Staying In

Beauty: miracle make-up remover

We’re very happy to say that one of our very favourite bathroom products is now on sale in the UK. Undoubtedly one of the best make-up removers on the (international) market, Bioderma is a favourite among models and professional

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Beauty: 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 internet are a match made in heaven for ideally… Continue reading

Recipe: No-Knead Bread

Start it the night before you want to eat it

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 the Sullivan Street Bakery… Continue reading

Books: 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 plot twists). We’re thinking particularly of… 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

Internet: 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 find exactly what you’re… Continue reading

Book: 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 the cult geek TV programme QI for eight… Continue reading

Shopping: great handprinted T-shirts by Gnome Enterprises (especially good for guys)

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 GalleryContinue reading

Blogs: 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, it is the brainchild of their son,… Continue reading

Reading & Videos: 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 disarmingly frank about touring with Truman

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