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In case you’re not completely snowed in and are looking for something fun to do, we’d suggest making a beeline for Sketch’s pop-up café at the Royal Academy of Arts, launching today. The café will run alongside the RA’s GSK contemporary exhibition ‘Aware: Art Fashion Identity’, so expect a concoction of fashion, food and art, presented in Sketch’s signature quirky style.
Philadelphia Phillies Ben Francisco reacts after being hit in the head with a pitch by Cincinnati Reds Logan Ondrusek during the sixth inning in Game 2 of the MLB National League Division Series baseball playoffs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 8, 2010. Photo: Tim Shaffer, Via: Reuters
A fisherman casts his line in Moscow River, covered in frosty fog, with the air temperature at about -13 degrees Celsius (8.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Moscow November 29, 2010. Photo: Denis Sinyakov, via: Reuters
For the launch of The Bakery, the new baking quarters at luxury country house Pennyhill Park Hotel, I was cordially invited to participate in a baking session with Head Pastry Chef Denis Drame and Head Baker Stèphane Gliniewicz. These two gentlemen are as close to baking royalty as you can get; Denis has worked at both Pierre Hermé and Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, and Stèphane most recently held the position as Senior Baker at The Connaught. If anyone could teach me how to a perfect a brioche or bake a baguette, I assumed it was them.
A lunch at the Michelin-starred Latymer might have been part of the appeal too…
Performers take part in the closing ceremony of the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, November 27, 2010. Photo: Jason Lee via: Reuters
We’ve been on the look-out for bloggers to review some of the fantastic classes that people have listed on Ooh. Laura from Are we nearly there yet mummy? wanted to spend some time with her husband, enjoying a cookery demonstration course at Swinton Park, so off they went to eat, drink and pick up a cookery tip or two:
It may have been drizzling as we pulled up to the beautiful Swinton Park Hotel but the atmosphere in the Swinton Park Cookery School, in a converted stable, was relaxed and cosy. Head of the cookery school, Robert Taylor and his sous chef Amanda made us feel like old friends that had just popped round to watch them cook.
A man walks past a house wrecked by artillery shells fired by North Korea on Yeonpyeong Island. South Korea warned North Korea of “enormous retaliation” if it took more aggressive steps after Pyongyang fired scores of artillery shells at a South Korean island in one of the heaviest attacks on its neighbor since the Korean War ended in 1953. CREDIT: REUTERS/Ongjin County/Handout
As I was walking down Portobello Road for my lunch at Pescheria Mattiucci I noticed a Kurt Geiger store waiting to open up its doors. Myla and All Saints further up the road were screaming of high street infiltration too, and suddenly I understood why campaigners fight to save Portobello’s independent boutiques and shops. Although we all love a bit of H&M, chain restaurants and high street stores are less than exciting and turn quaint neighbourhoods into mass market areas without individuality or charm. Is Portobello Market next up?
Buying Christmas presents can be quite stressful. Even thinking about it can cause most people to break down in a pile of sweat. Picture the shopping hysteria on Oxford Street; the lights from the department stores make you squint and the snap happy tourists stop right in front of you to take photos of Selfridges’s window display – it just ain’t pretty. So why not buy your Christmas presents online?
We turned to From Britain With Love for help. FBWL is an online guide to all things beautiful and British made, and is a perfect site if you want to support and learn more about British producers. Check out the latest events and trends, read course reviews, and browse the travel features. You’ll find designer-makers to craftspeople, food producers and retailers listed in the online directory, and we guarantee that you’ll feel inspired just after a quick glance.
The list below features products (and companies) found on From Britain With Love, and we think they would make for excellent Christmas presents indeed.
For the stylish sister grown tired of Accessorize
Looking for a kick-start to your fitness and bored at the gym? Or need to detox, de-stress and have some ‘me’ time?
Then Renew Fitness Retreat may have the answer: it’s a luxury fitness camp and detox retreat offering tailored weight loss and fitness courses for women who want a healthy holiday. Their outdoor activities, lifestyle therapies and holistic treatments will help you lose weight, kick start your fitness, detox, de-stress and improve your wellbeing in the surrounds of a contemporary countryside retreat in Herefordshire.
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