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Interior Design Masters ~ BBC2 ~ Episode Five

Interior Design Masters ~ BBC2 ~ Episode Five

Episode 5 ~ Holiday Lodges The five aspiring interior designers competing for the ‘life changing contract’ of doing up a bar in a posh London hotel...

Interior Design Masters ~ BBC 2 ~ Episode Four

Interior Design Masters ~ BBC 2 ~ Episode Four

Episode Four ~ Student Studios The potential Masters were back at college this week, having been dispatched to the University of Leicester and task...

Interior Design Masters ~ BBC 2 ~ Episode Three

Interior Design Masters ~ BBC 2 ~ Episode Three

Episode 3: Shops In which the remaining eight contestants were divided into four pairs, with each team given an independent shop in Nottingham to r...

Interior Design Masters ~ BBC2 ~ Episode Two

The Chocolate Hotel In which Frank gets his Snickers in a Twist, Terian stages a mutiny on the Bounty, and Cassie’s Victorian boudoir causes a Ripp...

Interior Design Masters ~ BBC 2 ~ Episode One

Interior Design Masters ~ BBC 2 ~ Episode One

Episode 1: Show Homes by Show Ponies? I love interior design programmes.  I was brought up on Changing Rooms and have been a sucker for anything in...

The Vicarage Hotel, Holmes Chapel - We Are Converts!

The Vicarage Hotel, Holmes Chapel - We Are Converts!

Please note: we were unable to resist inserting a few vicar-related words or phrases into our post.....how many can you spot? I’m not sure how many...

"I Know What Goes With Stuff": Interior Design Tips from Liam Gallagher

"I Know What Goes With Stuff": Interior Design Tips from Liam Gallagher

The first in an occasional series of celebrity interior design advice Part 1: Liam Gallagher It’s bizarre what you can find when poking about in t...

Beach Hut Chic: Nautical but Nice

Beach Hut Chic: Nautical but Nice

A gorgeous sunny winter’s day and a stroll along the beach at Hengistbury Head near Bournemouth.  If you’ve never been here it’s definitely worth ...

Llamas, Botanicals, Bamboo & Flatulence Pants: a day at Spring Fair 2018

Llamas, Botanicals, Bamboo & Flatulence Pants: a day at Spring Fair 2018

To the NEC’s Spring Fair, and a day spent wearing out a considerable amount of shoe leather walking through the 19 – yes 19! – halls of trade stand...

Buns in the Oven: My Attempt to Make Fika-friendly Cinnamon Buns

Buns in the Oven: My Attempt to Make Fika-friendly Cinnamon Buns

I am not a natural baker.  On the rare occasions when I make a cake or a batch of biscuits, I am not showered with compliments (the words ‘you shou...

Fika: is eating cake Sweden's secret to happiness?

Fika: is eating cake Sweden's secret to happiness?

A cup of coffee with a pastry or slice of cake.  A treat once in a blue moon?  A once a month chance to catch up with friends?  Something that only...

Five Go Mad in the Quantocks

Five Go Mad in the Quantocks

    To Somerset, and a walking weekend in the Quantock Hills.  An annual get together for five of us who attempted the Three Peaks Challenge a few...