Never Mind the Bus Pass

West Kirby is one of our favourite beaches in the north west of England because it is clean, pretty and easily accessible so when our days off coincided last week we drifted off to The Wirral for a stroll along side the sea with the puppy.There's

Still Alice by Lisa Genova Published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Fifty-year-old Alice Howland loves her life and is immensely proud of everything she has achieved in her career. She is a professor at Harvard and a world-renounced expert in linguistics, extremely well-known and respected in her field. She also has … Continue reading →

I have a shortlist of must eat places that I visit every time I am back in town. Places that offer comfort, deliciousness and that make me feel right at home. Bowls of loveliness and pies of joy, spicy fabulous … Continue reading →

Time for the quarter-year check-in: are you still listening to m b v?

After all the fuss surrounding its shock ‘n’ bore release, when the surprise of My Bloody Valentine finally releasing a new album seemed to trick a lot of people into a state of frenzy without much thought towards the, you know, actual content of the LP.

It was as if a certain breed of music fan suddenly mutated into the One Directioners of Shoegaze.

But not a ton of people are chatting about m b v now; not in the same way they still talking about …

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It may be measured in baby steps, but at last the Department of Health (DH) is acknowledging the importance of cold homes, and living in fuel poverty, to the health debate. Age UK’s lobbying and campaigning on fuel poverty issues … Continue

I enjoyed this: it’s the first time I’ve had a Portuguese Chenin Blanc.

Now Portugal is blessed with a wide array of its own varieties, so you might ask why any serious Portuguese wine grower would look elsewhere for foreign varieties to play with. But Chenin could be a worthy exception to this rule, because it

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