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Korean Memories

New Years Eve 2005 I boarded a plane and ran away for just over a year to Korea. I spent the entire of 2006 there; with a little 6 day sojurn to Taiwan. And I’ve never made it back 🙁 I’ll get there some day! I promise! Courtesy of a husband that makes excellent bibimbap and…

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MacBeth

I was also lucky enough to go to the second night of Oddsocks at Chepstow Castle, for a really really unique take on Macbeth! I’m planning to watch the Michael Fassbender movie soon and as much as I love Fassbender I’m going to be disappointed if he doesn’t sing Bat Out Of Hell! It was…

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Much ado about nothing

For the second year we made our way to Chepstow Castle to see Oddsocks performing some Shakespeare, on the Friday night it was Much Ado About Nothing and it was a very fun and different version, I don’t think Shakespeare expected Beyonce to provide the music for his work! I wholeheartedly recommend going to see…

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Hay Festival

I was thrilled to be able to make it to the Hay Festival last Monday and to spend a day being entertained and educated. And in the sun as well! I packed my day in with talks and managed to snap a few photos in between. The talks I went to were: The Romanovs, Simon Sebag Montefiore…

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Competition time!

It’s been a while since I ran a competition and I’ve been playing with the idea for this one for a while, so here goes! Each month for the foreseeable future I’m going to be offering two prizes, one picked at random, the other for the entrant that makes me smile the most 🙂 This month…

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