFallow quite dear
The photo of Heathrow Terminal 5 on the home page looks, appropriately, a little like a view from a prison cage. And there seems to be no end in sight...
Read MoreDistinctly not flights of fancy
While the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations have been hogging the headlines, this past Friday and Saturday nights at the Emirates Stadium in North Lo...
Read MoreFlowers and the reign
First off, I should say that the heading to this blog is not alliterative. The town is pronounced something like ‘Hania’ – the ̵...
Read MoreThe charms of Chania
After a gap of over 10 years since her previous book, Monica Ali has produced her fifth novel. Love Marriage (see the cover on the home page) is a vib...
Read More…and not forgetting the sex
The Phantom of the Open – I can see the wordplay they’re going for but I think somehow it doesn’t quite work – tells the story of...
Read MoreA true underdog tale of comedy and pathos
I can’t remember how many times I have been to Paris (I do recall the first time was in 1976) but I returned on Tuesday for the first time since...
Read MoreTurbulence in the City of Light
Well, that’s Easter pretty much out of the way! Have you got out of the airport yet? Of course, it may be that you and your family had no plans ...
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