Liz Edwards

Jan 17, 2025 | thetimes.com | Liz Edwards

Nov 30, 2024 | thetimes.com | Liz Edwards

Last time you visited friends for dinner, did you take a bottle (wine or olive oil)? When you go to stay with pals, do you ask what you can bring, maybe treat them to lunch if it’s a longer stay? If, heaven forfend, you damage something while you’re there, do you make a point of replacing it?

Nov 23, 2024 | thetimes.com | Kelly Holmes |Liz Edwards

To mark the 20th anniversary of her winning the 800m and 1,500m golds at the Athens Olympics, Dame Kelly Holmes has this year set herself 20 tasks, including trekking to Machu Picchu with her youth-development charity the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust, completing the A to Z of Parkruns and taking on the Three Peaks Challenge in St Lucia. This involves scaling Gros Piton (798m), Petit Piton (739m) and Mount Gimie (950m).

Nov 16, 2024 | thetimes.com | Ellen Himelfarb |Liz Edwards

We’d been going for a couple of hours when we rounded a corner and saw the monastery. Starting in the 8am cool, we’d kept an easy pace with our two guides, Khaled Bedual — a fortysomething mountain Bedouin who was born in a cave nearby — and the less troglodyte Ahmad Abu Hanieh. Walking fine sandy trails and cliff paths through the fantastical rock formations and juniper trees near Wadi Musa in southern Jordan, my husband, son and I resisted donkey-hire.

Nov 9, 2024 | thetimes.com | Liz Edwards

Scones are no strangers to debate. First there’s the pronunciation (let’s settle this: it rhymes with “shone”, not “shown”). Then you have the great rivalry between Devon and Cornwall over the correct approach to jam and cream (I’m team Devon: cream first). And now the latest sconetroversy is playing out in the otherwise genteel environs of the National Trust (NT) café.