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Home & GardenFebruary 19, 2011

Readers Reviews: Judi checks out Dr Beckmann’s Service-It

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Regular readers will remember we called for help on testing Dr Beckmann's washing machine cleaner, and the enthusiastic super-cleaner Judi won. Her review is below, and we'd like to just say we think she's missed her calling (her day job… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 18, 2011

wine o’clock treat: London Fashion Week live in your living room!

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Go and get yourself a cup of tea, or it may even be wine o'clock by now and put your feet up, because today (and every day of fashion week) we have a very special treat. We will be bringing… Read More

Things We LoveFebruary 18, 2011

BaByliss Big Hair

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What did we ever do without Twitter to keep us up to date with everything from celebrity gossip, news, politics and trends, to who’s walking the dog in the park? We’ve said it before, but it really is the modern… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutFebruary 17, 2011

A Modern Dilemma: too many re-usable bags

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I was shopping on Saturday with youngest teenage son, we were in Puma and the nice girl behind the till asked if, for an extra £1, I'd like a reuseable bag? My response rather alarmed her…."NO! no no no no…please,… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 16, 2011

We love: The Sanderson 50’s collection

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We are huge fans of 50's and 60's furniture and are always on the look out for bargain Ercol or G Plan pieces – if there is such a thing? I am also a lover of patterned wallpaper and have… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 15, 2011

Reader review needed: Anyone have weak nails?

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We popped along to the OPI nail launch for new colours last week, and got given a couple of bottles of OPI Original Nail Envy and Avoplex Nail & Cuticle Replenishing Oil. Both Jane and I have strong nails so… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 14, 2011

Tea break treat: Fashion Central

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Last night in Grand Central Station, New York, astonished passengers were treated to their very own piece of NYFW action, when ski wear company Moncler Grenoble, staged what has to be the worlds very first fashion flash mob. More than 200 dancers staged… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 14, 2011

Readers kitchens: Debora from Stoke Newington

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Who: Debora Robertson, food writer Where: Stoke Newington, London What do you do in your kitchen and with who? We lived in our house for about four years before we built our kitchen and I'm glad we did, even though it meant at… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 13, 2011

A Vintage Valentino Valentine

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Searching through my large stash of vintage magazines, I came across this Valentine Valentino shoot (photographer Leombruno-Bodi) from Queen Feb 1968. Having spent a lot of this week avoiding a lot of dresses made from questionable quality white lace in… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 12, 2011

Tea break treat: Sassoon the movie

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When we were growing up, there was only one (literally) celebrity hairdresser and one designer shampoo, and that was Vidal Sassoon. The man who pioneered the angular cut and encouraged hairdressers to do what they thought suited clients, rather than what… Read More

Health & HappinessFebruary 12, 2011

More Valentines ideas

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Gosh anyone would think we were romantic or something!! These E-Valentines cards on the rather lovely Kate Spade website make the ideal cheap, (make that free) last minute Valentines surprise, if you forget to buy a card or can only find… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 11, 2011

We love: the Laura Ashley desert boot

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Nostalgia is a powerful selling tool. I popped into the Clarks pop up store in Regent Street this week and came face-to-face with my teenage years again. Sat proudly on the shelf was the Clarks Originals Desert Boot in Laura Ashley's… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyFebruary 10, 2011

Something to look forward to: Bill Cunningham New York

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'We all get dressed for Bill' – Anna Wintour. We have talked before about how much we love the work of New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades the 80+ photographer has been documenting the street fashion trends of… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 9, 2011

We love : Liberty’s new stationery department

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We may have mentioned before how much we LOVE all things stationery connected. Liberty opened its new stationery department yesterday and TWR (along with our mate Francesca) were the first visitors (Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen was there too, but we were there… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutFebruary 8, 2011

See this: Robert Mapplethorpe, Night Work

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White Gauze 1984 – Robert Mapplethorpe After seeing Patti Smith in conversation at the recent Intelligence Squared event, Amanda and I felt compelled to read her award winning memoir Just Kids. Written as a tribute to her lover and best… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 7, 2011

For middleagedad on Valentine’s day: Style-Your-Garage

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This only really works if you have a garage, so that rules most of us out in London, but for those lucky enough to have somewhere to keep their cardboard boxes full of stuff that should have been thrown away… Read More

Middle Aged Mum, Out & AboutFebruary 6, 2011

Middleagedmum.com: why I love libraries

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Sorry for yet another nostalgic post! I seem to be harking back to the 70’s a lot lately, but reading a post on Baroque in Hackney (a great blog if you like poetry and books) on libraries shutting, got me… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 5, 2011

Vogue: fashion in the digital age

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Navaz at Apple in Covent Garden We went along to the Vogue: Fashion in the Digital Age event at the Covent Garden Apple store on Thursday night, to listen to creative director Robin Derrick talk about creating the new Vogue… Read More

Art & CultureFebruary 4, 2011

Why we loved Thirtysomething

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If you have the new cable channel, Sky Atlantic (sadly we don't) starting this week, you will be able to watch the entire series of Thirtysomething from beginning to end. For some forty somethings this will be massive news, but… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 3, 2011

Reader testing needed!: Dr Beckmann’s Service-it

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More things to give away for testing here at TWR! This time it's washing machine cleaner from Dr Beckmann! Oh, the glamour! Now DON'T all switch off, stay with me on this, I appreciate it's not quite as fabulous as… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutFebruary 3, 2011

We love: Emily Sutton’s birds

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Blue tit by Emily Sutton Couldn't resist putting these charming little chaps up today, they are felt and embroidery bird sculptures by (clearly) very talented Emily Sutton. Our New York based reader Whitney told us about her. Emily is a recent… Read More

Middle Aged MumFebruary 2, 2011

Middleagedmum.com: It’s for me

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When I was young the phone lived in the hall, on it's own table. The only other items on the 'telephone table' as we officially called it, were the phone directories and perhaps an ashtray, as it was the 70's… Read More

Fashion & BeautyFebruary 1, 2011

We love: Prêt-à-Rêver

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Do you remember a while ago we listed our favourite websites, but moaned a bit about how internet buying was really rather dull? Well Pret-A-Rever, a new culture and shopping site launched today, might go some way to making things… Read More

Art & CultureJanuary 31, 2011

Tea time treat: Roman and Williams

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Roman and Williams have designed some of our favourite spaces. Both Amanda and I (and families) have stayed in the Ace Hotel in New York, which manages to be modern and contemporary and retain a sense of the past (it… Read More

Art & CultureJanuary 31, 2011

We love: local shops

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I came across the photographer Gabriela Hasbun recently and loved both her stunning images and the stories behind them. The Mission Street series captures the essence of the many small businesses that have provided high quality goods and services in the Mission… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 30, 2011

Reason’s why being older is a good thing

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Photo from the Little Flower School blog I have just finished Nora Ephron's I Remember Nothing, and close to the end, she comments that "Looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about fifty years… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 29, 2011

What we love from the Pre Fall Collections

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Jil Sander – all images from Style.com Pre-fall and cruise collections are becoming bigger and bigger every season, with the gap between seasons narrowing to the point where we think that perhaps the designers should give up on seasons altogether and… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 28, 2011

Tea time treat: A moment with Steve McCurry

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Grab a cup of tea and have a quiet cultural moment with us as we watch one of our favourite photographers, Steve McCurry, explain how he works. His portraits are wondrous, powerful and a constant source of inspiration for colour… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenJanuary 28, 2011

We love: The Saipua blog

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Gosh we are chatty today, you have THREE blogposts this chilly London Friday, this is the second and there's a tea time treat coming up at 4.00pm too! This one is a quickie, I've just been researching calling cards and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 28, 2011

We love: Nice changing rooms (in White Stuff, Edinburgh)

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These are the entrances to the changing rooms of the new White Stuff store in Edinburgh, how cute are they? Designed by architects AMD, the vintage wardrobe exteriors are the doors and have an Alice-in-Wonderland feel to them. Once inside… Read More