Yesterday we went to new Thistle Teahouse for a light lunch in the company of close friends. I had met Maggie, the owner, some weeks ago whi...

You might wonder if a walk along Beeston's shopping streets can be described as a 'picodyssey'. Well on a day like today, walkin...

I spent an hour the past Wednesday afternoon drinking tea and eating divine cake full of large chunks of crystallised ginger which filled th...

Several folk have commented on my decision to pull the plug on Beeston Week and yesterday, after Susan and I spent the morning on a long wan...

On Thursday I finally got to have a coffee in L'Oliva and I have to admit it was a delight — a treat in fact.  You can see why. A ...

Beeston High Road's newest café , L'Oliva, got its first mention in the Nottingham Post back in February 2015 when the news re...

Another post so quick, but this is actually taken from my old Lenton based Parkviews blog , which I ended on moving to Beeston in November. ...