This morning at the hotel I sat in my preferred breakfast seat in front of the servery. The two tables there are outside the dining room...

​'When you buy or commission the work of a craftsman you buy more than just an item or service. You buy hundreds of hours of...

I loved seeing the very sophisticated Petersham Nurseries shop at Covent Garden - I tried to walk in before it even opened! But I was...

That's the gist of what Samuel Johnson said way back in 1777. I couldn't agree more! So when I woke on Saturday to grey skies and...

Picture a chef standing in front of you shucking ice-cold Mersea Island oysters as fast as you can eat them. That was Thursday night,...

I've been looking forward to searching the archives at Kew for so long I could hardly believe that the day had finally arrived. I was so...

I've heard so much about Petersham Nurseries that I was determined to see the shop in Covent Garden. These hydrangeas grandiflora were...