mrs miniver's daughter

Has anyone read this yet? I went to a brilliant 'in conversation' event with Barbara Kingsolver at the Festival Hall earlier this...

Lovely afternoon all on my own at Sadler's Wells, watching Birmingham Royal Ballet's Fire & Fury programme: one ballet inspire...

I'm not very good at London Film Festival; 225 films in 12 days befuddles me with too much choice and so I've only actually been t...

I've occasionally emerged from a theatre, thinking: 'Shakespeare would have approved' ... but you don't expect to come out...

This has been an amazing year for quinces. Somebody said to me the other day that they're an ugly fruit - but I think they're beau...

Rummaging in the back of the kitchen cupboard this evening produced a mini Christmas pudding leftover from last year, begging to be eaten ...

I think I was the only person at the Design Museum - bar one old lady -  who couldn't have stepped into one of t...