Anknel and Burblets

dreams come out my ears and go round my head and i read them.

  • anna h interview – pinning with love

    Anna and I became friends a couple of years ago through blogging and we would, every now and again, email each other about life. Small but precious exchanges during those hectic advertising days when we were at Rona Road. I followed Anna on Pinterest, when I had time, as she clearly had a gift for…

  • N16 home of Belle Benson, creative business adviser

    Before we left London, on a very grey rainy Winter day, I took my camera around to Belle’s place because I love the interior and I knew you guys would love to see it. And by now you, my lovely readers, probably know I’m writing a book. There’s more to the book than the book…

  • East London interior design inspiration

    Ten years ago Vincent Cullane, a cabinetmaker and furniture designer observed, that when a new room is being created, an interior designer would complete the designs and a then whole load of different people and companies come in to do the various different jobs – the lighting, the plumbing, the tiling, appliances, furniture – everything!…

  • Baileys Home and Garden

    I’d heard about Baileys some time ago but didn’t realise we were close until Karine at Bodie and Fou mentioned it to me on Instagram last week. That was that. It was the official weekend outing and on Saturday morning we made our packed lunches for the car and off we headed. Westward ho. It…

  • A lovely hotel discovery (eight actually) for us and the kiddos

    We’re always on the lookout for amazing child-friendly hotels in the UK and Europe, so when Luxury Family Hotels asked if I’d have a look at their selection my immediate response was a very big YES please! There are eight hotels in the Luxury Family Hotels stable, all set in very grand and marvellous historic…

  • Umbrella love

    (1.) Kayyam by Osborne and Little  (2.) Dots and Ladybirds by Lisbeth Dahl  (3.) Bloomsbury walking umbrella by Fulton  (4.) Cotswold Walker by Radley  (5.) Orla Kieley Tulip  (6.) Cath Kidston Spot Red and Navy I’ve never managed to keep an umbrella longer than a year – they’d always get lost on the tube or the bus, or left behind at…

  • The Set Table – workshop at Anthropologie Kings Road

    Image: © Charlotte Bland for The Set Table To celebrate the launch of her gorgeous new book The Set Table: the Art of Small Gatherings, author and journalist Hannah Shuckburgh will be running a special customer workshop at Anthropologie in Kings Road – on Thursday April 25th from 4-6pm. Hannah, features editor at Easy Living magazine,…

  • Laura Ashley April blog crush (it’s A+B)

    A few weeks ago just as I was going to email Laura Ashley and ask if they wanted to be friends, they emailed me first and asked if I’d like to be their first blogger of the month. Well, yes! Absolutely! I’ve been a Laura Ashley girl since I was seven. I’d make cardboard houses…

  • The Easter Newsletter

    It’s warmed up significantly here since my last post. I can’t quite believe I managed to post it though! We’ve had another week of doing not much at all. I feel so unfit from having sat in the house, coughing, all week. A very cold Easter We didn’t dye our Easter eggs. We didn’t make…

  • 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…

  • The best thing I’ve ever done for my blog

    Pictured above: My Blogging your Way homework from this week: Mini brand UX and strategy scamp. Hey y’all. You might have noticed a bit of Spring cleaning going on around here of late. It’s been on the cards for some time, and after a four year break from proper blogging after Edith was born and…

  • How to make a raspberry nutmilkshake (or 3)

    Now I’ve got the whole almond milk thing down we’ve been having raspberry nutmilkshakes quite a bit. The kids love them. And so do I. Recipe on Lovely Food.