There are some wonderful royal events occuring this year.  In fact one has already been and gone.  First of two royal babies.  Then we have very soon, one royal wedding – great press excitement of course.   Lots of foreign visitors coming over to London especially to sit in the queues to see the procession and […]

We had  Mothering Sunday recently – a date notable in every child’s inbuilt diary when prompted by Dad.  In my youth it was simply a case of getting a bunch of flowers of suitable colour and size.  Handing over this one precious gift was more important than the birthday ones – this was the day […]