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May 24, 2024
The Grand Giveaway! Design Your Own F & M Hamper
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May 23, 2024
This & That: May 24, 2024 – British Week!
From luxury British skincare brands having site-wide sales, d��cor items from trusted interior designers for teacups and trays, and new book releases from British writers for those who love a good romance, to inspiration for classic English d��cor, this week’s T & T is full of finds. And while most of them are British as […]
The 3rd Giveaway: Rita Konig’s Create Academy Design Course
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May 22, 2024
Staying at North Farm, Rita Konig & Philip Eade’s Country Home in County Durham
Often we don’t know where our curiosity will lead us, but where it tends to take us if we are brave enough to trust it is somewhere that makes our heart swell and our passions sing. Such was the case when I had the opportunity to stay in North Farm. I could not have known […]
Breakfast at the Savoy’s Thames Foyer Restaurant & Visiting the White Hall Gardens
To dine at The Savoy in the Thames Foyer is a fortunate opportunity, afforded only to their guests currently staying at the hotel, and so, as I had fondly remembered my breakfast during my first stay at The Savoy back in 2022 with my mother, I knew during my stay upon arriving at London this […]
May 21, 2024
382: Antique & Vintage Shopping in Barnard Castle, England + 5 Ways I Decorate with these Treasures
You know you’ve found a quaint English town when the name of the town has a beloved nickname personifying it. Barnard Castle, or Barney, as the locals often call it, is a small town in County Durham, so in the northeastern portion of England, and the population rests just under 6,000. With my vacation rental […]
Maryland, limited series: petit plaisir #382
A thoughtfully written and brilliantly acted limited series, Maryland, stars Suranne Jones as the younger sister to Eve Best, the eldest sister who star as the leads, two siblings Becca and Rosaline, who with the first episode (of three) learn their mother has unexpected died on the Isle of Man. Filmed entirely in Ireland, the […]
Taking the Heathrow Express: Simple, Comfortable (and Affordable) Transport from/to Heathrow
If you have flown into Heathrow airport or flown out of Heathrow, I have a feeling you likely know about the Heathrow Express, but just in case you don’t, as I had completely forgotten about this gem of transport to and from the city after taking it during my very first trip to London back […]
May 20, 2024
Staying at The Goring Hotel
As the only family-run luxury hotel in the city of London, The Goring stands in a league of its own. With prime real estate tucked behind Buckingham Palace Gardens and the Palace itself, settled on a quiet (yes, quiet) tree-lined side-street, guests hardly know they are in the city except that just around the corner […]
The 2nd Giveaway: Sarah Nelson’s Grasmere Gingerbread
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