Category: Home
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An early Autumn garden tour
Well. Here it is. Our garden. Parts of it. I think I’ve worn myself out this weekend. It’s been such glorious weather. Yesterday Kevin and A. went up to London leaving me and E. here with a whole day stretched out in front of us to happily play in the garden. In my case dig.…
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We’ve been picking a lot of flowers lately
Did I mention our amazing garden? Yes I did! The best thing about our new garden is we can take visitors out for a garden tour, quietly picking a posy of flowers as we walk. We finish the walk, go inside, tie the posy with twine and give our guests a lovely fragrant gift to…
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The bedroom. A good place for dancing.
Well hello. It’s been a while. Rather out of the blue (and after a very loooong Summer holidays) I found myself in the job I’d been wishing for before my sabbatical. And it’s not what you might think. Wait for it… interiors writer? No. Product designer? Sort of. Well, yes. I design digital products and services. And just…
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A Cotswolds cottage kitchen story
Welcome to our little kitchen, the last in the series of our little Cotswolds cottage. We are leaving here in less than two weeks – off for adventures new, and a place to call home for a long time. The kitchen is what really sold me on the house. The cooker to be precise. Even…
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Dusk (and Kevin calling Oscar). A little (unedited) film.
Cornwell evening from Anknel and Burblets on Vimeo. A lot of people seem to like my Instagrams of the daily view and Alex had been asking me for some time what it sounded like out here. So I finally read the instructions on how to use my 5d to shoot video. It took ages to…
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The little living room, a lovely new chair, and beautiful new cushions
Well, we are nearing the end of the little house series. The little house that has seen us tucked away in a happy little corner of The Cotswolds. Our little place, by our favourite place, Daylesford Farm. Only the kitchen and the garden left – and by that time our purpose here will have been…
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It’s warm in the kitchen
This is the centre of our home at the moment. The fireplace in the kitchen. It’s utterly freezing here. The snow still hasn’t melted and the girls and I have shivery freezing cold colds that give us temperatures and make us very very cold indeed. So we have the fire on day and night to…
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Little interior snippets
It’s taken weeks of unravelling, arranging, throwing away, sorting and fine-tuning and at last the little dining area is almost done. My job as a UX was pretty much the same – refining information or commands down into the perfect order, of the perfect amount of the right thing. Looking at my Pinterest boards now…
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Christmas at home
It was Christmas. The girls got their Sylvanians and they are happy. I got a big surprise present – the Herve Chapelier bag! Who’d have thought? Rufus guarded the dinner table and the bottle of Bolly. The Daylesford turkey was a huge success – we’ve been eating the most delicious turkey stock soup for days…
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A splendid slumber
Another reason I love going to Honeysuckle Cottage is the bedding. It’s all white and cream and amazingly high quality. The duvets are thick and cosy, the pile of pillows is perfect for reading and watching Country File in bed with a nice cup of tea. I always used to think my mother was mad…
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Berlin style secrets – for your interior
Advertorial Fashion for Home is a Berlin-based furniture design company working to the ethos that great design should be accessible to everyone – at a price that’s affordable. They really have a wide range to suit all tastes, from classical and rustic to minimal and modern. Their range encompasses living, dining, bedroom and office. Everyone…
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Country Living Fair
Last week I went to the Country Living Fair to look at lots of lovely interior and textiles things. I had three hours from yo to go and when I got there and looked out across all the stands I thought there was no way I could do it. There were indeed some very lovely…