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Home & GardenDecember 3, 2010

TWR Christmas cake 2010: ingredients and pre-prep.

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This Christmas we are making a recipe that originally came from a 1997 Sainsbury's Magazine article by Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray from The River Cafe. It's called Dada's Christmas cake with chocolate. It is partly in tribute to the… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutDecember 2, 2010

Something for the weekend (and tonight): Christmas past at the Geffrye Museum

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We have mentioned before how much we love the Geffrye Museum. Set in London's East End, the small but perfectly formed museum devoted to domestic interiors through the ages, never fails to inspire. It is particularly lovely at this time… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 1, 2010

We love: Mint Velvet for summer

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I know it seems totally crazy to put this summer dress up now, as the icy wind of winter whips us into a frenzy of woolly layering, but as we keep telling you, fashion works in weird ways. For the… Read More

Health & Happiness, Out & AboutNovember 30, 2010

We love: The Ministry of Stories

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826 Valencia is the brainchild of writer Dave Eggers (Author of the fabulous, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). The project encourages young people to try out creative writing by taking part in workshops, word games and one-to-one sessions with… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 29, 2010

Christmas wish list: Ormonde Jayne’s Gold Creme

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The festive window at the new Ormonde Jayne store There's a nice new shop in Sloane Square for perfume lovers, Ormonde Jayne, the perfumery created by Linda Pilkington. It is the second stand alone store for the brand, which has… Read More

Art & CultureNovember 28, 2010

We love: Olha Pryymak

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We thought writing a blog post every day was quite an undertaking, but it's nothing in comparrison to artist Olha Pryymak, who paints a picture every day. We came across her on one of our favourite blogs Spitalfields Life and loved her… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 27, 2010

Style icons from Arcadia: Gordon Richardson

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This is Gordon from Topman, where he is design director. We LOVE Gordon’s style, every time we see him he is rocking a completely new look and it’s always brilliantly executed. At Arcadia’s press day last week it was -unusually… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 26, 2010

Middleagedmum.com: Fight the good fight

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After the first protests about the education cuts, I question teen son about why all his friends went and he didn't. 'I had media studies and I thought you would be annoyed if I skipped school'. Clearly I have done… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 25, 2010

Something for the weekend: House of Voltaire

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House of Voltaire helpers, including the lovely Michael Landy (right) For a distinctly more stylish approach to Christmas shopping, can we recommend The House of Voltaire? In this rather chic pop up shop above Rupert Sanderson's shoe store in Bruton… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 24, 2010

The London dogs will know!

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When teen son was little, one of his favourite films was 101 Dalmations and we spent many a wintery afternoon on the sofa watching it. MAD and I came to know the script off by heart and one of our… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 23, 2010

Christmas present wish list: Gertrude Jekyll vases

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These are GORGEOUS. It's too greedy to want them all so we're going to have to whittle the choice down to just one. Jane and I have a total weakness for vases (Jane has a beautiful collection that I am… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 22, 2010

Something to make you smile on a Monday morning!

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This advert for a fashion outlet village in Sicily, shows how the local villagers lives will change after the mall opens. Now we know where we want to retire!!… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 21, 2010

Style icons from Arcadia: Yasmin Yusuf

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While at the Arcadia press day this week, we bumped into Yasmin Yusuf, design director of Miss Selfridge. She is a vintage hippy chick at heart (we think) and always look good so we like to check out what she's… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 21, 2010

Stir up Sunday: TWR’s Christmas cake.

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The Poppy Seed Bakery's Christmas cake, if you don't want to make your own Although it is stir up Sunday, when we are all supposed to get cracking with our Christmas cakes and puddings, this year at TWR we are… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 20, 2010

We love: Hilary’s jewellery

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Fashion Editor of the Daily Telegraph, Hilary Alexander, has to be one of the most hardworking fashion editors in the industry. She is also reputed to be very nice and is an excellent Tweeter – assuming she actually does it… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 19, 2010

We love: Wallis for spring 2011

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It was Arcadia press day this week and we were thrilled to see Wallis looking so VERY on trend for next summer (possibly more than some of the hotter younger labels in the Arcadia stable, but we'd better not say… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 17, 2010

Christmas wish list: Rae Jones bags

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Our lovely friend Rachel has gone and done it again. Not only does she make gorgeous shoes, she has now designed a beautiful bag range. We are loving this toffee coloured doctors bag, because lets face it, a girl can… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 17, 2010

We love: Adorn London

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The Marni brooch, £165 we're soooo putting this one straight on our Christmas list…. We met up with Adorn London's lovely founder Juliet Hutton Squire recently and were bowled over by her enthusiasm and knowledge for all things jewellery orientated. Being… Read More

Art & CultureNovember 16, 2010

We love: ‘Dr’ Gillian on I’m a Celebrity

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As you know, I have a serious reality TV addiction and may have to get it seen to at some point, but for the next couple of weeks at least, I will be glued to the new series of I'm… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 15, 2010

For our dog owner readers…..

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This is Kay’s dog (from Mason Dixon) Olive, wearing her doggy lady Gaga Halloween hat, which Kay has knitted for her. Of course she has. (Pattern details on the MD blog…imagine it red…doggy Christmas? Watch out Archie….)… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 15, 2010

When trends go wrong……

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……and you end up with a lot of the same thing. Amanda's teenagesons used to love a lumberjack shirt, I reckon all three of them were buying into the trend for about 18 months, consequently when I took stock of… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 14, 2010

We love: Ralph Lauren 4D

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This week luxury fashion brands and journalists gathered together to discuss the future of the industry at the International Herald Tribune conference, The Future of luxury. We followed the conference on Twitter and at times it felt like we were… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenNovember 13, 2010

Martha Moments: magazine boot trees

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I have more pairs of boots than is good for me, I am happy to hold my hands up to this fact and I am often wracked with guilt at the appallingly uncaring way I treat them. Having spent what… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyNovember 12, 2010

Does fashion care?

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This weeks Channel 4 programme Dispatches exposed the terrible working conditions of workers in the UK garment industry and really got us thinking. Early in my career as a designer I went to India and saw children working in factories,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 11, 2010

We love: Grossmith perfumes

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When Amanda's MAD decided he wanted to retire early and become an artist, I tried to think positive thoughts about him being happy and creatively fulfilled and not 'Oh dear, I wonder if this means less money for clothes?' I… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 10, 2010

What’s not to love? The Dyson dog hoover

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A new puppy is the perfect excuse to enter a whole new world of shopping opportunities. Teen daughter and I have been prowling the pet shops of North and East London in search of the perfect collar, which we finally… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 9, 2010

Reader testers needed: Méthode Jeanne Piaubert

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Last week it was books and TVs we were giving away, this week its beauty serums, we're working hard for you here on TWR….. We have been kindly offered three bottles of Méthode Jeanne Piaubert's Radical Firmness Serum to test… Read More

Art & CultureNovember 8, 2010

We are fascinated by: Women on Fifth

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Visiting New York this summer, I was fascinated by the number of older women who had very obvious surgery. The first generation to embrace cosmetic enhancment on a grand scale, these women seem to be the victims of the early… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 7, 2010

We love: Mimi

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Neither Jane nor I are blingy bag fans, we both favour the understated loveliness of Ally Capellino and Jas MB. I am a huge fan of satchels, with those pockety compartments and that sturdy structure, not to mention the essential… Read More

Health & Happiness, Out & AboutNovember 6, 2010

Alternative Christmas Shopping in London

By The Womens Room

The Last years Craftacular in Bethanl Green (the red velvet cupcake was divine!) There is no getting away from it, Christmas is rapidly approaching (48 days away, to be precise) and if you don't want to be running around like… Read More