My Life in England

Saturday in Kent Part Two: Sissinghurst Castle & The White Garden

May 13, 2013 LLG Travels

After our bluebell mission in King’s Wood on Saturday, our plan was to drive to Sissinghurst, to visit the Castle. This is one of my happy places, a National Trust-held estate where we visited frequently as children, whether to eat ice creams in the tea room, or to roam the grounds with weekend house guests.

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Saturday in Kent Part One: Bluebells in King’s Wood, Challock Forest

May 11, 2013 My Life in England

My dear friend MTFF was over from California and, try as we might, finding a time to meet was tricky. Until she suggested a Saturday date to drive to Kent to find bluebells. (You don’t get many bluebells to the pound in Santa Barbara.)

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London Life: The May Bank Holiday from The Corinthia Gym to the Radio Bar

May 7, 2013 My Life in England

My weekend guest Oh I did have the most lovely low key, relaxing, calm weekend. After falling sick, followed by a charity cake-baking marathon, I planned on setting aside the long weekend for napping, snacking, snoozing, reading and general pootling. Unfortunately the side effect of baking umpteen cakes, Brownies and flapjacks for eight hours is […]

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Life in England: Regent’s Park, a miserable ten days & Posetta Baddog…

May 6, 2013 My Life in England

I am writing this sitting in Regent’s Park, just a few blocks from my London flat. Propped up against a low iron railing, bordering a rose bed, my bare toes are wriggling in the grass. There’s a cherry tree above my head, and the breeze is sending petals fluttering down around me. Posetta Baddog is […]

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A Weekend in Northamptonshire

April 15, 2013 My Life in England

I promised my mother that I would help her move some stuff around her attic this weekend, and it seemed like a sensible time to also empty out my storage container in Banbury, where two trunks of books have been languishing since we sold the family home in the summer of 2011.

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LLG in London: The Bollinger Boat House at The Boat Race 2013

April 6, 2013 LLG Plays & Stays

Narnia, otherwise known as London in March, is a pretty chilly place to be. I felt for the Oxford & Cambridge crews at The Boat Race 2013 on the Thames at Putney. It was bitterly, bitterly cold. Luckily for me, I wasn’t huddled on the banks and bridges of the river for long, but snuggled […]

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An Easter Long Weekend in London. Part One.

April 1, 2013 My Life in England

Well, it’s Sunday night and I am tucked up in bed in London. Not France. Yesterday, Saturday, I was supposed to be on the 1410hrs Eurostar from St Pancras International to Paris Gare du Nord, and onwards from Gare Montparnasse to Chatellerault. I had five days booked away because my fifth Godchlld Isobel was due […]

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A Week in LLG: From The Dorchester to The Modern Pantry

March 30, 2013 My Life in England

I do love a short week: in the UK we get Good Friday as a national Bank Holiday. It’s as widely taken as Christmas, so London is super quiet with empty roads, and a lovely sense of calm in. (Because Monday is a public holiday too there is a mass exodus from the city.) The […]

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LLG in London: From Claridge’s to The York & Albany via a J Brand dinner & some sausage dog action

March 24, 2013 My Life in England

I’d like to be able to say that the ravishing branches of Magnolia in the arrangements at Claridge’s Hotel were an augury of Spring, but I would be blatantly lying, as there seems to be no hope of anything other than snow, sleet, driving rain and gusts of wind. Frankly, I’d like to emulate Posetta […]

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A Week in LLG: From Byron Burgers to an H&M Harlem Shake…

March 16, 2013 LLG Plays & Stays

It’s been a week punctuated by beautiful flowers. These arrived at the LLG office attached to the invitation to the Toast store launch on Marylebone High Street next week, where I gather they will be filling the shop with blooms from The Flower Appreciation Society. At the MiH AW13 press day at their enviable studios […]

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