Dorset

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A New Year on the Sofa

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ January 5, 2022 ⋅ Leave a comment

Happy new year! This one has to be easier, right? I know it doesn’t work like that but I’m feeling optimistic. Last year showed me that positive things do happen against all odds and expectations. I doubt many of us got through the holidays completely unscathed but I hope they did you some good. I … Continue reading →

Finding the Words

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ November 11, 2016 ⋅ 7 Comments

‘There are no words.’ ‘Speechless.’ ‘Unspeakable.’ How often have you said, read or heard one of the above this year? They seem to encapsulate everything 2016 will be remembered for, alluding to the inadequacy of language to convey the full force of shock, outrage, disillusionment, at one event after another. The irony is that we … Continue reading →

A Citydweller’s Week by the Sea

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ October 31, 2011 ⋅ 4 Comments

Back in London now after a fantastic week away from it all in Dorset, in Lyme Regis on the Jurassic Coast (South Coast of England about 4 hrs from London for those who don’t know it) which is a designated World Heritage Site. It covers 95 miles of truly stunning coastline from East Devon to Dorset, … Continue reading →

Luck: When one good thing comes of another

Posted by Isabel Costello ⋅ October 20, 2011 ⋅ 6 Comments

On one of the many three-day weekends we had this year (with the royal wedding and all) we went to visit my husband’s family in the place where he grew up and the rest of them still live. The Wye is a beautiful wooded river valley that snakes back and forth across the border between England and Wales. We … Continue reading →