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The spirit of the Blitz – more than a date, a country or a war
The 'Blitz' described the bombing of mainland Britain that took place between early September 1940 and May 1941. Bombs fell on many countries during the Second World War but the lasting legacy was not the damage and destruction, but the ...
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Our guide to festival frugality
Festivals have become a fundamental aspect of the British summer. With a few Make It and Mend It tips your festival experience needn’t be a case of waterlogged tents and overpriced hamburgers. The August and September festivals are just ...
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Homemade Home competition entries
Here are some of the fantastic entries we've had for our Homemade Home competition. You're clearly a creative and ingenious lot! The three winners will be receiving copies of Sania Pell's beautiful book, The Homemade Home. For anyone ...
Interiors
The fabulous Homemade Home
The Homemade Home is the absolute to-die-for book for Make and Menders. Sania Pell has served up a delicious cocktail of tempting ideas and projects that are easy to do as well as beautiful and incredibly creative. Sania is a stylist ...
People
Living the good life in Uruguay
"You're moving WHERE?" “To Uruguay”, we said. “A little country nestled between the giants of Argentina and Brazil, in South America” my husband and I told our family and friends in the USA in the summer of 2007. A year ...
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The 5 things Mums do NOT need for a great Mothers Day
In the UK and some other parts of the globe we celebrated Mother's Day a month or so ago. Now it's the turn of mums in America, Australia, Germany, Barbados... just a few of the countries who celebrate this holiday in May. So we're ...
People
Holding a Swap party
We've written before about clothes swapping parties or 'Swishing', but it doesn't have to be just clothes. If you really want to put the brakes on your own personal conspicuous consumption, but still need some things - maybe your family ...
Food
Getting the best out of your Aga
I have a two-oven, 1970’s LPG-fired Aga, in that lovely old-fashioned cream colour. I inherited it from the people we bought our house from seven years ago. It was a lucky strike as I'd previously had an Aga bought from new in my last ...
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