To be honest it was a joy to leave a very wet and rainy England behind – even though it meant leaving my gorgeous 300-year-old cottage, that I spent the summer decorating and turning into my beautiful home. After a couple of years travelling all over the world…

It is never too early to think about the life you will be living when you are older. Of course, all of us want a nice retirement with the time to do all the things we never had time for before, and although we can never really know how things will be for us in our later years…

From the moment that tiny hand clasps your finger, you are smitten. As those gorgeous big eyes stare up at you, you know you will do anything in the world to protect them. It is the same endless, unconditional love you had for your own child, with all the wisdom…

They say that time is a healer, but it is you who learns to heal, through time. You become a master of how to avoid the pain that seems to be in every cell in your body. You slowly learn that crying all day leads to constant headaches, fatigue…

Most of us have a certain amount of disposable income that we need to decide how, and where, to spend. There are always a million things to spend your money on, but basically, it comes down to two things. Do you want to have things…

To all you wonderful dreamers out there. Dream on. Spend your days daydreaming of what might have been… or what could still be. Spend your nights sleep-dreaming of all the incredible hopes and wishes you have for the future…

You would think by the time we reached 60 we would have it all figured out. There wouldn’t be a single thing that fazed us or we thought we couldn’t handle. We have experienced so much, made thousands of decisions, some good, some not so good…

By the time we have reached our 60s, all of us have had a share of fails and successes; hopefully, far more of the latter. It is the very nature of living that life is full of ups and downs. As we each write our own unique life story, it is these that help us grow…

I booked a weekend away in The English Riviera, which stretches from Exmouth to Plymouth, in beautiful Devon. The 22-mile stretch is filled with sandy beaches, rocky coves, picturesque villages and little seaside towns. A quintessential holiday…

Did you know that the two cities that seem to be on everyone’s bucket list are London and Paris? Let me share my tale of these two cities. London, my beautiful home town. The place where I grew up in the late 50s and 60s, where my playground was old bomb sites…