The Regency and the Gothic Revival architecture
Let me warn you: it might not be easy to follow the architectural styles in this post as we are going to jump back and forth in time, but trust me, it is worth it! After (or rather during) the…
How English is the Fish & Chips?
Let me set the scene (not the table!): At the end of the episode "Yellow Iris", Poirot is hungry as he did not manage to eat whilst solving the case. Now he is complaining to Captain Hastings. ‘With all this…
Have you heard about the Royal Oak Apple Day?
The Royal Oak Apple Day was an English National Holiday celebrated on 29th May in the whole country until it was abolished in 1859. (Let me say what a pity as the UK do not really have National Holidays.) First…
A British £8bn business. What is it?
The sandwich business. Awareness days are very popular these days and you would find there is an awareness day for almost every day of the year and for almost everything including, breast cancer day, chocolate day, cleaning day, doughnut day…
How I threw £12 out of the window
I have never been to the US. They say everything is huge in America and shops are massive. Well, as for me, sometimes I struggle to navigate even in European and English shops. Those of you who know chronobiology will…
A day in the Cotswolds – Sudeley Castle
I realised the other day that we have been to many places during the 2.5 years since we have been living here and as a result I have loads of photographs which I can only share step by step depending…
„Are you married… or do you live in Maidenhead?”
Well, I am not married and I do live in Maidenhead, but not in the early 20th century. What does this expression mean? Let me tell you. The Eastern tip of Berkshire is an interesting mix: you have the elegant…
The secret of the Lavenham Blue
At Easter, we visited Suffolk and Norfolk, whilst we did not see everything we wanted, we did manage to see a lot. Lavenham was on our list because we both have seen it on TV several times and wanted to…
The truth about Q1 2018 – Blog report
Although this blog is not meant to be about me, in some ways it is. One thing professional bloggers advise is to be honest with Readers. Therefore, I decided to look back on the first quarter of 2018 in a…
The oddities of the English!
If you think about England or the English or even about the Englishness, probably the strange plugs and sockets, the left hand driving and the two taps on a sink come to your mind which – to be fair –…