Come into the Garden of Ninfa…

Some say it is the most romantic garden in the world. The strange, lost, paradisical garden of Ninfa. Once a Medieval village that was deserted and has remained a ruin so well preserved that it gives a perfect idea of how a Medieval Italian village would have been. Since then it has been transformed into […]

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This week’s date: to the Polo we go!

I was asked not to take my camera to the VIP section, but I did sneak in my iPhone, so you can have a look on my new instagram account http://instagram.com/p/aTuZiXN6Wx/ (or click on the link at the bottom of the sidebar)Please don’t hate me for saying that I love polo. I made friends with the sport […]

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Glass half full

This week’s date is at The Sampler, on Upper Street, Islington http://www.thesampler.co.uk/store/ . They also have a branch in South Ken if you must live over that way.If you haven’t discovered Jamie Hutchinson’s truly brilliant little off licence, then get thee down there at once. Buy yourself a sampling card (like an oyster card only for […]

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Date idea; mixing pleasures at Ronnie Scott’s

               D and I have taken to getting tickets. Tickets are brilliant because you can ask the other person to keep a date free and then surprise them on the day. There’s no wimping out on the day with, ‘I’m too tired.’ For Christmas, D got me really fantastic tickets…I was bowled over by Ronnie Scott’s. […]

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Tallulah

So the big news here in case you haven’t heard is that Fiona Campbell Photography has moved. To delicious, boutiquey Islington, no less. We are now just behind the Almeida Theatre, in Milner Square, and Ottolenghi’s is but a cappuccino’s throw away. And just down the road on Cross Street is Nicola Adams delightful boutique, […]

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