Hello September, My Favourite Month
So, my family and I have been back from our far-off adventures for two weeks, and with our arrival somehow the summer pretty much departed. Thanks awfully!
Read MoreTa Ta For Now!
Off we go tonight, into the wild blue yonder! My little family and I are off eastwards to stay with my dad, to an equatorial city-state island where we will spend our quality time wilting and rehydrating in the oppressive humidity – and also having a big, wonderful, colourful, tropical adventure. While we’re there we’ll be celebrating the island’s 50th […]
Read MoreMy Holiday Reads (If I Can Sit Down Long Enough)
So the holidays are near enough now to think about things like insurance, currency, airport parking and…reading! This is the FIRST YEAR in SEVEN that there is a faint possibility my husband and I may be able to sit on a pair of sun loungers and ACTUALLY READ A WHOLE PAGE, nigh perhaps even a […]
Read MoreLove in a Heatwave: Ice Cream at Marrocco's, Hove, East Sussex
You won’t remember because you’re too busy expiring in today’s THIRTY-DEGREE heat, but exactly a month ago there was a terribly dull Sunday of wind and rain.
Read MoreFood for the Fam: Roast Tomato Sauce for Idiots
Poor little neglected blog. It happens every year – it’s the summer and there’s so much to say about all there is to do out in that glorious sunshine, but I’m three weeks from a three-week holiday and am overloaded on all fronts. Still, I have time enough to admit that I’m a twat. (I’ll […]
Read MoreReview, Interview and GIVEAWAY: Will Mabbit, author of 'The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones', interviewed by daughter Tilly Brookes
Post update 26 Aug 2015: Congratulations to Nicola Furner, Natasha Caughey and Lorna Stagg for winning a copy each of Will Mabbitt’s ‘The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones’. Enjoy it! Big news: two weeks ago a BIG story about a little girl who is ‘NOT SCARED of ANYTHING!’ was published. The little girl is Mabel Jones, […]
Read MoreGuest Post: Beth Miller on Jay Miller's Circus – and Why You Should See it in Lewes This Weekend
A woman in a silver leotard, firing a bow and arrow with her feet! Very fit, slightly camp young men jumping on to seesaws and landing on each others’ shoulders! A smiling girl whirling around a ribbon high above our heads – with no safety net! And best of all, my kids, staring absolutely AGOG in […]
Read MoreHAPPY HOLIDAYS! 2015 Summer Holiday Clubs, Courses and Programmes for Kids in and Near Lewes, East Sussex
Welcome to my second massive summer school holiday activities post (it’s taken me two years to get over doing the last one!). I hope you’ll find it as useful as I know I will. There’s some cracking stuff for our kids to do this summer but I’m sure there is more out there. If you’re going to be running […]
Read MoreHappy Second Birthday to Little Lewes – and a New Look
Well another year has zipped by and Little Lewes is two years old as of yesterday. It launched with this first little post, and it belatedly celebrated it’s first birthday with this one.
Read MoreWildlife Photographer of the Year at Brighton Museum, East Sussex
Hand’s up who loves the open-air exhibition at the Natural History Museum, of the blown-up images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year? Me to! So I was pleased when an email from Brighton Museum arrived, asking if we’d like to come and see the photographs right there. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is co-owned […]
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