Because she is doing a 15 mile charity run to raise money to thank Great Ormond Street Hospital for saving her little sister’s life when she was only seven weeks old. Now six years older, healthy Natasha has just had a nasty accident in their local park, cutting her head badly. While Mum Camilla drove
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It would have been Florence Nightingale’s birthday today. This great doyen of the Crimean War and nursing reform ranks among the greatest of British reformers and is remembered with great respect and honour. Further to her other great achievements, Florence Nightingale greatly influenced the design of the 1872 St Thomas’ Hospital with its innovative ‘pavilion
Ok, so it’s not exclusively mine, but I do love being able to use it most days. It’s at the nearby Grange City 5* Hotel and the jacuzzi, steam room and sauna are equally marvellous to use- just switch off for an hour or two, while keeping fit. Actually it is surprisingly cheap to be
I am pleased to reproduce some aspects of my previous book because people keep asking questions about St Katharine’s, and important to me is spreading the message of the historical importance of this wonderful area which is also my home. The reason I wrote the book was only because noone else had brought the
Snow in this country always seems to be the height of drama one day- then suddenly it’s all gone and we wonder what the fuss was about. St Katharine Docks looks so extra beautiful covered in snow, so does nearby Tower Bridge and the Tower of London- the pictures speak for themselves. If only people
Surprisingly, the temperature was warm each day; if I had wanted, I could have sat in the the sun for at least five hours each day. I still didn’t need a jumper in the shade, and the evenings were quite mild. Staying just outside Albufeira, it was ideal for walking (though you do need a
While constructing Tower Bridge, Dead Man’s Hole was built and designed to retrieve corpses which were dumped in the Thames or washed up there. Next to the steps down to the water, is a small mortuary, which was used for post mortems and to keep the bodies, also used by police, until they could be