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Ticket to Tetbury
Westonbirt Arboretum
Day two of travels took me to Westonbirt Arboretum in Tetbury.
Autumn at RHS Wisley
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.
Late Summer Beauty
As our Summer begins to morph into mists, your beauty regime might like a change too. Here are my favourite products for right now.
Homemade Cornish Pasties
Nothing makes me think of Summer more than a homemade Cornish Pasty… especially now that our nice hot weather is playing hard to get. The thrill lies in cooking and eating the fuel for the chase!
Baked Apricots
Such a quick and easy recipe for summer. Baked apricots require zero effort for maximum results. Soft, delicious and nutritious apricots in a golden glaze, it makes the best fruity pudding base. Serve on their own for an apricot debut solo, or with ice cream, or sorbet, or cream, or a sponge…
Travel Beauty
For me, beauty is at its best when it’s simple and straightforward… particularly when travelling. An indolent makeup bag, if you will. These are the products that I took away with me when I went to Cambridge. Compact, light, mini products with no big bulky breakable bottles and no brushes – and bearing in mind I had a formal family wedding to attend – I covered all makeup bases. Here goes!
Wimbledon Tennis 2015
In the late nineteenth century, women played tennis in corsets and their clothes weighed about 10 ½ lb – the equivalent of nearly five bags of sugar.