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Well, here we are. We’ve survived a hurricane sandwich, although Jerry pretty much fizzled. Still, it’s nice to be on the other side. I know we were all lucky (the Bahamas did give us perspective after all), but it’s never easy losing your roof or g...

It’s been quite the week of horrors over here at domestic HQ. First, a cockroach invasion in the car and then I discovered nests of spiders (vomit) while packing up the garden furniture for Humberto. Fortunately, the good people of MAJ’s List have b...

The pawpaw has dominated the Smith family’s dinner table since last year when they began work on a joint cookbook project centred around the fruit. Pawpaw Bermuda, created by Edwin Smith, his wife Shirley Ann and their sons Micrae and Stefan, contai...

Friday the 13th feels like a good day for a glass of wine at my desk, but I suppose 9am is a fraction early. I once shared an overnight train from Pretoria to Cape Town with a crazy older lady who started doing shots of vodka at breakfast. She kept s...

Last week we were discussing how to get our children sleeping well, knowing that if they slept better then we would too. Although mine were terrible sleepers as babies, I was saying how good they are now …. I should have known I was tempting fate! ...

Cabernet sauvignon reigns supreme worldwide with 840,000 acres planted, which puts it well above second place merlot at 657,000. It was not until 1996 that DNA evidence at the University of California at Davis proved conclusively that this grape is...

Several years ago, I pulled together a savoury snack list, after discovering Belle helping herself to handfuls of icing sugar for breakfast. I’d tried to lie in and then kind of slept while I heard the children crashing around downstairs. I knew I’d ...

Back at my desk and down to earth with a bump … except, when your bump is Bermuda, you just can’t really complain! And though our holiday was amazing, I’ve never been so happy to be home … the journey was a little epic and the flight from Athens to T...

For a little while now, every other year, my amazing dad has sent us tickets and flown us over to join him for a holiday in Europe. He’s not an extravagant man usually. It seems like the opposite right now though. Hidden away in a remote valley in Gr...

Almost every parent I’ve ever met has been united by some common themes: total exhaustion, addiction to caffeine, wide-eyed bewilderment (how can something so small poop so much?). Yet, even if we’re hanging on to our sanity by a thread, it’s a golde...

I was at a meeting discussing the health crisis in Bermuda the other day and the drink options were: coffee, soda, fluorescent juice cocktail or water. Obviously given the context, the done thing would have been to drink water ... and most people we...

I always take the first week of the summer holidays off with the kids and, while it should mean lots of downtime, I’m still writing this from the kitchen at 11pm. I have working-mum guilt. And so while I am squeezing in one hour of work first thing,...