mrs miniver's daughter

I could take the pretty way to the supermarket, along the river, past a field full of cows, picking an armful of lacy cow parsley and butte...

I do feel a bit guilty having spent two gloriously sunny days with my head buried in a book. And I'm the one who was moaning all winter...

I realise with a jolt this afternoon that I haven't been to Kew Gardens since last autumn, when I gathered a big bag of sweet chestnuts ...

It was heaving at the V&A as ladies of a certain age and gay men sighed over Grace Kelly's wardrobe. Unfortunately, the V&A see...

The chocolate cake that I made yesterday would have used up half my weekly sugar ration, two weeks' chocolate and butter, and nearly two...

The hedgehog is a delicacy which few people have tasted. Perhaps because the uninitiated first think of the prickles and how to get rid of t...

The Geffrye Museum is one of London's prettiest museums. (Even if they're undergoing building work at the moment.) I dawdled throug...