Oxford Christmas Market
Oh, you have got to love a Christmas Market, haven’t you? There’s something about wandering around in the dark (you can’t go in the daytime, it’s just not the same), sipping a mulled wine or hot chocolate, seeing the lights, listening to the carols playing, stocking up on small unusual gift ideas and food treats… it’s just all so darn Christmassy. So we were pretty sure we’d have a fabulous...
Accurist Gents Watch 50% off – Christmas Gift Guide
Men are often some of the trickiest family members to buy for, aren’t they? I find it’s either dead easy.. or nigh on impossible to really find the perfect thing. BUT over the years I have come to realise that somet hings can make it easier. Watches are one of those things. Don’t presume that because he has a nice watch, he might not like another. It’s like you deciding that you have a fabulous pair of shoes...
The most beautiful wood salt & pepper shakers | Christmas Gift Guide
*sighs happily* Aren’t they just bee-yoo-tiful? two of my favourite textures – natural wood and smooth pebbles – combined into useful, pretty objects. They just make me smile – and want to touch one. The smooth round shape of the Salt and Pepper Shakers makes them not only very beautiful, but also very comfortable to hold. They can be arranged in any way possible turned upside down and they will always look...
New Playmobil Fairies Range – Christmas Gift Guide
My 7yr old daughter is a small paradox – she loves to wear a frou-frou skirt, have her her long and free, and desperately wants to paint her nails (yeah, like I let THAT happen…). BUt while she’s wearing her fluffy tutu, she likes to be armed with a sniper rifle, or climbing a tree, or chasing her big brothers across a windy hilltop. It’s one of the things I like most about her, actually – she’s...
Outdoor Ice Skating in London – it’s so flipping PRETTY #GreatDaysOut
Following on from our red bus tour we scooted across London to get to the Natural History Museum for a spot of outdoor ice skating. SO Excited! I LOVE to ice skate (though haven’t been more than a couple of times in the last 20 years), so I was as excited as the children – who have all tried it once, and are universally as terrible as their father at staying upright on the ice… We were booked in for the 3p.m....
Typhoon Vintage Scales – £20! | Christmas Gift Guide
Oh, I LOVE these. And yes, I know you’re not supposed to enjoy kitchen stuff as a gift – but seriously. LOOK at these babies. That’s not kitchen ‘stuff’. That’s Kitchen Art. No kitchen tool has a right to be quite this pretty, does it? Typhoon have taken inspiration from the characterful kitchen designs of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to create these kitchen scales. The enamel coated steel comes in a...