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The RHS Chelsea Flower Show is in Bloom
The annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show is a long standing British institution, as popular with the royals as it is with gardeners and those who simply appreciate natural beauty. And this event will be no exception.
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Four Great Films Set During Autumn
The temperature is dropping, the sun is slowly going into hiding and the evenings are getting shorter, autumn has arrived. But it’s not all bad. There are many ways we can celebrate autumn and embrace this most colourful of seasons – and one good method of getting into the seasonal spirit is by watching a film. With this in mind, here are four great films that were filmed during the autumn…
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Health and Well-Being Tips
It’s National Spa Week this week (2nd – 6th November 2016), so we got together with Espirit Spa and Wellness at Holiday Inn Reading to compile a list of lifestyle and exercise health and well-being tips to improve your health.
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Six Degrees of Separation: The Gift Experience Edition
First proposed in 1929 by Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy, six degrees of separation is the notion that anyone in the world can be connected through a chain of no more than six acquaintances. Since the introduction of this theory, many people have put it to the test, including Microsoft. After checking an astounding 30 billion electronic messages they confirmed that six degrees actually works – well almost. By studying these messages, they discovered that any two strangers are distanced on average by 6.6 degrees, which basically means you are connected to Mick Jagger or The Queen by a string of seven or fewer introductions! There is even a game called The Six…
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A Tasty Trip to Ma’ Plucker on London’s Beak Street
A couple of weeks ago, my team mate Brooke and I went to sample the menu at a little place in Soho by the name of Ma’ Plucker – a soul food and chicken joint conveniently located down Beak Street. Read on to find out more about boozy iced tea, ‘three way chicken’ and the Ma’ Plucking Sunday afternoon quiz…
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Seven Satisfying Facts About English Wine
In 2016, Taittinger announced that they had bought 60 hectares of land in rural Kent in order to produce huge batches of the bubbly stuff, making them the first ever champagne house to invest in English sparkling wine. It looks like English wine is on the up and to celebrate such a refreshing fact, here are seven satisfying things you might not already know about wine grown and produced on local soil. So, did you know? 1. There are now around 400 commercial vineyards in England, producing over two million bottles of wine a year. 2 Ever the patriot, the Queen is a huge fan of English wine and often plies her international…
