I’ve bought a coffee machine. I know. The guy who drinks nothing but tea (and alcoholic beverages obviously) has bought a coffee machine. Apparently this coffee machine does everything, apart from make tea. You name the coffee type, it does it. Latte, Flat White, Espresso, um, some others. It comes with a recipe book of…
A cold winter’s morning in Norwich and there’s a light crunching under foot as I walk across the lawn – or what passes for a lawn. I’m hoping the noise I can hear is frost. When I say ‘lawn’, it’s more like a carpet of rotting Sycamore leaves with an additional layer of those helicopter seed pods…
I’ve never been a great lover of New Year’s Eve. I think it must be something to do with having to work every December 31st in my teenage years at a posh hotel where we had to do everything we could to make sure everyone was having the best of times. I look back on it…
It’s the time of year to blow away those cobwebs and get out to the seaside. I love to head to the coast over the Christmas/New Year holiday period and take in some of that fresh sea air and make plans for the coming year. One of my favourite beaches on the Norfolk coast is…
I once dreamt of a world where it would be possible for every thing I needed to be available on my command – without having to rely on the servants below stairs. Already I have a smart phone that can do simple tasks for me like add something to my calendar, alert me when there is new email…
The light in the garden at this time of year can take your breath away more forcefully than the frost in the air. By 10am the sun is high enough to illuminate the crystals of ice on the leaves and garden furniture. A blackbird turns over the crispy leaves under the fir trees looking for…
