Every so often a shop opening attracts my attention, like the sound of a champagne cork popping in the next room, or a bright pullulating firework in the distance.
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Clarins Eau Dynamisante
There is nothing tentative about this perfume. It’s like hosting a party at your pulse points. Plucky notes include ginseng (so uplifting, very important for November), a fresh zing from aloe vera and an almost woody horsetail trail that synergize into a striking and energetic scent.
Rituals, Ritual
I like to alight from a hectic week by setting a scented candle alight.
Beef Up Your Soup!
Leftover food should not be an afterthought (especially when we’re talking about a particularly generous Sunday roast beef joint that I had for luncheon the other day.) Save what you can’t manage and allow to cool before refrigerating and livening up in a thick soup the next day. Dabble with a ladle, sluice your soup bowl and let flavourful frugality prevail!
Chocolate Spiral Biscuits
Some are busy spiralizing courgettes to make courgetti dishes (a portmanteau most succulent). Others use their spiralizers for carrots to bring style to quinoa.
So it’s with a cheeky felicity that I proffer these Chocolate Spiral Biscuits for your pudding bowls. (See? Spiral. Phonetically twinned!). Although that’s where the similarity ends.
Westonbirt Arboretum
Day two of travels took me to Westonbirt Arboretum in Tetbury.
London Fashion Week – The Designer Showrooms
If catwalk shows at London Fashion Week are displays of theatrical brilliance (big, dynamic, buzzing), then a look round the Designer Showrooms at Brewer Street offers a chance to observe fashion from the perspective of visitor in a museum exhibition: a calmer, more serene space for (deep) sartorial contemplation.
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London Fashion Week – SS16 – Day One
I often think of fashion as a little bit like an excitable, blithe butterfly flitting across a meadow: so very thrilling to track and plot its unexpected turns in a distractingly beautiful milieu. And an opportunity to be one of the first to see Spring / Summer 2016 lead butterflies was not to be missed!
^ This is the world’s most fashionable car park (the new ‘concept’ meadow). From today until Tuesday, the NCP car park in Brewer Street in Soho will host London Fashion Week.
Sweet Potato and Carrot Soup
The kitchen tables of Autumn are best bedecked with soup.
Top 10 Beauty Products for Under £10
Filling your makeup bag or bathroom cabinet needn’t cost a fortune so close your purse’s mouth. Here are my favourite beauty buys for under a tenner.