• Six stylish advent calendar ideas

    Advent calendars are one of my favourite festive traditions, and even as an adult I love the excitement of counting down the days until Christmas. I’ve never made my own advent…

  • Halloween inspiration

    I have a confession to make: I love Halloween. I have done ever since I was a little girl, when my brothers and I would carve pumpkins, devour cookies made with their…

  • Recipe | Creamy wild mushrooms on toast

    I love this time of year: pavements sparkling with frost, chilly evenings made for snuggling under a blanket with a good book, greengrocers brimming with autumnal bounty… It’s a time…

  • How to care for linen

    I’ll be honest: I’m not a big fan of housework, and I never thought I’d be writing a blog post about laundry. But like many people I’ve fallen for the…

  • Recipe | Butter-baked corn & Kym’s ultimate potato salad

    The latest seasonal recipe from Kym Grimshaw of food blog On the Plate celebrates an ingredient that’s synonymous with this lovely late-summer, early-autumn cusp: sweet, juicy corn on the cob. Here, Kym…

  • A summer evening by the sea

    I blogged last week about my determination to savour the last few weeks of summer, and it’s something I’ve been putting into action this week. On Monday Chris and I…