“Slow Food is an international grassroots non-profit organisation bestowing the virtues of the good, clean, and fair life.” – Petersham Nurseries.
The leafy borough of Richmond is often lauded over for its natural beauty – Richmond Park & Green, the River Thames with its cormorants and herons, the Deer Park and Kew Gardens.…
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Oscar Lloveras is best known for his landscape art, outdoor sculptures constructed from natural materials such as wood, leaves, paper and stones. He has studios in Japan and France but has been commissioned to make installation art all over the world. I caught up with the artist while he was on a...
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After a few balmy, sunshine filled days at the beginning of the month, March has quickly turned cold again, with much of the country wrapped in a blanket of snow. At the moment it feels like we are locked in a battle between Spring and Winter and the tender new...
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Last 14th February, people from around the world celebrated Valentine’s Day. This celebration began as a church-sanctioned holiday involving St. Valentine. Through the following centuries, it has evolved into an annual occasion where lovers express their affection for each other by giving gifts such as greeting cards, flowers and chocolates.…
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“The list we have ended up with is, we believe, truly representative of that diversity of style, content and provenance, and contains those works which genuinely inspired the most excitement and passion amongst the judges. I don’t anticipate the job becoming easier at the next stage!” Miranda Richardson, Chair of...
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Patience Gray was a cook and author whose name, unlike Elizabeth David’s, is not often remembered outside of specific culinary circles; but decades before the ‘locovore’ movement became a movement, she was already...
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It’s no secret that the arts and crafts movement is enjoying something of a resurgence in the UK – with knitting circles, screen printing courses, painting classes, cookery schools and make do and mend workshops springing up in practically every village, town and city across the country. Within this resurgence there is also reinvention...
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The Community Farm in Chew Magna, near Bristol, has just launched its ‘Supermarket Free Challenge’ which is encouraging people to sign up for a year of independent food shopping. Through taking on the challenge, participants will explore the central questions - Is it possible? What benefits does it have? Does it...
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Last month I dropped by the Centrespace studios – a cooperative space for artists and designers, with a gallery, in Bristol – to pay a visit to artist Eleanor Glover who is currently working on a rather special project involving a suitcase, Read more →
Greta Gerwig is well-known among those who follow indie cinema as the poster-child of the ‘Mumblecore’ movement (see below). She typically plays understated, outsider characters who lack confidence but possess a flawed charm which Gerwig excels at manipulating to bring out subtle and deeper truths that other actors in similar roles have failed to...
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If you’re in the mood for a post-Christmas escape then this beautiful documentary on the life of Tove Jansson, the secretive author behind the Moomin stories, might do the trick. From the temperamental relationship between her artist parents to the remote and tempestuous island she was later drawn to inhabiting with her...
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I’m a big fan of Christmas and all the traditions associated with the festive season – whether they be those embraced by the wider population or just by my quirky little family!
As a child, I remember the kitchen transforming into a hive of activity as soon as December began, with...
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