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Shazia Murza’s Favourite Places
Rarely have I laughed out loud so much while interviewing a celeb. That Shazia is well funny - who else would pick the M40 services as a favourite place?!
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Griselda’s Secret Oxford
Griselda Heppel is an award-winning children’s author, living in Oxford with her husband and four children. Heppel’s book Ante’s Inferno, a modern re-telling of Dante’s journey through Hell, won the Children’s award in the People’s Book Prize 2013. Her second novel The Tragickall History of Henry Fowst was published in 2015. The Painted Room, Cornmarket Street, […]
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My Favourite Places: Victoria Wellington from Sojo Kitchen
Foodie? Vintage lover? Victoria Wellington of Sojo Kitchen caterers hears ya. Here are a few of her favourite places, both near and far. Happy travels.
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My Favourite Places
William Stonor's family have owned stately home, Stonor Park, for a whopping 850 years, so it's fair to say they have a fair bit of local knowledge! Here are the places he loves most
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CRIME SCENE
Where does the Long Crendon-based crime writer Sharon Bolton love to spend her time? From London to Oxford and into the Chilterns, Muddy investigates
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LAURA’S FAVOURITE HANGOUTS
It was a mundane garage clear-out last year that provided Laura Redrup with her lightbulb moment. She had a stack of mismatched bone china pretty tea cups that she'd bought for her wedding reception a few years back but that were now gathering dust. Use them or lose them? She plumped for the former, setting up Laura's Travelling Teapot, a vintage-inspired afternoon tea catering business. A year on, the Chinnor-based mother-of-two provides delicious home-made cakes, scones and sandwiches for antiques fairs, weddings, hen parties and baby showers. Those teapots do indeed do a lot travelling around our region, so we asked Laura to give us the lowdown on her Fave Places....
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Hey Midge, nice ‘tash!
We love an ’80s rockstar here at Muddy. They don’t take themselves too seriously, they enjoy reminiscing about their worst ever haircuts (and neckerchiefs) and they always have great yarns about that time they got hammered back in 1984. Midge Ure, Ultravox singer, Band Aid co-founder and genial Glaswegian, is no exception. He’s playing ace local festival […]
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We love Clover
She’s lived all over the world, but author Clover Stroud is now back home in Oxfordshire, so we’ve tapped her up for her local recommendations.
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My Favourite Places
Opera isn’t just for the elite and nor does it have to be performed in staid, fancy venues, according to Mike Woodward, founder of Opera Anywhere. Since 2000, Mike and his wife Vanessa have sought to ditch the art form’s lofty connotations, producing performances everywhere from an ice cream van to the roof of a […]
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Adventurer Felicity Aston’s Favourite Places
Where does the first woman ever to ski across the Antarctic like to hang out when she's not in a bivouac in the freezing cold? You might be surprised!
