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Writing this as the rain lashes down outside my window from an opaque Dartmoor sky. As soon as it stops we’ll be lacing up our boots, inhaling the mossy air and winding through swathes of yellow-speckled gorse to one of our favourite magical places on the moors. The day after this picnic, my daughter complained of a stiff shoulder from over an hour of skimming stones. The perfect family summer holiday injury imo. What sums up the perfect family holiday for you? Do you have any special places you return to again and again. Or is your happy place to go it alone? 🥒 🥪 Picnic: A neighbour’s home-grown cucumber, sandwich with salami from Cotswold Curer, tomatoes from @rootsandvinestavistock, pasty from @chunkofdevon , homemade vegan salads (out of shot, on laps, eaten while watching river course by). #picnicfood #howisummerA few years ago I studied for my WSET wine exams. It was great fun, I used to peddle round on my bike, I met some people who became firm friends, and it opened up the fascinating world of wine to me. When flying out of Dubai I always pop into one of the @explorleclos shops for a nerdy browse and, in some, a taste. I’ll pick up a duty free bottle for my first destination which always goes down well. Before coming back, I order and pay online and someone hands over my 5 bottles just before passport control. It’s like receiving a welcome home gift 🎁🍷 This summer you can get up to 25% off click and collect with the code SUMMER18 Plus there’s a chance to win a Eurocave and wine. Swipe to see my entry. • • Under the clouds in my glass there’s Chateauneuf du Pape - a wine from Southern Rhône that’s lusciously soft with bramble fruits, dried herbs, a lick of tar and, in some cases, a leathery whiff of sweaty horse (this is a good thing!). It was perfect with our barbecue. • • If you drink wine, what’s your favourite for drinking during Summer evenings? And if not, what’s in your glass that makes you smile? #summerwithleclos #giftedAfter staying with friends we are back to the bosom of the family again. Reminding myself not to take this time for granted. The girls still wanting to holiday with us. Rubbing along with my Mother in law in the home KP grew up in. Hiking our favourite Dartmoor walks in this endless summer warmth. Mindful to savour each moment as everything is temporary. • • Is there anything that sums up British summer at the seaside better than a beach hut? • • What are you up to this summer? Is there anything you wish will never end?A family walk along the clatterboard, through the dunes (aka Braunton Burrows) to skim pebbles in the sea. Cormorants standing tall on a spit, and sand martins swooping above our heads were pretty much our only companions along more than two miles of open beach until we reached Saunton Sands and the sun came out. Bliss. . The girls took a bit of cajoling when they were little but now happy to stride along, for which I am so grateful. #howisummerAll the ingredients were there. Good bread, soft and warm with whipped butter. Salty olives, sea bream, ox cheek, haddock frittata. A delicious vegan menu. Warm summer evening light making the local pottery and wine glasses gleam. But most of all, we were together - three generations.. grandmother, sister, brother, in laws, cousins. How often do you sit round a table to break bread with your family or old friends? . . PS This is my very favourite place. @the_cornish_arms_tavistock in Devon #handsinframe #tablesituation #southwestenglandShowing you care about friends and family is about the little things. Taking time to choose, peel, chop, segment fruit for people who are dear to you beats bottles of Champagne, complicated desserts or lavish gifts imo. There’s truth in that saying “peel me a grape will you”! When was the last time someone did it for you? 🍇 🍐 UK bound tomorrow. Will not miss the heat but will miss the perfect, ripe, flavourful fruit from the region. Soft, fragrant peaches from Tunisia, grapes from Egypt, pomegranates from India. Shot on the @fuijifilmme I’ve been trying out for a month. 📷 #gifted #fujifilm #fujifilmxt100 #fujifilmme_xt100 In the UAE & GCC, if you buy a FujiFilm XT100 at @grandstoresdigital before 31st July, use this code to go into the draw for a tripod. TCSPR0002This is the only food prep I’ve been allowed. My daughters have taken over the kitchen and, after tantalising aromas lure us there, we tuck into bowls brimming with wholesome, healthy and toothsome vegan vivers (couldn’t resist the alliteration 🙈). 🧀 Lunches are all mine though and, as I brought three truckles home in my suitcase, focussed on @whitelakecheese cheese with good crackers and fresh fruit. These are all made of ewes’ milk including ‘Sheep Rustler’ which won the Supreme Champion trophy at the British Cheese Awards this year. What’s your ‘go to’ lunch that always puts a smile on your face? #cheeseboard #cheeseboards #britishcheeseImagining which feet trod the floorboards, the conversations within these walls, the lives lived. My sister and I lost ourselves in the profuse gilt, blue damask and whispers from the past at @ntkedlestonhall ,the Robert Adam designed house, unusually quiet as England played Sweden that afternoon. George Curzon would receive callers in this room straight from the state bedroom next door. Through the doorway is glimpse of the round ballroom where pink-cheeked darlings twirled and skipped on the sprung floor in candlelight (then the newly invented electric light). We started with a warm scone in the garden, with house martins diving over our heads from their nests in the eaves. And ended with a walk through the woods to reach the swathe of water before the house, which was chockablock with bird life, including bevies of baby coots. Cute coots 😉 A blissful afternoon. The retro look of the @fuijifilmme XT100 ,that I’ve been given to try out, fitted in rather well. I love that it’s light and discreet but big on useful features. Brilliant image resolution that I sent straight to my phone via Bluetooth. It coped with the light and dark of this interior really well don’t you think? . In the UAE & GCC, if you buy a FujiFilm XT100 at @grandstoresdigital before 31st July, use this code to go into the draw for a tripod. TCSPR0002 #fujifilm #fujifilmxt100 #fujifilmme_xt100 #xt100 #gifted @nationaltrustA sixteenth century farmhouse with cool stone walls, homemade cake and endless cups of tea; sipped with the soothing sounds of clucking (hens) and rootling (Kune kune pigs) in the background. The rolling, patchwork countryside and proximity of enticing @nationaltrust houses lured me and my sister from our room, armed with a @fujifilmme XT100 to capture it all. It’s a great companion for travel that Fujifilm have given me to try out. So far love the ease of use, pin-sharp auto focus and eerily accurate scene recognition (eg landscape plus moving objects!) And can’t recommend our Derbyshire @airbnb - Storer Farm - highly enough. If I never return you’ll know where to find me. 📷 . In the UAE & GCC, if you buy a FujiFilm XT100 at @grandstoresdigital before 31st July, use this code to go into the draw for a tripod. TCSPR0002 #fujifilm #xt100 #fujifilmxt100 #fujifilmme_xt100 #giftedPast posts
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