This week’s small pleasures: episode 12

It’s Monday evening, and time to reflect on small pleasures from the week before. It was a relatively quiet week, … More

Watching, listening, reading: May

Can you believe it is the end of May already? No I can’t either. Anyway, here is this month’s round … More

There are certain foods that have a way of transporting us to different times and places. One whiff of baking … More

Here we are on Monday evening, and time to look back at this week’s small pleasures. Thanks once again to … More

One of my favourite BBC Radio 4 programmes is Digital Human, an occasional series devoted to exploring all things in … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea we would be sitting in the upstairs lounge sipping Pina … More

Among the headlines in the British press when I woke on Wednesday morning, was the story that BBC Food, a … More

A day later than usual – it is Tuesday evening here in New Zealand as I type – but here … More

Sunday morning should be a chance to lie in and start the day slowly. Not so this Sunday as it … More

This morning as I was dozing, not wanting to get up before the alarm went off, I listened to a … More