Established way back in 1707, this store has seen so much history and change over it's time, but from almost the beginning it was a place that served royalty. Today, you can find plenty of things with the Royal patent, and several tea blends like the Queens Blend (her favourite), Wedding Breakfast (created for the …
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A lovely book from the author of River King and Practical Magic, this book is a coming of age story about two girls as they navigate life, love tragedy, and becoming adults. Narrated by the sharp witted Gretel, the book tells of the break up of her parents marriage, her mother and cousins search for …
If I see a Peter Ackroyd book, I'll generally pick it up. This historian (I've recently heard that he's a novelist too) has a nice, anecdotal but informative writing style, and researches his books thoroughly. They are often very long, so when this one arrived, I was surprised that it's about the length of a …
I was really excited this month to get a free haul of MUA Make Up with a magazine subscription. I've seen this brand online, and heard great things about it, but never got around to trying it. I was so excited when it arrived because there was a whole kit of new things to play …
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If you're anything like me you love buying and trying new products. I'm always buying new things. In this post, I thought I might share with you a few of the products on my radar that I sampled this month, and what I thought of them. Caudalie Divine Legs Tinted Body Lotion Being someone who you might …
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This beautiful, sorrowful book tells the story of a man raised by wolves, and the woman that rescues him when he's taken into the mental health system. Robin is still reeling from her split from her philandering cop husband and starting over with her teenage son in their home town, when she happens one day …
Ok, so to be fair, they're pretty awesome, high end samples, but still. This is something I sometimes do if I'm travelling because I like to pack lightly. Travel sizes are great too, but if you pop some samples in your bag they're even tinier and you're likely to use the whole thing in the course …
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Every now and then people will wrinkle an eye brow at me and ask about my accent. They usually guess Canadian, but I'm Australian. It's almost always followed up with questions about why I'm crazy enough to have moved from paradise to London... A week or two ago I wrote a bit about how I …
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I picked this book up almost accidentally. I love stories about women in the Southern states of America, they tend to be warm, funny stories that you can laugh and cry over and the women in them are good friends to each other. I think they call it GritLit, because the women have got grit, …
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Every wardrobe should have a crisp shirt in it. They go with everything, they always look stylish. But to my mind, they're worth spending a little money on to get a good fit and proper lines. An ill fitting shirt can be so unflattering. So when a classic British brand sent me a shirt from their …
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