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Scotland by Twitter

28 June, 2009 By

I have just got back from two weeks in Scotland, a trip that took me from the Orkney Islands in the north, to the Isle of Skye and Inveraray on the West Coast and home via Glasgow. I couldn’t blog from the road because of a lack of time and reliable internet access, but kept [...]

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Photo Friday: Sahara Festival in Douz, Tunisia

12 June, 2009 By

Douz, Tunisia; Christmas 2006 In 2006 we were tossing up our options for how to spend Christmas and use up our annual holiday leave. We’d already done the whole white Christmas in the Austrian Alps two years previously and this year we did not feel up for the whole hoopla. So we decided to try [...]

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Recipe Road Test: Orange poppyseed cake

11 June, 2009 By

It was my birthday last week so what better excuse to bake a cake? It’s been ages since I’d done any baking – I’m usually a savoury cook. I had a bit of time to play around in the kitchen and I quite fancied getting out the wooden spoon and mixing bowl and whipping up [...]

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London Still – but Orkney, Glasgow, Cardiff, Dublin, Amsterdam and San Francisco await

11 June, 2009 By

Like the Waifs’ song, I’m in London still. I’m in a weird limbo right now. The wedding and honeymoon is behind me and the move to San Francisco is ahead of me. My husband has already moved Stateside but I am stuck in London waiting for an appointment at the US Embassy to get my [...]

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Here comes the bride…

7 June, 2009 By

St Mary’s Church, East Balmain; 4 April 2009 Rhia the bridesmaid and Emma the flower girl, followed by myself on my father Michael’s arm. Tweet

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Photo Friday: Crusaders and saracens battle for Krak des Chevaliers in Syria

6 June, 2009 By

Krak des Chevaliers, Syria; July 2008 Okay, they are not actually Crusaders and Saracens – they’re my friends and actually they’re both Arabic. The ‘swords’ in question are bits of blade grass. But we are at a genuine 11th century crusader castle in Syria. How cool is that? It took a long time to get [...]

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