May draws to a close with weeks of unprecedented weather, featuring intense heat, dramatic storms, flash floods and lightning strikes, and we are reminded that summer has not officially begun!! However, it is a time when thoughts often turn to travel, making journeys for days out, holidays away or visits to family and friends. With…

It’s the merry month of May and the Morris Dancers were up at the crack of dawn to celebrate May Day. Many years ago, when I was working at a school in Leicestershire, one of the staff members was a very keen Morris Dancer. By some miraculous means he persuaded all the male staff members to…

I had already got plans in mind for the main feature of this April newsletter – I was going to focus on reporting on a much-anticipated visit to Bath for the Zandra Rhodes exhibition, A life in Colour. Tickets were booked and date in the diary – then life threw me a curveball and instead…