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Home & GardenOctober 12, 2009

We Love: Postcards from Battersea

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Another shameless plug for one of our friends. We cant help it if we know so many fabulously creative and talented people! Sarah is a trend researcher, who researches and writes about textiles and materials. She has an amazing eye… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 11, 2009

We love: proper butchers*

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Recently, The Women's Room found itself exhausted and needing to buy supper for four hungry men in Mayfair. Too much time spent looking in shops and not enough planning a trip to the supermarket meant we were faced with shopping for chicken… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 10, 2009

Readers kitchens: Dinah from Hammersmith

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Who: journalist Dinah Hall Where: Hammersmith What do you do in your kitchen and who with? I cook with Nigel Slater and feed his heterosexual look-alike, my husband, whose cooking skills sadly bear no resemblance whatsoever to my culinary hero. When our… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 7, 2009

We love: Christoph Neimann

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Christoph Neimann We are big admirers of illustrators here at The Women's Room, we love Rob Ryan and hope everyone is loving our new picture of us by young artist Levanah Gates (in the top right corner of the… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 6, 2009

Readers Kitchens: Louise from Kensal Rise

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Who: Trend Forecaster, Louise Where: Kensal Rise What do you do in your kitchen and who with? Although I have a large sitting room, the kitchen seems to be the only place where I hang out with my friends and family… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 2, 2009

Modern dillema: to tumble dry or not?

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We've been having an ongoing debate here at the Womens Room about one of the more important things in life. To tumble dry or not? I am dead against them and love to peg out and Amanda is in two… Read More

Food, Home & Garden, We Are ReadingSeptember 26, 2009

Battenberg Britain by Nigel Cassidy and Philippa Lamb

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Do you secretly long for a Fray Bentos Steak pie, love a Vesta curry, think there is nothing better than a fish finger sandwich followed by a slice of Arctic Roll? Then you must have been a child in the… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingSeptember 18, 2009

We Love: The Front Room

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You know how fascinated we are here at the Womens Room with interior style. We love everything from the most stylish to the most eccentric, the only we thing we don't like is boring. There is nothing more disappointing than… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenSeptember 17, 2009

Shopping with experts: Cabbages & Roses

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Who knew Epsom salts were the cure for everything? Cabbages & Roses apparently, who were kind enough to give us a giant size packet of them to celebrate the brand opening in six Jigsaw branches around the UK from this… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 16, 2009

We Love: Proper Afternoon Tea

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Last week we were drinking tea in the Covent Garden Hotel and found ourselves sitting next to Ronnie Wood. All normal conversation immediately ceased as we speculated whether he was drinking alcohol, who he was calling on his mobile and… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 13, 2009

Buy this: Labour and Wait’s computer brush

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We love our computers here at The Women's Room but hate the fact that they don't quite blend in with the rustic French kitchen table and polished oak pew chairs, and we hate the fact that the printer, hard drive,… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 12, 2009

Shopping with experts: Sewing boxes

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We like to think we are ahead of the curve here at the Womens Room and we pride ourselves on our ability to identify what we think consumers will want in the future. Our current love of crafts and make… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 10, 2009

We Love: Culturelabel

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It seems a little early to be talking about Christmas presents, but one can never be too organized and it can take time to find original and interesting presents. So it's worth taking a look at CultureLabel.com, a new website… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 9, 2009

Readers Kitchens: Lindsey in Pembrokeshire

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Who: Interior designer Lindsey Howell Where: Pembrokeshire, Wales What do you do in your kitchen and who with? No one knocks on our front door anymore, everyone comes around to the kitchen door. I think this is fantastic, especially when… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 7, 2009

We love: cherry tree rental

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This weekend there's been a distinct autumn chill in the air and we're sad, as it means that the end of summer is nigh. Not that it's been the blistering barbecue one we were promised, but we have had fun in… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutSeptember 6, 2009

Coming Soon: Julie and Julia

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If you love food and recipe books and fancy a girls night out at the movies or a really good read, buy Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously or go and see Julie and Julia, which opens on the 11th of… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 3, 2009

We love: John Lewis’s Make Do and Mend

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The new John Lewis update (left) and the original 1940s pamphlet, available from the Imperial War Museum (right) Everyone’s at this home-made lark. Yesterday we told you about the Make Lounge and then we found out that John Lewis has… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & Garden, Out & AboutSeptember 2, 2009

We love: The Make Lounge

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Lavender Bakery cupcakes for The Make Lounge September is the month when ones thoughts turn to the Autumn and Winter months ahead and the plans you made (on that sunbed in france!) to do something useful with your spare time. … Read More

Food, Home & Garden, We Are ReadingAugust 30, 2009

The Diner Journal

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Diner Journal, produced by the owners of the Diner restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, is a sweet quarterly magazine full of musings on all things food related. The restaurant, which opened in 1998, is owned by Mark Firth and Andrew… Read More

Food, Home & Garden, We Are ReadingAugust 28, 2009

Food from your Garden by Readers Digest

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Recently we looked at our favourite cookery books and it was pretty clear that Reader’s Digest books are worth investing in as Jane and I have at least one in each of our favourites list. Well, after a trip… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 26, 2009

We are cooking: Dundee Cake

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As we mentioned earlier this month, we're never getting our bottoms botoxed, there would be no point, because the amount of cake we eat would make it a waste of time (not to mention the almond Magnums). So while others… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 22, 2009

Middleagedad loves: The Wattson

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Middleagedad has a new gadget, the Wattson, which is a clever little device that measures your electricity consumption in watts and converts it into £s so you can see how much your electricity is costing you. Middleagemum likes it because… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 21, 2009

Simple Pleasures: Home grown vegetables

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This summer everyone we know seems to have a vegetable garden. Even our friends with tiny backyards (now known as yardens, more about them to come soon!) have rejected flora and fauna in favour of tomato plants, herbs, courgettes and the… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 17, 2009

We love: The Horticulturalist

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Lisa White author of The Horticulturalist describes her blog as "a organic entity, and my intention is to disseminate ideas and inseminate inspiration across the board, showing how the vegetal world influences the creative design world and vice versa: how a garden… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 11, 2009

We love: The Selvedge Shop

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We are big fans of Selvedge magazine, for it's eclectic view of the textile world and those who inhabit it and we have written about before here. They have now opened a shop in North London, selling their unique range of… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 5, 2009

Simple pleasures: Haberdashery

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One of the simple pleasures of my childhood (and now my daughters) was to root through my mums endless bags of bits of fabric, yarn, ribbon, old buttons and buckles, ancient tins of hooks and eyes and pins, some inherited… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 4, 2009

Readers’ Kitchens: Sarah from Dulwich

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Who: Sarah, avid reader & fan of The Women's Room Where: a 1966 bungalow in leafy Dulwich, a cricket ball throw from the college What do in your kitchen and who with? Unmodernised 1966 bungalow with 1970s style ‘open plan’… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutAugust 2, 2009

We love: RE

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The Women’s Room was in Northumberland this week enjoying the beautiful countryside and surprisingly great weather. We also searched out a great shop we’d been reading about for ages, RE, tucked away behind the Shell garage in Corbridge. It’s uninspiring… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 27, 2009

Readers kitchens: Massimo Del Carlo

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OK, so this isn't a real reader's kitchen, it's an art installation we saw when we were at the Art Biennale in Venice a couple of weekends ago, but we think they may have got the idea from our… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 17, 2009

Readers kitchens: Sue in Chelsea

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Who: Sue Where: flat 4 floors up above the roaring traffic, hospital sirens and braying Sloanes on the Fulham Road in Chelsea. It seemed a romantic place to move to 25 years ago, but clicking knee joints and a Freedom… Read More