Tour de France Grand Depart in Yorkshire The Tour de France kicks off in Yorkshire this weekend on 5 July. Stage 1 kicks off with a 190km leg from Leeds to Harrogate via the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Stage 2: riders will go from York to Sheffield for 201km before travelling by car to Cambridge…
What a great summer of sport we have in London this year. The Tour de France Stage 3 arrives in London on Monday 7 July. This is a great opportunity for Londoners to be part of the biggest sports event in the world. The 200 competitors will enters Greater London from Cambridge via the Epping…
SOME KEY FACTS AND FIGURES ON THE WORLD’S LARGEST ANNUAL SPORTING EVENT The Tour de France is the world’s largest annual sporting event It starts at the end of June/beginning of July and lasts 3 weeks The entire race covers approximately 3,500 kms The Grand Départ is the opening of the race of the Tour…
A film that deals with cancer is brave choice to make as not many people want to acknowledge it or even talk about it. I enjoyed it for the love story and the reminder to live life and not be afraid to love, even if you are dying.
Pop ups are everywhere across London this summer. These are usually really fun shops and good enterprises where you’ll get a taste of things to come. Here are a few you should check out. 1. Burt’s Bees Pop Up Store, Earlham Street, Covent Garden, London This fab little shop just opened in Covent Garden to…
What do you do on a boring mid week afternoon. If you are like me you will try to fill it with a quick film. This weeks choices were a bit meagre so I ended up watching The Other Woman as a bit of light relief. This is the classic, women fight back movie ala…
There was not a lot of Rom and a little bit of Com in this film. It was enjoyable enough, especially when the other choices on offer at the cinema were not that enticing. The storyline is a bit ridiculous. Pierce Brosnan plays a soon to be retired middle class wage slave but his company…
Film: Captain America: The Winter Soldier Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo Running time: 136 minutes I love these Marvel comic films. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the latest instalment of this glitzy Avengers franchise. The first scene introduces Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) as the nation’s hero, Captain America. You get to see his spectacular physique with…
The snow globe was erected to protect the famous Eros statue from vandalism during the Christmas period. It is filled with “snow” and there are wind blowers in the globe to snowflakes around. The globe is a temporary structure and will be in place until January. Update: unfortunately, storms caused the globe to burst before…
It’s October in London and the weather is uncharacteristically warm. Today, I am sitting in the sun and getting a tan. I can still wear my Fit Flops and show off my new nail colour. I bought a bottle of bright green Suede nail colour from Revlon. I painted it on at night and couldn’t…