The craziness continues with a week of contrasts. And it's still only Tuesday. I left you on a cliffhanger of broken pipes and gangs of workmen on Monday morning, but the day turned into a winner when I sped over to Ashford (forgetting how much further
Welcome to my world. Return from long weekend in Devon, which didn't involve any sunshine at all really but quite a lot of scrubbing of floors, takeaways, drinking and watching far too much Olympics when we should have been painting and decorating...
An urgent message, first, to all readers who may have been experiencing difficulties getting in touch with the Kent Life editorial and sales team via our Maidstone office. BT, in their infinite widsom, managed to sever our connection earlier this week,
Well, we got there - Kent Life's September edition finally got to press last night, but it was a day of notable drama. Monkey and I set off for Worthing even earlier than usual, concerned that the lashing rain we were greeted by at dawn would delay our
If only readers knew the dramas, the tears and the near bloodshed that's behind getting a nice shiny, happy copy of their favourite county magazine onto the magazine stands! Here at Kent Life we're poised to go to press on our September edition, which
Our British summer is so fleeting it can feel like a real triumph when you manage to enjoy a 'proper' balmy, open air evening event, as I did yesterday - especially when the previous night saw half the population dive under the bedclothes
Writing a blog can become a bit like a diary, an intensely private affair, so it comes as an occasional wake-up to realise it's actually really quite widely read. Like when I walked into the offices at Chapel Down Wines in Tenterden this
I am quite literally boiling mad - it's a beautiful summer evening and, by rights, I should be doing yoga on the roof of my local sports centre. Admittedly, it sounds a little odd, but it's a flat roof, perfectly safe and, as a close-knit group, we've
What a fantastic weekend for weather! I'm sure everyone made the most of it, and it does make you realise what a great part of the world we live in. Having been in West Sussex all day Friday for various meetings, including our August review, with the
Had the most bizarre dream last night - and boy, can I do weird dreams - which involved our leader, Suzanne, finding out that I had a horse chestnut tree at the end of my garden and getting terribly excited about the possibilities this opened up for inter-magazine
It's been a bit of a whirlwind week since going to press last Tuesday, which already seems ages ago, especially as we're hurtling through our September edition already. Well, that's my excuse for tardiness on the blogging front, anyway. Monkey and
This is a sad, sad day in the Kent Life office - Monkey has Come To A Decision, and it's not been an easy one. The following announcement is in his own words, for I simply cannot do justice to the pain he is experiencing. Here it is then, in full and
Contrary to all expectations, the sun shone on the opening day of the Kent County Show and the 250-acre site at Detling was bustling even at 8.30am, when Monkey and I rocked up. Economic downturn? Not a great deal of sign of that at arguably the most
Well, Cap'n Suzanne is definitely back from her travels - two weeks on a cruise ship around Russia and Scandinavia - looking sickeningly well and raring to go. As I can vouch for - my mobile rang at 6.40am today and there she was, bright and breezy, on
Well, in true British spirit, my Mum's 'Big Bash' at the weekend was a triumph of having-fun-whatever- the-weather. Originally planned as a garden party - we even put up a gazebo in a howling gale the day before - by the time high noon on Saturday came