thanks to the DO lectures for having me play…
just played at the do lectures in Cardigan – what a wicked place… stayed in a nomad tent with reindeer skins and had remarkable food – i want to live in [...]
Meeting Dame Vera Lynn
I am so excited to share with you some photos of my recent meeting with Dame Vera Lynn in Piccadilly last week 25th August 2009. I wanted to meet her as [...]
Watching the start of World War II Poland 1st Sept 1939
There are only a handful of people left who can say they saw World War II start. Few survive to tell the tale of the German cruiser, Schleswig-Holstein, [...]
Service to mark WWII evacuations
A commemorative service is to be held at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the 70th anniversary of the evacuation of British citizens in World War II. [...]
Britain finally honours Polish war effort with first official memorial
Seventy years after start of second wold war, memorial and book commemorates 500,000 Poles who fought under UK
My recent trip to the Athens of the North – Edinburgh capital city of Bonnie Scotland
Excited and ecstatic, I have had the opportunity to visit this fascinating and vibrant city at the height of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in mid August [...]
Inspiration for my forthcoming single Kommanders Car
Kazimierz Piechowski’s remarkable escape story from Auschwitz, June 20th 1942. I recently visited Kazimierz and I am very proud to meet such a remarkable [...]
bravo to the mercury prize musical ladies of 2009!
2009 marks an exciting year for the British music industry – at least in terms of there being so many breakthrough female artists this year nominated for [...]
my grandma's shortcrust pastry recipe
my Grandma has been making shortcrust pastry for most of the last 86 years ever since she was ten and learnt it from her mother – although she finds it [...]
sticky toffee pudding recipe
sticky toffee pudding a favourite pudding that my English Grandma made for me!!!!! Prep time: 20 mins Cook time: 1 hr Serves: 6 Moist, sweet, [...]