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Food, We Are ReadingApril 20, 2017

London, The Cook Book by Cara Frost-Sharratt

By Amanda

Since we all now have enough cookery books to last a couple of lifetimes (it’s not just me, of that I’m sure) publishers are coming up with new hybrids of the form to keep us buying. So we have London,… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 3, 2017

Guest Blogger Elena Bowes: The Best Apps That New Yorkers Love

By Amanda

Our regular guest blogger Elena is making a big life change for 2017, she’s (semi) moving to New York, where no one does anything without checking an app first. But which ones to use? She shares her tips on the… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutJanuary 25, 2017

A Glorious Textile Holiday With Selvedge Magazine.

By Amanda

If you are planning your summer holiday and want something a little more interesting than just toasting on a beach (although wouldn’t a bit of heat right now be great?), can we point you to our friends at Selvedge Magazine,… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutSeptember 6, 2016

Top five things to do in Berlin

By Jane

Berlin is a laid back, creative city, rich in culture and thought provoking history. The wide streets, filled with cyclists and non aggressive drivers, huge apartments and green spaces, made me question how impossible London has become, as ridiculous property… Read More

Art & CultureSeptember 2, 2016

A night out in Berlin

By Jane

While Amanda has been pottering about amongst amazing vintage collections in deepest mid America (worryingly I can see my kids having to turn my house into a museum one day!) I have been enjoying the sun in London and Switzerland… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 25, 2016

Guest Blog: Elena Bowes visits Hayward House

By Amanda

Apologies, Elena and I had a bit of a techie glitch on her Friday post with images, she visited two shops for us in her New York Like A Local blogpost series, so here is what happened in part two… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutJuly 1, 2016

Guest Blog: Elena Bowes visits John Derian

By Amanda

In this next post from our New York Like A Local series, Elena Bowes visits one of my all time favourite NYC stores, John Derian, tucked away down on East Second Street, an inspirational place for anyone who likes making… Read More

Out & AboutApril 15, 2016

Guest Blog: Elena Bowes visits Three Lives & Co in New York

By Amanda

Our regular guest blogger Elena Bowes has been out and about discovering hidden gems in New York for us, this week it’s Three Lives & Company, if you are visiting this year, be sure to bookmark this charming little store.… Read More

Health & HappinessMarch 11, 2016

Romance And Air Miles: Mid-Life Love

By Amanda

One of our guest bloggers, cultural writer Elena Bowes, is doing a series of posts on New York stores, since although being based in London, she’s frequently in New York. When I asked why she was lucky enough to pop… Read More

Fashion & BeautySeptember 2, 2015

Storytelling with clothes: a trip to Devon

By Amanda

This weekend I went to Devon to see my 83 year old dad and his (very slightly) younger sister, my aunt. We do very little, just sit around my aunt’s kitchen table reminiscing, eating Cornish pasties (my aunt makes the… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 7, 2015

Summer Holidays at The Women’s Room

By Amanda

It’s summer holiday time here at TWR, Jane and I are off on our annual summer break for a bit of R&R, we’re back with you on Monday 20th July. Although TBH we’re never that far away from you, we’ll… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 6, 2015

Guest Blogger Jane Brocket: Shingle and Chips, A Short Guide To Aldeburgh

By Amanda

We are thrilled to have Jane Brocket guest blogging today, she’s still on her Grand Provincial Tour around Britain’s towns and cities, gathering information for more of her delightful Pocket Brocket guides. Today she’s looking at Aldeburgh. Flat marshes, shingle… Read More

Art & CultureJune 1, 2015

Venice: more art from the Biennale, plus a few travel tips

By Amanda

For anyone wanting to visit Venice, I’d urge you to go off season (don’t even think about August) and to consider staying away from the main drag, on either the Dorsoduro or the Guidecca. We stayed at La Calcina, a… Read More

Home & GardenMay 29, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Food Tales from Scotland

By Amanda

More from our guest food blogger Jo Orr and this weeks she’s in roaming and foraging in Scotland I have travelled 500 miles north to spend the Half Term school holiday with my parents and varied guests in their rambling,… Read More

Art & CultureMay 28, 2015

Women artists at The Venice Art Biennale, TWR’s top picks

By Amanda

Last week I went to the Venice Art Biennale, I know, tough gig, traipsing around the beautiful Italian city, eating more pasta that is good for a girl and trying to figure out how a bottle of tequila can be… Read More

Home & GardenMay 15, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: Green Peas and Alphonso Mangoes

By Amanda

Our guest food blogger Jo Orr is tempting us with verdant spring peas and sunshine-tinged Alphonso mangoes this week, I for one LOVE Alphonso mangoes, whose season is brief, so get your skates on…. I brought back a heaving bagful… Read More

Out & AboutMay 14, 2015

Guest blogger Juliette: Mid-Life Musings, 15 years and counting

By Amanda

I know some readers are finding these posts from abroad rather unsettling, what with pictures of beautiful mountains, gorgeous French food and the pull of a brocante-bargain. It’s a wonder we have anyone left in the UK! Well this lovely… Read More

Home & GardenMay 8, 2015

Guest Food Blogger Jo Orr: elevating basics with, ahem, Champagne

By Amanda

We’re back with guest food blogger Jo Orr who this week is suggesting elevating basics for a bit of a treat by adding Champagne and, um, Viper’s Bugloss, it’s not often you hear that mentioned in a recipe…. This week… Read More

Health & HappinessMay 7, 2015

Adventures Before Dementia: Life in the Slow Lane

By Amanda

What happens to a committed clothes girl when she moves away from fashion’s fast lane? We’re back with Bebe in France to find out… It’s hard to believe that it’s exactly a year since I swapped the frantic world of… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 27, 2015

Pocket Brocket: our favourite city guides

By Amanda

The writer, knitter, quilter and baker Jane Brocket is someone we are hugely proud to call a friend at TWR. We adored Jane’s Yarnstorm blog aeons before we ever got to meet her and both of us are keen users… Read More

Out & AboutOctober 10, 2014

A weekend in Copenhagen

By Jane

It’s that time of year when summer seems like a distant memory and Christmas seems all too close. October is my favourite month for exploring new places and cities really are at their best when it’s sunny but cold. Last… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingFebruary 18, 2014

One Summer, America 1927 by Bill Bryson

By Amanda

If Bill Bryson had taught history at my school, or even written the history text books to be as entertaining as this is, I’d have become an historian. I absolutely love the easy accessibility of Bill’s writing, he spices up… Read More

Out & AboutAugust 15, 2009

We love: Lovelane caravans

By The Womens Room

When we first got a caravan, we were met with looks of horror when we mentioned it. You could almost see the images in peoples heads. Naff caravan parks, hideous interiors, jolly middle aged people in beige firing up the BBQ. Within… Read More