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London Life: The May Bank Holiday from The Corinthia Gym to the Radio Bar

May 7, 2013 My Life in England

My weekend guest Oh I did have the most lovely low key, relaxing, calm weekend. After falling sick, followed by a charity cake-baking marathon, I planned on setting aside the long weekend for napping, snacking, snoozing, reading and general pootling. Unfortunately the side effect of baking umpteen cakes, Brownies and flapjacks for eight hours is […]

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Easter Bank Holiday Lunch: Pear, Blue Cheese & Chicory Salad, Roast Lamb, Orange Cake

April 1, 2013 LLG Food

Being stuck in England for Easter had its bonuses, one of which was being able to drive up the glamorous M1 to my mother’s cottage in Northamptonshire for Easter Bank Holiday lunch today. She was cooking for nine people, so one more wasn’t going to be an issue. I was thrilled as lots of my […]

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LLG Hotel Reviews: The Hotel du Vin, Birmingham

March 27, 2013 Hotels

I am generally well-disposed towards  Hotel du Vins. They’re usually in interesting buildings, located in Britain’s more interesting towns, with comfortable and considered rooms, and really good bistros with, as you may have worked out from the name, serious wine lists. When they first launched in the UK, they were pretty much the first proper […]

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LLG Restaurants: Balthazar, Covent Garden, London

March 16, 2013 LLG Food

Ah Balthazar. If there’s a restaurant that sums up my old fashion editor life in Manhattan, it would be this one, where I ate breakfast at least thrice weekly and knew that if I walked to a table at the back of the room, I would pass half the fashion publicists of New York pretending […]

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LLG in New York. Day Three — Friday. Rag & Bone, Hilfiger Mens & SNOW

February 11, 2013 LLG Fashion

Friday, oh Friday was MISERABLE. I mean if you like doing lots of standing about outdoors in raging blizzards, then it was fabulous, but me? I’m firmly in favour of deep sofas, warm toes and cups of tea. Indoors. And it wasn’t just me not loving being outside. Here’s my show sidekick iD’s Fashion Features […]

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LLG in New York. Wednesday & Thursday before the snow

February 11, 2013 LLG Travels

I landed at 1245hrs at JFK last Wednesday, and shared a yellow cab straight to the Upper East Side with my friend Emily, who lives on the other side of the Park. Checking in at The Surrey (now on my list of all time favourite hotels) was a delight and, when they offered me a […]

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LLG in London: From Couture Fashion to Mexican Food…

January 20, 2013 My Life in England

Well, the latter half of last week seemed to cover all bases from an ethereal fashion show, to the ingestion of large quantities of Mexican food. The former was the Spring Summer 2013 couture show of London-based couturier Nicholas Oakwell, whose production team spent 48 hours transforming the Claridges ballroom into a Japanese-inspired wonderland, with cream […]

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LLG Travels: Cornish Pasties & Saffron Buns at The St Mawes Bakery.

January 16, 2013 Cornwall

On the penultimate day of our New Year’s holiday at Dreamcatchers we were all cooked out. Hannah and I had been such a frenzy of FOOD FOOD FOOD COOK COOK COOK from the moment we arrived. (I even managed to knock up a cake within an hour of waking on our first day.) So we […]

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LLG in London: A week of, well eating really…

January 13, 2013 My Life in England

Well, that was a frantic week. But one which contains cake and afternoon tea could never be a bad one. My friend Anne came round to my flat for lunch on Friday, the day afterwards, and as an antidote to all that sugar, I made us a variation on my Tom Yum soup, which we […]

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LLG Cooks: Winter Warming Recipes Digest

January 13, 2013 LLG Food

(Field Mushrooms, Mozzarella, Cannellini Beans & Flat Leaf Parsley) I think it’s time for my annual warming recipe digest, as I all I want to do right now is shovel bowls of hearty beans, lovely internal central heating soups, fruit-filled cakes, everything-on-toast, and plates of cheesy pasta. So here are some of the recipes I’ve […]

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