Let's say Grace

Well here I am sitting upstairs looking at a lovely slice of orange and poppyseed cake and sipping real leaf just like mother used to make ...

Well, today is a special day for me: 30 years ago today I watched my father die. It's a milestone, like the year that meant I'd l...

This is the tearoom that's got me blogging again! Sadly my computer is having a moment and I can't show you the gorgeous sunny phot...

There's only one Milkmaid. Place of happy childhood memories, queueing up the stairs for a seat in the restaurant with my mother and fat...

I wish, I really wish I had taken pictures of this one! Then I discovered a link to a Shields Gazette article with rather nice pics attached...

As you will know, in this blog names are changed to protect the guilty. It would be impossible to do that for this piece as too many guilty...

Looking back nostalgically over last week spent in Devon, Exeter comes top of the sighs league.  I love the city because I was born there an...