Revelation time. We’ve always known the importance of a good bed and how, for reasons obvious, you should buy the best you can afford. We’ve always bought good pillows too, and a couple of years ago splashed out on a… Continue reading
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Guilty Pleasures
Book, Art & Food: Cressida Bell’s Cake Design: Fifty Fabulous Cakes, plus icing toppers
We’ve written about decorative artist Cressida Bell before, see here, as we love her work. We often buy her cards and recipe posters, always long for her rugs and furniture, and once saved up for two of her lamps. But honestly,… Continue reading
Beauty: Our favourite new scent
We’ve admired him from afar and recently were lucky enough to have a tête-à-tête with perfumer Frédéric Malle. If the name isn’t familiar, think of those smart, identical black bottles of fragrance lined up in Liberty (or Les Senteurs
Children: Take your kids to see T20 Cricket at the Oval for £1
25 & 27 June 2013, 6pm
In truth, we’re not brilliant on cricket ourselves. But we do live with and know cricket nuts, and the game seems to give them endless (and profound, we are told) pleasure each summer. And like football apparently, nothing beats seeing… Continue reading
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 eaten aubergine parmigiana, either… Continue reading
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 fabulous variations.… Continue reading
Cooking: Food 52, probably the best food website ever
The internet is brilliant for finding recipes and helping with all kinds of cooking. Videos and step-by-step photos make things ultra clear, and other cooks’ comments and questions often clear up baffling instructions. How great, then, to have all this… Continue reading
Books: great reads for a winter’s day or night
When it’s cold outside, there really is nothing more satisfying than curling up in the warmth with a great book. A page-turning, can’t tear-yourself-away-from-it book that whiles away the hours in no time. And guess what? We’ve put together a… Continue reading
Comedy: watch Eastbound & Down on DVD or iTunes
Eastbound & Down isn’t a new show – Series One first aired in the US on HBO in 2009 – but because it has never been screened on TV in the UK, it’s had a relatively underground following here. We’d… Continue reading
Music: listen to your favourite Musicals for free on digital radio
We’re big fans of musicals anytime of year but somehow an online musical radio station seems especially winsome during the Christmas season. How can you not feel festive while listening to Bing Crosby sing Cole Porter or something from West… Continue reading
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