The best meal of the day. Or so I like to think. We seem to spend a lot of time in a hotels and I always like to judge a hotel by its breakfast. Will they have what I want? And what do I want? First of all the coffee has to be strong: very […]Read Post ›
Yesterday there was no Elizabeth line to Maidenhead, so I decided to take an Uber. I had to wait across the road from the station for it ( why do all the new station forecourts have no taxi access?) and so I made my way to the old , sorely missed, Parade Delicatessen, now a […]Read Post ›
I don’t know why this little town cropped up in my mind suddenly this morning. The first and last time I was there was in 1965 . My father had decided to take me to Poland for the summer, and it was going to be a momentous journey for him and for me, for totally […]Read Post ›
If you live within reach of London it would be lovely to see you here. This commemorative exhibition should be both informative and fascinating. The exhibition is open till 8th August and then from 10th August in POSK in Hammersmith. Warsaw Calling 80th anniversary exhibition commemorating the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, 20 July-8 August 2024 Opening […]Read Post ›
I bought this broom about a year ago. It came in several parts, so today I finally decided to unwrap it and put it together. Even for my clumsy hands it was a doddle. And then to use it. Normally, I hoover the kitchen floor, but my machine wouldn’t pick up the leaves, ( from […]Read Post ›
Of course, she didn’t make it to her hundred years. But this picture, taken on the occasion of her fiftieth birthday, it very much looks as if she would. Vibrant, exciting, and generous, with hundreds of friends and admirers, she was my favourite aunt. My only aunt, in fact, but nonetheless my favourite. Her fiftieth […]Read Post ›
or How I spent the best part of the week in bed. Covid really takes it out of you. What can you do except read. So read I did. I in fact took this book with me on holiday and brought it back unopened. Just as well as I would have been really stuck this […]Read Post ›
Life Through Basia's Eyes 