Given a friend's penchant for handing over a case of wine from the 50th birthday boy or girl's birth year, and given that my half century is fast approaching, I'm urgently seeking a new vintage despite mine being 'one of the 20th century's finest'. Read more

If it's summer, it must be (mostly) seafood on the menu, especially if it's sauvignon blanc starring as the accompanying wine. Read more

There's a company called 'Style your Garage' that creates images - photographs printed on weather-proof tarpaulins - for garage doors Read more

It takes a special kind of person to miss their flight home despite having arrived at the airport some five hours ahead of take-off. Read more

It seemed, after opening a bottle of prosecco with breakfast to celebrate my arrival in the UK, silly to wait until the Boeing flew over before proceeding on to white, Read more