Beauty: perfect lip stains for a great just-bitten lip look
These nifty little pens are the answer for those of us who canʼt keep lipstick on and abhor sticky lip gloss. Super easy to apply in terms of keeping within the limits of your lips, and not as scratchy...
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Recipe: pretty brilliant carrot cake
We’ve got a bit of a thing about carrot cake, and how it hits the spot without making you feel too quesy. Over the years we’ve tried many different recipes and narrowed the winning formula down to two...
View ArticleMagazines: Cereal, a great new publication about food and travel
Despite the groaning magazine shelves in newsagents, we often get to the end of reading monthly or weekly publications and feel, well, rather short changed. Where is the beautiful, ground breaking...
View ArticleTV: watch The Sound and the Fury – A Century of Modern Music
Last night, we watched the first episode of this three-part documentary series charting the history of classical music over the last hundred years, and were riveted from the get-go. This first...
View ArticleShopping: great handprinted T-shirts by Gnome Enterprises (especially good...
We’re always on the look out for great T-shirts, both in fit and design. Really good ones for men, unless completely plain, seem to be particularly elusive. Thornback and Peel do good ones and Rogues...
View ArticleBlogs: one of our favourite how-to-make-easy-bread sites
Whilst we don’t want to cook every recipe on this blog (green bread, anyone?) we do love it’s simplicity, inventiveness and enthusiasm. Written by Pat Gordon-Smith, wife of the food critic Jay Rayner,...
View ArticlePrize draw: The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
Deb Perelman isn’t a professional chef or cookery writer, and yet her book, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, has been on The New York Times best seller list since it launched in the USA last October....
View ArticleVideo: An interview with Lee Radziwill by Sofia Coppola and Nicky Haslam
We were fascinated by an interview of Lee Radziwill (Jackie O’s sister) by Nicky Haslam in the NYTimes’ T Magazine last weekend, together with an accompanying video interview by Sofia Coppola. She’s...
View ArticleBeauty: miracle make-up remover
Why are some of the best beauty products ever made still not stocked in UK pharmacies? Never mind, you can buy this brilliant one through various websites. Undoubtedly one of the best make-up removers...
View ArticleBook: The Secret Museum
This gorgeous golden-jacketed book is totally brilliant. We sat in bed dipping in and out and reading its extraordinary stories with much delight. It’s author, Molly Oldfield, has been a researcher on...
View ArticleInternet: best sites for renting gorgeous holiday houses
We’ve recently been looking to rent a house in Europe for a holiday this summer and what a frustrating, time-consuming process it’s turning out to be. With so much on offer online, it’s often hard to...
View ArticlePrize draw: win a copy of Rose Bakery’s new cookbook, How to Boil an Egg
We’ve previously waxed lyrical about the Rose Bakery book, Breakfast, Lunch, Tea and their perfect quiche recipe (see our post here) so we were super excited to hear about the launch of the latest...
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Recipe: perfect aubergine parmigiana
We saw this recipe, part of Felicity Cloake’s ‘How to Cook the Perfect…’ series in The Guardian about a month ago, and immediately tore it out because though we’d never made it before, every time we’d...
View ArticlePrize draw: win a Lanolips goodie bag
Come winter (and golly, it really is winter, isn’t it?) there’s only one product we reach for to stop our lips completely drying out and that’s Lanolips. We’ve tried every lipsalve out there, from...
View ArticleTechnology: our favourite (ultra useful) new apps
We’re definitely having an app moment – here are our latest and greatest: Vine – bought by Twitter at the beginning of the year, this 6 second video app is already zooming up the app charts. The genius...
View ArticleBooks: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – the one everyone’s talking about
There’ve been a few books published in the last year that became so widely discussed, amongst the media and friends alike, that they became must-reads (if only so you could talk about the frustrating...
View ArticleRecipe: No-Knead Bread
This is the easiest, quickest, most fail-safe bread recipe in the world. That’s not the reason to make it however. The reason to make it is, it’s totally delicious. The recipe comes from Jim Lahey of...
View ArticleBeauty: three great, really-useful makeup sites
Did you know that beauty editorials in magazines are usually heavily influenced by beauty advertisers (no difference from fashion but still, it’s somehow easy to forget)? That’s why beauty and the...
View ArticleBooks: Wave, A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami by Sonali Deraniyagala
You’ll have to steel yourself to read Wave, but steel yourself you should, because this is one of those books – like The Year of Magical Thinking or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – that tells you...
View ArticlePrize draw: win a signed copy of Kitchen Memories by Lucy Boyd
This is a wonderful book. It’s a cookbook, yes, but in fact we read it cover to cover, as it’s also something of a memoir – as you’d expect given the title, full of stories and anecdotes. Lucy Boyd is...
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