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Fashion & BeautyJanuary 10, 2018

Buying Less: New Year Rules For Clothes

By Amanda

Not wanting to start the year with too much self-celebration but…small drum roll here please…I did it! A whole year of buying Nothing New. I didn’t buy any new clothes in 2017, despite a late trip to (very tempting) India… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 8, 2018

Trend Alert: Long dresses and why you need one

By Jane

Long dresses – particularly long printed dresses have never been my ‘thing’. But as we all know fashion has a way of persuading us that something previously filled us with horror can almost over night, become a object of desire.… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 22, 2017

A Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year To All

By Amanda

We are winding down for the year today, and wish you all a really joyous and peaceful festive season, where ever you are. We have the most wonderful readers on TWR and are so thrilled that you read us, leave… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 20, 2017

Guest Post: Denim Expert Sue Barrett on The Great

By Amanda

We’re excited to introduce you to the ultra stylish denim expert Sue Barrett, who is our new guest blogger on all things indigo. Sue is one of the trend forecasting world’s most respected denim heads and because she’s a proper… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 18, 2017

Last Minute Present Suggestions: The Vanity Fair Diaries and Vogue

By Amanda

Just in case you are searching around for last minute present ideas, I can thoroughly recommend the gossipy, fast-paced, style-nostalgia trip through the eighties and early nineties that is The Vanity Fair Diaries, written by Tina Brown. It’s a detailed… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 13, 2017

Emergency Cold Weather Sweaters To Consider

By Amanda

I’ve nearly done a whole year of Buying Nothing, I can’t believe how fast the time has gone, but come January 2018 one of the first items on my list will be a piece of knitwear that will keep me… Read More

Health & Happiness, Middle Aged MumDecember 11, 2017

Middelagedmum.com: The Importance of Friends

By Jane

I’ve been a little quiet on the blogging front lately as I’ve needed to take some time for myself – to reflect and focus on the real things in life that matter to me. Apart from immediate family, female friends… Read More

Art & CultureDecember 5, 2017

Some magazines to love

By Jane

Growing up without the internet and only three channels on the tv, meant magazines were a monthly visual & editorial treat providing all the need to know information and styling inspiration our generation could want. Nowadays I rarely buy womens… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessNovember 30, 2017

A Scented and Healing Fog Cloud To Help You Keep Sane During Festive Madness

By Amanda

Last week I voluntarily sat in a cloud of delicately scented fog, fully clothed, while listening to an abstract, slightly beach-influenced sound track that gave me a moment of coastal calm in an otherwise mad week. I appreciate this might… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 28, 2017

Menopausal Beer From Libeeration

By Amanda

I can not believe we missed the press release by The Portsmouth Brewery from New Hampshire, about its new brew Libeeration Beer, which claims to ease menopausal symptoms. Its a lovely idea, the gruit style ale has replaced the hops… Read More

Food, We Are ReadingNovember 27, 2017

Cook Yourself Happy by Caroline Fleming

By Amanda

Are we over Skandi stuff yet? I ask because if we’re not, then this new cookery book by Danish lifestyle blogger and model Caroline Fleming might suit a millennial near you as a festive present. Caroline is one of those… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutNovember 27, 2017

The Lovely Rakes Progress Pop Up Shop in Floral Street

By Amanda

Way back at the beginning of 2017 we told you about Rakes Progress, a fab, newish quarterly which put a beautiful contemporary spin on what gardening magazine should look like. Excitingly, the editorial team has made the magazine come to… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutNovember 24, 2017

Guest Blogger Polly Leonard from Selvedge Talks Christmas and Festive Decoration

By Amanda

TWR’s friend Polly Leonard, founder of Selvedge magazine, is always full of bright ideas for artful gifts at Christmas, so when she offered to do a guest post on how she was tackling the festive season, from decorating to gifting,… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenNovember 22, 2017

Cosy PJs and Sleepwear from Gudrun Sjödén

By Amanda

I am a proud ambassador for the Swedish brand Gudrun Sjoden, mostly because I really like Gudrun herself and I am extremely impressed with what she has achieved as a grown up, creative woman who runs a very successful brand.… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 21, 2017

Special Offer Klaxon! La Montana Candles and Its Clever Scent Cards

By Amanda

I’m a huge fan of La Montana scented candles, from the delicious fragrances and the artful illustrations to the evocative stories surrounding founder Cassandra Hall’s Spanish village home, on which the brand is based, it all makes me want to… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 20, 2017

Empowering Women On Your Christmas Tree and Cards

By Amanda

We loved these alternative festive tree angels from the not-for-profit organisation Women To Look Up To. If you are fed up with the fey-looking fairy on your tree, replace her with someone a little more bad-ass and empowering this year.… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutNovember 15, 2017

Seed to Bottle Beauty with Parterre and L’Officine Universelle Buly

By Amanda

A couple of lovely new brands/stores to tell you about today. Firstly a new British fragrance brand Parterre, which is exceptional in that it is growing and distilling many of its fragrance ingredients at its historic headquarters, Keyneston Mills in… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessNovember 10, 2017

A Few Good Reads for Grown Up Women

By Amanda

In the week where the new Vogue was born and the head count of grown up women between its pages reached a heady…..seven, (not including the adverts) we went searching for a few more relevant-to-us reads to keep us busy.… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 7, 2017

The Ethicurean On The Roof at John Lewis

By Amanda

I have been to John Lewis in Oxford Street more times than I can remember. The haberdashery department it is my happy place to go to whenever I have time to kill and I can often be found offering advice… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyNovember 3, 2017

The Sari Series, Inspiration For Textile Fans And Scarf Wearers Everywhere.

By Amanda

Sometimes the stars align in a quietly satisfying way and things fall so neatly into place that you do wonder if there IS an actual big plan. Middleson has (at last, he is 25 after all) left home, he has… Read More

Art & Culture, Home & Garden, Out & AboutNovember 1, 2017

Autumn Joy

By Jane

October is my favourite month of the year. The impending chill in the air, opportunities to layer clothes and wrap up, lighting candles and fires, making soup, Halloween and Bonfire Night, the changing light and the colours of nature all… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenOctober 25, 2017

Inspiring Grown Up Women: Kristina Karlsson from kiki.K

By Amanda

What is it about the Swedes? They seem to have been scattered with just a bit more style dust than the rest of us. That’s what I was thinking when I met up with Kristina Karlsson, founder of kiki.K, the… Read More

Middle Aged MumOctober 23, 2017

Middleagedmum.com: Should all internships be paid?

By Jane

Many of our readers will have children who are about to enter the workplace, either straight from school or after completing a degree and if they are thinking of a career in the media or the creative industries they may… Read More

Things We LoveOctober 23, 2017

Fashion Families, ‘Go Fish’ for Fashion Fans

By Amanda

If you are the type of family that views autumnal evenings as incomplete without a board or card game played around the kitchen table, then the new Fashion Families may well be for you. If members of your family are… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 18, 2017

Mantlescaping and Tablescaping for Autumn

By Amanda

After Frieze Art Fair last week I popped over to the Decorative Antiques and Textile Fair in Battersea Park. I’d always wanted to go but never had, this season I rectified that and picked up a few decorative tips. After… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingOctober 17, 2017

The Secret Gardeners by Victoria Summerley

By Amanda

Oh my, this is a fabulous book for anyone who is a teeny bit nosy (in a Hello! crossed with Gardener’s World kinda way) and loves gardens. The Secret Gardeners, Britain’s creatives reveal their private sanctuaries is by Victoria Summerley… Read More

Out & AboutOctober 16, 2017

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: Notes On Manhattan

By Amanda

Our guest blogger Elena Bowes has finally moved into her new apartment, but is finding things are a little different from the last time she lived in Manhattan. Love seems to dictate where I live. I moved to London three… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 12, 2017

Frieze Fashion (and a bit of art) 2017

By Amanda

It’s hard to believe we’ve been writing up Frieze London Fashion since 2010, so much art and so many clothes! In Jane’s excellent Frieze Colour yesterday, she mentions she’s a little cynical about the art and the insanely rich people… Read More

UncategorizedOctober 11, 2017

Frieze colour 2017

By Jane

Not wanting to dumb the art at Frieze down or anything, but does anyone else feel a little bit cynical about some of the so called art and the insanely rich people buying it? It can feel like more of… Read More

Food, We Are ReadingOctober 6, 2017

The Flexible Vegetarian by Jo Pratt

By Amanda

When I first read The Flexible Vegetarian I wasn’t sure it was different enough to suggest you bought it, after all we’ve all got enough cookery books, recommending a new one requires it to have a strong point of difference.… Read More