It is May Day today! Celebrate with the Morris Dancers and put a garland of flowers in your hair! May Day has been a traditional day of festivities throughout the centuries. May Day is most associated with towns and villages celebrating springtime fertility (of the soil, livestock, and people) and revelry with village fetes and community gatherings. […]
Continue reading →Two Sundays ago, Mark and I went up to the Old Vic in London to a special event to celebrate Kevin Spacey as he stepped down as artistic director. It was a truly wonderful night and we spent most of it just gazing at famous face after famous face! Guests included Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville […]
Continue reading →This video of the beautiful, graceful Audrey Hepburn accepting her Special Award at the BAFTAs in 1992 with this speech had me smiling from ear to ear. A true icon.
Continue reading →Last week we celebrated Winston Churchill’s death of 50 years ago and the Holocaust Liberation 70 years ago. I am very interested in History and I found that watching the various programmes on television was not only a great history lesson, but also a reminder of the extraordinary people we still have and have had in our world.
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