and shoes of every size for every outdoor activity. On the back of the door, he noticed a new addition to our bordello of clutter – two wetsuits bought at a car-boot sale, for when we go to the beach, or take up sailing.We’ve lived in our end

bedfellows. How did you strike on that combination?To answer that I would have to go back to when I was a little girl. My father owned a tiny, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland, which had no roads, houses or electricity. We would go

more hours to Sun Peaks before flying back from Kamloops.  Kelowna is now being expanded to accept direct inter-continental flights from Britain – although Calgary turned out to be a great airport for children, full of life-size sculptures of animals

’d take her back to his house for the day. Every day he would write me a little story and leave it hidden for me to find. They were all about my toys and what they got up to while I was at school. When I was about eight or nine, as a surprise, he collected

Zombies were the reason I first became Dr Frankenstein with a crochet hook and yarn (or rather why I created the creatures in my book, Creepy Cute Crochet). I have a bit of a soft spot for zombie flicks. Old-school shamblers, recent remakes, undead

Having set up your chilidren’s cookery school La Petite Ecole at Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons, you are clearly an exponent of children in the kitchen. What is your earliest memory of cooking?We lived the most cliché of French life where the table

and comfortable seating for parents, so you can sit back and relax while your children create a mess that someone else will clear up! Sessions introduce children to giant wooden paintbrushes, allowing them to splash around in the paint; they may get quite messy

THE TIME HAS come for us to admit that feminists were wrong. There’s too much pressure on women to have it all. Something has to give. It’s either our career, children, marriage or sanity, but something has to go on the back burner. A couple

-class food at very low prices – £1–2 or so a person. But it’s the interactivity that the girls love – they’re already becoming little global gastronauts.Next morning, we’re ready to dig a little deeper. Time for cooking school, Vietnam-style. We speak

the jungles, mountains and waterfalls of Thailand. Tell Tale Travel offers Thai adventure holidays with plenty to delight children, such as monkey-spotting in the trees and learning how to care for elephants, as well as visiting a local primary school