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I'm Hero, editor of Muddy Bucks & Oxon, here to bring you the quirky, cool and downright unmissable in the area.
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Making plans? Find your perfect Pub, Inn, Hotel, Café, Restaurant or Bar across the Muddy counties.
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Booking your family hols?Don't do anything til you've seen Flight Centre's first Family Adventures brochure - and put yourself in the running for a £20k dream trip!
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We have Mail!Well this is a sentence I thought I'd never write. The 50 most inspirational women in the UK - including Keeley Hawes, Dina Asher-Smith, Jacqueline Wilson, Thomasina Miers and *splutter* ME!
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24 fab Christmas marketsFeeling the need to shop? Here, let us facilitate that with the best local festive fairs.
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Ready to hit the slopes?How to look powder perfect on la piste.
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Gift Guide for tweensThose pesky tweens and teens are a nightmare to buy for, but relax, we have it, like, totally covered with added hashtags and emojis.
What's On
Little Black Book
The latest handpicked businesses we think you’ll love
Coffin Mew
The Lygon Arms, Worcestershire
Oxford Junior Rowing Course
The Greyhound, Rotherfield Peppard
The Oxo Bar, Oxford
byEloise
Shampooch
The Tythe Barn
Sweetness & Light Candles
Bucks County Museum
Giggling Squid, Marlow
The Mole Inn, Toot Baldon
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The Oxford Arms, Kirtlington
Take one 19th century pub, add a huge garden, great food and a policy of allowing only children 12 and older in the dining area, and whaddya get? A brand new gastropub to add to your must-try list!
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Sweet dreams
One scoop or two? OK, three it is! Dessert cafés are all the rage and your little people will love Creams in Xscape MK for its bubble waffles and Oreo-everything. Buckle in for the sugar rush.
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The Miller of Mansfield, Goring
Friendly pub meets fine dining at this Goring restaurant-with-rooms, a village retreat with serious aspirations.
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Christmas drinkies!
Usually face-down in a vat of Baileys throughout December? You can do better than that! Here's our guide to nailing your Christmas drink choices like a pro. Bottoms up!
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The most fun restaurant in Oxford?
A party atmosphere, sexy Sri Lankan street food and killer cocktails - The Coconut Tree in Oxford has got it all going on.
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Booking your family hols?
Don’t do anything til you’ve seen Flight Centre’s first Family Adventures brochure – and put yourself in the running for a £20k dream trip!
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Brighton’s Rock ‘n’ Roll hotel
We like nothing more than a quirky and cool weekend bolthole, and there's plenty of both to...
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A fairy tale stay
Muddy goes all 'Rapunzel' and checks into an impressive 15th Century folly for the night with panoramic views over a famous Civil War battlefield.
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2hr Westgate Xmas blitz!
Yes, doubters, it can be done! Memorise Muddy’s gift buying masterplan, grab your credit card and go go go.
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Travel
Winter boltholes
Pack that overnighter and give yourself the break you deserve, with 37 curated cosy breaks across the Muddy counties.
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EAT OUT
Local stars
It’s the accolade that all chefs want – so whose wish on a Michelin star in Bucks and Oxon came true this year?
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Hotels & Inns
Girls’ weekend getaways
Try these 30 awesome spas, inns, bars and retreats across the Muddy counties and reconnect with your bezzies in style.
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Our festive fashion Top 10
Invitations piling up and nothing to wear? Well, Cinders, you shall go to the ball (or, er, pub). Muddy’s partywear edit incoming!
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Hangover hiders
There's nothing Muddy doesn't know about surviving a hangover. So in the interests of not being mistaken for a dug-up corpse this festive season, behold our five favourite morning after skincare saviours.
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The Popham treatment
Oxford hairdresser David Popham worked with Vidal Sassoon in Sixties London - so he has five decades of cutting experience. Yeah, I think I'll let him loose on my hair!
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Practically perfect Peter Pan
John Michie of Holby and Corrie fame hooks in the laughs as the one-handed pirate in Aylesbury’s feel-good festive show. Read on for my full review.
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Panto review: ‘Snow White’ at The Wycombe Swan
Is this panto, starring the gyrating Brendan Cole, the fairest in the land? Well, you'll just have to read on to find out, won't you my pretty?
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Review: Alice & Bob…, Pegasus Theatre
A madcap, heartwarming Christmas show for kids at the brilliant Pegasus Theatre in Oxford. Let the wrapping paper battle commence!
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The best advent calendars
Counting the days until Christmas? Here, we can help with that! Open the door to the best 20 advent calendars and no nicking the chocolates before your kids wake up.
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21 cracking Christmas wreath workshops
Deck your door with boughs of holly! These local festive craft classes are hugely popular (wonder if the accompanying mulled wine has anything to do with that?) so, quick, book now.
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Ask a lawyer!
There aren't enough hours in the day, right? So we asked a top legal firm to answer your queries about all the stuff you never get round to sorting out.
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Self-care quiz time!
Here at Muddy we love wellbeing and we love a quiz, so a wellbeing quiz? We've all done it - but how will you get on? Tot up your scores and let us know.
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Back to school?
Feeling the need to feed your brain? There’s loads of ace new academic courses now booking in Oxford for 2019 – and you can be as part-time as you like.
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Top 10 books for young adults
Abingdon's magnificent indie bookshop Mostly Books has scoured the shelves, and selected its Top 10 books for the miracle of a tween/teen no-screen Christmas.
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XMAS: Top 10 kids books
The Top 10 books for kids this Christmas - lovingly chosen by The Book House in Thame, purveyors of one of the top kids sections in the county!
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Muddy meets Mandy!
Pizza with Brendan Cole, a double act with Christopher Biggins and the blingiest panto dressing room of them all. Mandy Muden, who plays the MIrror in Snow White at Wycombe Swan next month, tells all.
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Muddy makes the glossies
I'm too proud to be modest - check out Muddy Stilettos over SIX pages in the brilliant Psychologies magazine!
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Hey, don’t I know you from somewhere?
Tring Park School for the Performing Arts churns out constellations of new generation stars - wanna see the latest batch of A-listers?
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Find out more about the most prestigious lifestyle awards in mid and southern England
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