We Love The Magic Of Romance If you have been following us for a while, you’ll know that we believe in romance. We love the magic it brings to our daily lives. Not only does it keep us warm and fuzzy, especially now during winter in the UK where we are in a third lockdown; it also inspires us. We feel inspired to cherish the magic of love and to look for its reminders everywhere we can. Usually for Valentine’s Day we would organise a romantic getaway, either in London or somewhere abroad. That getaway would most definitely involve a […]

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The Fable Tree is a Christmas themed menu and experience put together by celebrity British chef Heston Blumenthal. Like his other experience menus, The Fable Tree focuses on a journey; the journey of a seed as it grows into a Christmas tree and all the associated days and activities around that.

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In what is very clearly a slow news year for what we love doing and writing about, it is good to see when venues adjust their offerings to cater for our current times. Recently announced, the Four Seasons chain is offering 20% off on advanced bookings that also include full flexibility should your plans need to change. Presumably this is if there’s new lockdown or travel restrictions implemented to or from your destination. They call this offer Time To Connect. The Offer Available at https://www.fourseasons.com/timetoconnect/, there are a few conditions to look out for. Firstly, you must book at least […]

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Last year we talked to Eileen Donaghey, the Afternoon Tea Expert about all things afternoon tea. In our post, we gained an expert insight into this charming and quintessentially British ritual. This year, ahead of Afternoon Tea Week 2020, we wanted to know if and how the afternoon tea experience will evolve, given the current global pandemic and if this is the beginning of a version 2.0 of afternoon tea. Given the ever-changing restrictions and limitations placed on restaurants, hotels and other areas of the hospitality sector, it remains unclear how venues could provide afternoon tea, if at all. To gain an […]

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There’s no time like the present to get your Christmas gifts ready with something unique and handmade such as elderflower wine. Pick elderflowers now while they’re in season and It’s been a rough start to the year for all of us, and we still don’t quite know how the second half will go. Now that we have much more time at home currently, this is the time to take advantage of that extra time and do the things that we’ve always wanted to do, but just haven’t had a chance to. It’s also still unclear what will happen with shops […]

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While in lockdown we are, quite rightly, spending all of days at home. Our activities and priorities have changed drastically since the pandemic started and many of us needed to adjust into doing everything at home for the very first time. Just like our priorities, our focus has changed when it comes to our looks. At home we can afford to be more comfortable than professional in our looks. This not only goes for our choice of clothes, but also for our make-up routines and hair styling. Ironically for me, this is the time when I started paying more attention […]

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Part of our Self-Isolation SeriesPart 1: Community | Part 2: You | Part 3: Your Home During this Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, remember you are not stuck at home, you are safe at home. While it’s easy to look at what is no longer available to you, on the bright side you have more time now to live in and appreciate your home. Whether you own or rent, are in a house or an apartment, you have made it your home through the objects and items that you have acquired over time that bring fond memories or simply make you happy. […]

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Part of our Self-Isolation SeriesPart 1: Community | Part 2: You | Part 3: Your Home In my last instalment, I was talking about some ideas on how to use the time while being confined within your home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Connecting with your community was one broad way to help relieve the feeling of confinement and make best use of the time to be helpful during this hour of need. In this instalment, I want to talk about a few ideas that focus around you. I want to talk about some development ideas that I found particularly […]

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In order to improve the quality and variety of pictures that I take, I’ve been talking about getting a drone for the longest time. I’ll be the first to admit that part of it was because I love new gadgets and toys and a drone ticks those boxes. However I genuinely wanted to get shots that no-one else would have, and to get in on this as early as possible before everyone’s mobile phone is also a drone. Having played with toy drones for a number of years and learning that they’re damn near impossible to fly, I was initially […]

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Part of our Self-Isolation SeriesPart 1: Community | Part 2: You | Part 3: Your Home With the current Covid-19 pandemic that is affecting each and every one of us and where self-isolation and “social distancing” are now commonplace, we still have options as to how we can treat this time. Do we see this as a confinement, a deprivation or even as a prison sentence? Perhaps we can do much better than that. Let’s try to see how we can do something useful with this time. As the saying goes, it is what it is and we have no […]

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