Vale Adriana
Adriana Xenides, who died this week aged 54 of a ruptured intestine, was a breath-takingly beautiful dark haired Argentian-born 17-year-old when her big break into modelling happened by chance....
View ArticleA sobering story
It is the tail end of a delightful birthday soiree for eight hosted by our friends/neighbours Chris and Peter and we have retired under the vine-clad pergola for fig-infused ginger pudding with maple...
View ArticleA mothering milestone
Do we ever stop being mothers? Are we ever free of the “motherhood’’ tag to finally stop fretting about our adult children? If there is such a moment, it must be now that my son, my youngest child,...
View ArticleLavende: A rare French connection
When Callington restauranteur Christine Wilkinson was a young English girl growing up in London, she did not feel English at all. She knew her grandmother, Colette, was French and when she went to...
View ArticleI’m in love with Paris says Helen Orr
My husband and I seem to end up in Paris for a week or so each year. We don’t waver from our decision to see a new country each year (Turkey last year, Egypt this year) but convince ourselves that it...
View ArticleBoomer Blokes – A Threatened Species
If you are a bloke of a certain age, say 60-something or older, you could well be a walking time-bomb with disease (breeding for years) about to present itself. To reflect my point, right now I have...
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