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City vs Country – 10 Top UK Breaks
Is your idea of idyll waking up to endless rolling greenery interrupted only by the occasional ‘baa’ or ‘moo’? Or can you not wait to push open the curtains to reveal a bustling city centre, just waiting to be explored? We’ve put together some of our favourite city and country break ideas to inspire you, including historic, modern and unusual properties around the UK. Read on and see where you’d rather spend your quality time!
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Bread Baking Recipe with Seasoned Cookery School
The baking phenomenon is in full swing, partly thanks to that well-known baking show that has controversially moved to Channel 4 – The Great British Bake Off. We love GBBO here at Red Letter Days, so in homage to our favourite programme and our new favourite pastime, we spoke to Seasoned Cookery School, who have given us a delicious bread baking recipe for you to recreate at home!
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RLD Does Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work Day
As the children’s song goes ‘If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise’ and it’s no different today here at RLD HQ. We have brought our teddies in, big and small, to celebrate Bring your Teddy Bear to Work Day and they have taken over the office.
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It’s Chocolate Week!
Lets go loco about cocoa, after all it is Chocolate Week (10 – 16 October). We consulted chocolate connoisseurs Hotel Chocolat, to discover what flavours each different cocoa region produces and how best to make the most of each distinctive flavour. Warning: the below content is guaranteed to make you hungry!
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5 Controversial Films From Books
When author Paula Hawkins’ suspense thriller The Girl On The Train came out last year, it became a runaway bestseller and the film rights were immediately snatched up. Now, less than two years later, she’s thrilled with the film adaptation, out in UK cinemas today. But not all authors are pleased with the director’s take on their beloved novels. We’ve all experienced that moment where a character comes on screen and we want to jump up from the sofa and shout “That’s not how I imagined it!” – and we aren’t even the writers!
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Britain’s Favourite Cocktails – The Stories and Recipes Behind 5
When it comes to Britain’s bars, there’s more to our menus than G&Ts and heavy ales. There are so many opportunities to celebrate cocktails, be it London Cocktail Week, National Cocktail Day or even World Cocktail Day, and we love to get in the spirit of every occasion (geddit – spirit?). We thought that today we’d share with you the origins and recipes behind some of the UK’s most coveted and favourite cocktails.