Sunday, March 20, 2005

Lowry, fish and cock.

1. Fenella, Andy and I took an afternoon stroll across the Common. It's the first really hot day of the year and the place was packed with people disporting themselves on the rocks, batting balls around on the cricket pitch and loving feeling the sun on their skin. It looked like a Lowry painting. We finished up with a bottle of wine in a pub garden. Summer is on its way.

2. There is a new sushi place in Tunbridge Wells - it's called Kitsu and it's really very good. Caroline and I took sushi virgin Ian along and force fed him stunningly fresh raw salmon. 'It doesn't taste of fish at all,' he commented. Kitsu is on Victoria Street - round the back of the shopping centre, and the phone number is 01892 515510.

3. Watching cocktails being mixed by a pro.

Escape, tulips and samosa.

1. This morning, I'm piling into a car with friends to escape into the Weald, where we will visit a garden planted with 45,000 tulips. 2...