Top 10 things not to miss at Vintage at Goodwood this weekend

9th August 2010 > Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff

Vintage at Goodwood festival (13th-15th Aug) - A weekend of music, dressing up, fun and frolics dedicated to everything retro and vintage from the 1940’s – 1980’s.

Here’s our visitors guide to the best bits and what not to miss.

1. Vintage is a state of mind – and a strong look:

Visit the Beauty Boutique salon on the High Street (pre book an appointment) and be transformed into a glamourous glamourpuss from a bygone era. Or… boys, visit The Salon and get yourself a ducks ass – it’s a kooky old hair style and we love it! You too can look like this guy…

> read more

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> No Comments

 

Top five vintage outdoor games

3rd August 2010 > Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff

Retain your title in the cool stakes this summer with tres chic outdoor games.

Our friends at French Kiss Vintage give us the low down on their top 5 vintage games.

1. Pétanque – best for fashionistas

Back in May, one of our favourite fashion bloggers Garance Doré reported from the frontline of Karl Lagerfeld’s Chanel cruise showcase on a pavement cafe lined street of St Tropez. But aside from the spectacle of Georgia May Jagger rocking up on a motorbike with Sebastien Jondeau to close the show, the pictures that got everyone talking were the ones taken later in the evening, depicting Chanel muse Vanessa Paradis and Diane Kruger partaking in that quintessentially Gallic of pastimes: Pétanque


> read more

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> No Comments

 

Pimp my pothole…and other stories

22nd July 2010 > Craft & Creative, Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff

Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano, are a normal young Canadian couple from Montreal. But they share a dirty secret – they pimp potholes for kicks…

After locating the perfect pothole,  in just one 5 -10 minute take, without stopping traffic or shutting off the street and without any photoshop-type messing they create these amazing fantasy and illusion full photos:

> read more

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> No Comments

 

The world’s most civilised summer festival – Serenata, Dorset

25th June 2010 > Food, Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff

For the 5,000 people who will make it down to the Jurassic coast of Dorset for the Serenata festival this Summer, 26th-28th Aug, festivalling will be about a lot more than boozing, dodgy portaloos and dancing wildly up at the front.

> read more

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> 1 Comment

 

The 12 quirkiest British things to do this summer

4th June 2010 > Craft & Creative, Food, Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff, Travel

From the Last Night of the Proms in London to Bog Biking in Wales, check out our list of some of the quirkiest and some of the most whacky traditional things to do and see in the UK that comprise the back bone of a truly British summer.

Man vs Horse Competition

12th June, Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales

> read more

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> No Comments

 

The best secret gardens for eating and drinking, in and around London

2nd June 2010 > Food, Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff

When it’s hot and muggy in the city and you’re in need of a place to eat a little farther from the madding crowd; when you are looking to perch on more than a strip of be-awninged pavement where, for want of fresh air, you might as well suck on the exhausts of passing lorries, look no further than our list of the best calm oasis to sit, eat and relax in this summer.

The Rooftops

The Boundary 2-4 Boundary Street, Shoreditch, London, E2 7DD

Relaxed and chic

> read more

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> 1 Comment

 

Model for Norway

28th May 2010 > Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff, Sport, Travel

Ever fancied yourself as a postcard model… don’t be shy now. The Ooh.com team was pretty excited to find out about a cool new advertising campaign the Norwegian tourist board is running. They want US, or YOU to model for them…

So, are you aged between 25-65? Do you have a ‘vibrant’ personality and do you like lolloping about in the great outdoors?? Well then…

Norway needs YOU!

> read more

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> 1 Comment

 

Chelsea Flower Show 2010: all you need to know

26th May 2010 > Craft & Creative, Food, Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff, Travel

Why? Chelsea Flower Show or as it was then known the Great Spring Show was first held in Kensington, London in 1862 and is today the world’s most famous flower show.  A symbol of the start of the british summer, its sets the trends, features the newest and most desirable gardening products and showcases horticultural excellence of the worlds leading nurseries and growers.

> read more

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> No Comments

 

SproutRobot

11th May 2010 > Food, Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff

We here at Ooh love a bit of horticulture, but those of us with less than green fingers can get a helping hand from a cute little app called SproutRobot.  Provided you live in the US, you can enter your Zip code, and it makes you a personalised planting calendar depending on what you’ll grow.  At the right time it’ll dispatch you the seeds, so there can be no mistakes.  It’s a fun idea that is lovingly presented – though it isn’t international yet, so outside of the US, you’ll need to wait.  For more outdoors-y stuff, follow @oohoutdoors.

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> No Comments

 

Start your own mini allotment

15th April 2010 > Leisure, Ooh.com Stuff
Tired of tame tomatoes? Want to put the crunch back in your cucumber?

We might just have found the way to add some “Ra Ra Ra” to your rocket with one of the latest listings on Ooh.
Two highly accomplished gardeners Tessa Allen and Jill Corrigan, who’ve been running Gardening Workshops for the last eight years, are offering a vegetable growing workshop for the 21st century.

Designed with spatially challenged gardeners in mind, this fantastic course costs £60, will teach you how to successfully grow vegetables and salad on the smallest plots and includes advice on what to grow and what to avoid.

So if you’re keen to go salad crazy this summer click here to book your space. 

  • Share/Bookmark
Subscribe

> No Comments