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Out & AboutApril 2, 2011

Something for the weekend: Selvedge Spring Fair

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We are VERY excited about going to the Selvedge Spring Fair today, the love child of World of Interiors crossed with the W.I (well in our vivid imaginations anyway). We're going, if you are too follow us on Twitter and… Read More

Things We LoveApril 1, 2011

The House of Hackney

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If you are fan of minimal interiors, look away now, as this is about as over the top as it gets. The fabulous new luxury interior company, House of Hackney launched yesterday with a pop up shop in Dalston. It’s… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 31, 2011

Style Icon: Katharine Whitehorn

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We went to another Semple Secrets last night, the last in the immediate series and goodness we have enjoyed them. We thought Grayson Perry was un top-able, but the quietly elegant Katharine Whitehorn, journalist and all round female style/brain icon… Read More

Food, Home & Garden, We Are ReadingMarch 30, 2011

Supper Club by Kerstin Rodgers

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Ms Marmitelover and her stunning dishes at the Fire and Knives food event We featured the founder of the Secret supper club movement Ms Marmitelover – aka Kerstin Rodgers – in readers kitchens back in December 2009, as we loved… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 29, 2011

Shopping with experts: Denham’s victorian jacket

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I love this Camino jacket by Amsterdam based Denham the Jeanmaker, a brand fast becoming a new favourite. Part biker jacket, part Downton Abbey maid, when the picture arrived in my email I was instantly smitten, and then I… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 28, 2011

We love: Fabulous location houses

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If like us, you love to look round interesting houses for inspiration, we have found just the site for you. I stumbled across JJLocations yesterday and lost a couple of hours nosing around some truly fabulous places. Set up 1987 by… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 27, 2011

Family stories: It’s in the genes

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As I get older I am conscious that the storytellers in my family are all dying off. Aunts, grandparents and even parents are disappearing at an alarming rate and if I'm not careful all the wonderful memories that make up… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingMarch 26, 2011

Creative Walls and Modern Vintage by Geraldine James

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Geraldine James, the author of Creative Walls, started her career in fashion and is now the Homeware Buying Manager at Selfridges. She is also a collector of beautiful things. Lots of our friends work in design and buying and have… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 25, 2011

We love: Cocomaya’s seed bread

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Writing about food, which I don't normally do, is very enjoyable because you get to eat! This week I popped into Cocomaya, the artisanal chocolate and bakery store, to chat to the delightful Walid Al Damirji, one of the co… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyMarch 24, 2011

We don’t just love, we adore: Advanced Style and Nowness

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We have mentioned before, how much we love the fabulous stylish older women Ari Seth Cohen features on his Advanced Style blog. He recently collaborated with film maker Lina Plioplyte, to create a short film featuring some of his favourite… Read More

Art & CultureMarch 23, 2011

Sad to see you go: Elizabeth Taylor

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Photograph from March 1972 Cosmopolitan, photographer unlisted I have to hand the first ever issue of UK Cosmopolitan, from March 1972, where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton give an interview ten years into their marriage (they were to divorce two… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 23, 2011

My Heart Wanders by Pia Jane Bijkerk

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Pia Jane Bijkerk, from Enhance the Everyday It’s all about lovely things to look at the moment…quite independently Jane and I have selected this week to write about nice books we’ve seen (there’s a nice one coming tomorrow too)…I’m sure… Read More

Art & CultureMarch 22, 2011

Tea break treat: Double Exposure

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Double Exposure is an innovative digital film project that encapsulates one of the world’s oldest image making techniques with contemporary on-line distribution. Created by Louis Vuitton, the first of the series of films features conceptual artist and filmmaker, Sam Taylor-Wood.… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutMarch 22, 2011

We love: Robert Clarke’s A – Z of Dogs

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I am well aware I am in danger of becoming a dog bore. I will wax lyrical to anyone who will listen, about how wonderful it is to own a dog, and have even started a rather worrying collection of… Read More

Health & Happiness, We Are ReadingMarch 21, 2011

The Anti-Ageing Beauty Bible by Sarah Stacey & Josephine Fairley

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I am a bit late to the party that is the Beauty Bible organisation that Josephine Fairley and Sarah Stacey have run for the last 15 years (that’s how long they’ve been working together). When we received a copy of… Read More

Middle Aged MumMarch 20, 2011

Middleagedmum.com: working girls

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For the last two weeks teen daughter and her friends have been experiencing what its like to go to work. As part of the state school curriculum, students are required to do two weeks work experience in year 10. The… Read More

Things We LoveMarch 19, 2011

Levi’s Made & Crafted perfect white shirt

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Tipped off by the lovely Disneyrollergirl, I popped into the wee Levi Vintage store on Newburgh Street this week to check out the brand’s new Made & Crafted range, and found the perfect white shirt. I love the little Levi… Read More

Things We LoveMarch 18, 2011

New Look’s denim tunic

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We are huge fans of the tunic dress, it covers a multitude of sins and can be worn over cigarette leg trousers, coloured tights or skinny jeans if you dare do ‘double denim’. We love the Stella McCartney take on… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 17, 2011

Skin Science: TWR product review

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You know it’s good when you do this to the bottles to get EVERY LAST DROP out. Jane’s reviewCall me cynical but I honestly don’t believe there is any difference between Ponds cold cream and Creme De La Mer. Well… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 16, 2011

We love: BOOM

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Remember a while ago I wrote about how my GBF and I would love to create a retirement home for gay men and women. Well it seems someone else has had the same idea and our fantasy is to become… Read More

Out & AboutMarch 15, 2011

COS and Clifton: match made in heaven?

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In what seem’s a match made in heaven to us, our favourite retailer COS has teamed up with the super chic garden centre Clifton Nurseries to host a pop up plant shop in the Regent Street store. Although this is… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 15, 2011

Watch before buying, a new way to shop?

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At the beginning of this year I made a decision to start selling off my wardrobe on eBay. I had never sold anything before on the site although I'd often bought clothes, but once I figured it out, I was… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 14, 2011

We love: organising the bookshelf

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This lovely video has been doing the rounds on some of our favourite blogs recently, and we thought you might quite like it too. Being big fans of arranging things, we love the slightly obsessive (but visually pleasing) nature of… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutMarch 13, 2011

See this: Yohji Yamamoto at the V & A

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We are huge fans of Japanese designers and love nothing more than an asymmetric/deconstructed/androgynous, design lecturer type garment, so were really looking forward to visiting the new exhibition at the V & A celebrating the life and work of one… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutMarch 12, 2011

We love: Grayson Perry at Semple’s Secrets

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Grayson, holding up his Essex made ‘setalevvas’ one of the first things he ever had custom made, paid for by his wife. We went to hear the artist Grayson Perry on Wednesday night, he was speaking at another Semple Secrets.… Read More

Out & AboutMarch 11, 2011

See this: Death of a Nightingale

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Thanks for all the kind messages about Max at the weekend. You might like to know he’s just started in a play, Death of a Nightingale, by Alan Share, for the next month at Hampstead’s New End Theatre. It’s on… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessMarch 11, 2011

Reality mannequins: do we really want them?

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Last week I spent a lot of time looking at the future of store design and display at Euroshop, a once-every-three-year show held in Dusseldorf, Germany, about all things retail. It’s exhausting but fascinating, especially if you are mad about… Read More

Health & Happiness, Out & AboutMarch 10, 2011

We love: the Idler Academy

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It seems shops are no longer just about buying stuff, we can also drink coffee, eat cakes and even learn something. We love The School of Life and are glad to see this has inspired a new retail and learning concept,… Read More

Out & AboutMarch 9, 2011

See this: Susan Hiller at Tate Britain

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Part of Susan Hiller’s From the Freud Museum 1992-7 I’m not great at conceptual art, I prefer art where I can see and appreciate the skill and workmanship. I understand this is currently a very old fashioned thing to say… Read More

Health & Happiness, Out & AboutMarch 8, 2011

International Womens Day: Why we love women

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International Women’s day started in the Soviet Union in the early 1920’s as a way for European women to highlight their solidarity and commitment to equal economic and political rights, and to celebrate their contribution to society. While we may… Read More