Fulham owner Mohamed Al Fayed revolutionised Craven Cottage with teams that very nearly conquered the Europa League – but at one stage, he planned a much more literal rebuild in west London. At the start of the 21st Century, the Whites had to decamp to QPR’s Loftus Road since the …
Read More »‘It needed to feel like a treat’: our first holiday without kids in 22 years and the beautiful Welsh cottage where we spent it
So now it’s just the two of us, which is why we’ve decided to book a holiday to celebrate our last child leaving home and us becoming officially free agents. Nevertheless it still feels weird. What are we going to talk about for the whole weekend? We know what we’re …
Read More »Far and away my best Christmas trip: a cottage on the Pembrokeshire coast
And then the dreaded words were spoken: “Let’s all go away for Christmas.” We braced ourselves for the avalanche of opposition, particularly from the most formidable quarters: children and grandparents. Like most families we were riven by deaths, divorces, distance and Marmite. Christmas had become a crazy shuttling between familiar …
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