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Top 10 non-fiction books for Xmas
Still in need of Christmas present inspiration? Janet at Gerrard’s Cross Bookshop has helpfully recommended 10 excellent new non-fiction titles for the bookworm in your life. What’s more, the shop is offering Muddy readers 15% off any of the books below until Christmas Eve. Just show them this feature on Muddy (or tell them you’ve seen […]
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Top 10 Xmas books for kids ages 8-12
Here you go, the second of the Muddy book guides to help you decide the best tomes for Christmas. As usual we’ve deployed the local experts, this time picking Sam’s brain at Books & Ink on her Top 10 fiction picks for kids 8-12. Star Wars Galactic Atlas This is the must have Christmas present […]
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Win this leather overnight bag!
OMG, I really love this leather overnight/weekender bag from Holy Cow in Aylesbury, my fourth giveaway in my £2,000 12 days of Crimbo competition. There aren’t many quality independent shops in Aylesbury so it’s hats off to Holy Cow whose quality leather and stylish, Asian-inspired homewares have made their mark on the town. This bag […]
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Win £2000 of awesome festive prizes
Yeah alright, alright, I’m starting my 12 Days of Christmas comp slightly late but what’s a week between friends? I’ve collated a dozen gifties worth nearly £2,000 – yes £2,000 people! – and every day I’ll give away one prize, chosen from newsletter subscribers, and facebook, IG and twitter followers. The more ways you show your […]
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Finch cashmere
There's no shortage of lovely cashmere brands but there's always room for another one, so it's a cosy welcome to Wiltshire-based brand Finch.
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Wouldn’t you though?
Well this was fun! A fab idea for kids for Xmas, or even as a monthly prod to pause the gaming and do something practical and different, this is The Curiosity Box...
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STYLE: Kim Winser’s Top 6 buys for A/W 16
Muddy Stilettos has many celebrity readers – Rihanna, Princess Kate, Michelle Obama (um, I may be exaggerated slightly here). But one high profile, supercool lady who honestly does love the blogaroo is Kim Winser, above, owner of the brilliant designer Winser London brand and ex head honcho at Pringle, Aquascutum and Agent Provocateur. Winser London, […]
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Wouldn’t you though?
Have you come across one of these spherical speakers before, ablaze with full-on whacky colour and pulsing out the kind of music that leaves your earlobes aching?
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Wouldn’t you though?
Mwah! OK, so I *have* to have this ring. The elegant Henley-based Studio 35 has had a brief sojourn into kitsch territory with this awesome piece of fingerware.
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Secret Messages sale is (quietly) on!
You have to admire a shop that makes the switch before anyone else. Secret Messages Interiors in Buckingham was an elegant gunmetal grey for a while. then everyone else cottoned on and it wasn’t fun any more. So now they’re a fetching pistachio green instead. I like pottering around North Buckinghamshire, where the pace of […]
