Mrs Lister writes…

Oh San Sebastian, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways… 1. THE FOOD Where do I start?? I think I’ll let the pictures do the talking. Here’s my top 5…     2. THE WINE My friend Anna posted a link to this article on my Facebook timeline and Jim and I [...]

‘Ladies and gentlemen. I’m sorry to announce that this train has been cancelled due to a fatality on the line at Southall. Please disembark and await further instructions’. I’m always torn between ‘oh no – someone died’ and ‘OH FFS I’M GOING TO BE LATE!’ when I hear announcements such as these. And I’m pretty [...]

HIYA! *waves* Ok so I’ve been about as shit as it’s possible to be over the summer months. What can I say? I’ve had neither the time nor the inclination to put finger to keyboard for anything other than work (which has been REALLY BLOODY BUSY BY THE WAY) and I was struggling to think [...]

Ok let me get it out of the way early on – we were VERY lucky with the weather. It’s a massive gamble booking a walking holiday in England during April but luckily for us it paid off – and then some!   We kicked off our Derbyshire jaunt with three nights in the beautiful [...]

boo and friend photo credit Yes I know list posts are a cop out but I spent almost an hour yesterday writing an extremely personal and emotive blog post only to decide, at the last minute, that it was far TOO personal and emotive. So I deleted it. And then couldn’t face writing another one. [...]

Oh how we needed this holiday. Yes I’m aware of the fact that we were away for 6 months between Oct 09 and April last year but that was NEARLY A YEAR AGO. And besides a blissful mini-honeymoon in Cornwall (5 days total) we hadn’t been further from home than Blackpool in 11 months… We [...]