Raining Strawberries at Wimbledon

 Mary Poppins is 60! Now that ages us, we are the generation who learnt, a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down and proud of being able to say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and those who learnt it backwards were just showing off!

Beginning today with an aging observation.

2 weeks ago, we avidly read in this magazine a fabulous article by Alison James entitled ‘The Other Fab Four’ about the wives and girlfriends of The Beatles. In it were many quotes from model/It Girl, at the time, Pattie Boyd. Pattie met and quickly fell in love with George Harrison on the set of ‘A Hard Day’s Night while playing a schoolgirl. Just over a year later in1966 they were married but in 1977 went their separate ways with Pattie leaving George for Eric Clapton. I’ve known Pattie for about 20 years, I used to live near to her and we share many mutual friends.

My tip for snack attacks is the small click lid box I travel around with. Inside is a collection of nuts and seeds, pumpkin, walnut, brazil, almond, hazelnut, sunflower and to give it all a kick, tiny pieces of 80% cocoa dark chocolate. Then in a second box I have my blueberries, a delicious fruit packed with antioxidants and easy to eat on the go.

How do you eat a pizza?

Obviously asking in relation to our delicious article on homemade pizzas.

According to Mark, who spent his early years growing up just outside of Milan with an amazing Italian Mother accomplished in all cooking and consuming matters, I make a mess, in fact an embarrassing mess.

Great to see Hannah Waddingham on our front cover celebrating her 50th as I’ve had a total girl crush on this lady since watching her play AFC Richmond owner Rebecca Welton in Apple TV’s Ted Lasso. Love, hate or have no emotion about football, please give this series a try and by the 3rd episode you will no doubt be glued, clutching the remote saying “oh just one more”.

Writing to you this week from the beautiful Greek island of Santorini. This trip isn’t work related, its absolute and total pleasure. I love island life here, it’s our fourth visit We always hire a car and over the years if it’s worth seeing we probably have.

Last night before crashing out – (Sleep like the dead here first night a whopping 12 hours, now down to an acceptable 7 to 8) I set an alarm to get up and write to you and then enjoy the beautiful, quiet tranquillity of the morning.

Just returned from a fabulous 3 day shoot with one of my best friends. Can’t tell you too much about it until the programme airs in October but, it’s on the BBC, involves a classic car and a lot of antiques. I’ll give you the total lowdown nearer the time, but this is what I wanted to share with you. This particular episode of the series was filmed in a location that has a history of outdoor speed skating and has recently opened a brand-new ice rink.