It may not have the grandness of the Chateau Du Villandry but my mini potager has had a makeover and starting to house the first salad crops. After all the measuring and mathematics I’m just relieved to have got it to this state. Give it a few more weeks and... Despite it being t-shirt weather in Sydney it was a miserable cloudy day when I struck out on my own for a couple of hours with my camera. Intent on taking some pictures of the Opera House it turned out to be a real disappointment with a cloudy dull sky making the... MT judges the level of civility in a city by it’s capability to rustle up a grand afternoon tea in such a way that an Englishman abroad can feel right at home. We may have just missed Sydney’s latest foodie festival but it didn’t stop us partaking... If I ignored the people crawling like ants up the Sydney Harbour bridge I could imagine that I am back in Newcastle Upon Tyne where I spent many happy years living soon after I left University and got my first job. I couldn’t help but think wistfully of those... It’s quite a shock to a country girl to be in a city. The urban hum drones in the background and the neon sparkles all around us. It’s a razzle-dazzle world. 