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Home & GardenDecember 20, 2010

We love: Hooked on houses

By The Womens Room

We love looking round other people houses, and I always say, I only joined a book group to see the other womens houses (sorry ladies, no offence!). I also love looking at Estate agents website, either nosing around local… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 17, 2010

Readers’ reviews: Panasonic’s telly by Sue

By The Womens Room

Do you remember when we asked you all if anyone wanted to test Panasonic's new Pure Line TV and Sue's comments won you all over ?…we even had poetry. Well Sue has completed the testing and her review is below.… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 16, 2010

We love: What Katie Ate

By The Womens Room

We are huge fans of food blogs, they provide great inspiration on those days when we need an alternative to those five dishes we all cook on rotation! We espcially love food blogs that not only have great recipes, but… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenDecember 11, 2010

TWR hotel review: Hoshinoya, Kyoto, Japan

By The Womens Room

I find that Japan is not a place many people head to for their holidays, so this hotel review might seem a touch random, but on the off chance that you are ever passing by the old Japanese capital of… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 5, 2010

TWR Christmas cake 2010: cooking and decorating

By The Womens Room

Making the cake So, you have marinated your fruit in alcohol and chopped the nuts and chocolate and you have your lined cake tin all ready to go…..next, turn on the oven to gas mark 1, 140 c. Cream the… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 3, 2010

TWR Christmas cake 2010: ingredients and pre-prep.

By The Womens Room

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

By The Womens Room

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

Home & GardenNovember 23, 2010

Christmas present wish list: Gertrude Jekyll vases

By The Womens Room

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

Home & GardenNovember 21, 2010

Stir up Sunday: TWR’s Christmas cake.

By The Womens Room

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

Home & GardenNovember 15, 2010

For our dog owner readers…..

By The Womens Room

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 & Beauty, Home & GardenNovember 13, 2010

Martha Moments: magazine boot trees

By The Womens Room

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

Home & GardenNovember 10, 2010

What’s not to love? The Dyson dog hoover

By The Womens Room

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

Home & GardenNovember 4, 2010

We love: Simply breakfast

By The Womens Room

Breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day, but sometimes it can be hard to think of new and interesting things to eat. So if you find yourself in need of some breakfast inspiration, take a… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 3, 2010

Simple pleasures: Second hand books

By The Womens Room

There is something about the smell and feel of old books that is really special. The fact that they have already been read and are a little bit tatty and worn, adds to their sense of history and provenance. Barter… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 2, 2010

Martha moments: waxed flowers

By The Womens Room

Amanda went to see the film Over Your Cities, Grass Will Grow, Sophie Fiennes's film about the artist Anselm Kiefer, due to middleagedad wanting to get inspired for his art projects. We both found it hugely absorbing (well, I… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 26, 2010

Simple Pleasures: Violet

By The Womens Room

There really is nothing nicer than a cup cake and a cup of tea, and these mini cakes from Violet, one of our favourite stalls at Broadway market, are amazing. Food writer and stylist Claire Ptak, makes American style cupcakes with gorgeous… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 25, 2010

Reader testing: we need you, ladies!

By The Womens Room

No, this isn’t the Pure Line from Panasonic, I can’t get the picture of that to work this morning so we’ve got this lovely retro one instead until I can sort it out…. To start the week on a jolly… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 17, 2010

We love: Orla Kiely kitchenware

By The Womens Room

The Orla Kiely range just keeps getting better and their latest addition is definitely going on our Christmas list. If you grew up in the 70’s you will love the Hornsea potteryesque shapes, complete with wooden lids. The casserole dishes… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutOctober 8, 2010

Store alert: Labour and Wait has moved

By The Womens Room

Just to let you know, the wonderful home wear store Labour and Wait has moved to bigger premises. Once of Cheshire Street, the new store is just around the corner in super cool Redchurch Street (surely the hottest retail street… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 30, 2010

Tea time treat: What advertisers should have done with washing powder ads.

By The Womens Room

This is something to make you laugh this afternoon, I think it's genius. Makes you wonder why advertisers have spent so long trying to flog women washing powder by showing us perfect/organised/yummy mummies, when all they need to do was… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 24, 2010

Something for the weekend: London Design Festival

By The Womens Room

The garage pop up store for Studio Toogood in North Terrace, SW3 2BA, Your intrepid reporters have had a busy week this week, Jane has had her head buried in catwalks for London Fashion Week and I have been cavorting… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 16, 2010

We’re jamming…….

By The Womens Room

It's been a big year for jam in our house, due to a glut of pears and plums in the garden and the afore mentioned cherries. I have worked my jam making machine VERY hard (playing Bob Marley in the… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 7, 2010

We love: The Great British Bake off

By The Womens Room

There is indeed no greater pleasure than a freshly baked cake standing proudly on a cake stand, proving ones domestic Goddess status and filling the house with the divine smell of home making. This of course should be the case,… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 5, 2010

Readers Kitchens: Jill from East Dulwich

By The Womens Room

Who: Jill from My Friends House Where: East Dulwich, South East London What do you do in your kitchen and who with? My favourite kitchen activity is listening to a particular radio show on saturday morning (Adam & Joe, r6… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 31, 2010

OMG! TWR in a window

By The Womens Room

This Bank Holiday weekend we nipped back to Gelupo to get an ice cream fix and nearly died of excitement, as there, in the window was……can you see? Our review! Laminated and everything. Still the best ice cream, I had… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 29, 2010

We love: sprats at St John, Spitalfields

By The Womens Room

Today M.A.D and I went to view the Surreal House exhibition at the Barbican art gallery in London, it was very dull. OK, I know that's a wickedly shallow thing to say, I'm sure lots of people loved it and… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 28, 2010

Gardening Against the Odds: In memory of Elspeth Thompson

By The Womens Room

As you know we were huge fans of Elspeth Thompson. Her lovely books and blog were an inspiration to us, and by all accounts she was a very special person. Gardening was one of her passions in life and the… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 27, 2010

Flash post: Martha Stewart does dog clothes

By The Womens Room

I'm sorry about this. I JUST couldn't resist. It's a miserable wet day in London, another one. And as we head towards our final bank holiday weekend until Christmas, the forecast is not so good at all. So I thought… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 24, 2010

Style inspiration: old paintings

By The Womens Room

A while ago I started collecting old oil paintings of flowers after I had seen a lovely eclectic collection in a magazine. When grouped together it doesn't really matter what the individual paintings are like, as it's the overall effect… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 18, 2010

Style icon: Constance Spry

By The Womens Room

Constance Spry (1886 – 1960) was a florist, social reformer, teacher and best selling author. She encouraged people to make their homes look beautiful with flowers and foliage picked form hedge rows and scraps of wasteland. She used a unusual… Read More