London events

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Secrets from the Walled Garden - beauty workshop bookings open

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Secrets from the Walled Garden - beauty workshop bookings open

I am running a morning workshop with Fulham Palace in November, its a beautiful place with a fascinating history and a secret oasis in the metropolis.  

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Shop, Read, Eat Chocolate

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Shop, Read, Eat Chocolate

A little retail therapy might just be in order with the Autumn nights drawing in; the lure of a good book and the siren call of the confectioners’ art is all too tempting.

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Beauty Secrets Workshop

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Beauty Secrets Workshop

Here is a belated write up of my morning workshop in August at Hampton Court Palace, as part of the events to run alongside their ‘The Wild,  the Beautiful and the Damned’ exhibition.

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Hallowe'en event - a Feast for the Senses

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Hallowe'en event - a Feast for the Senses

For me Autumn proper starts when the calendar hits October. Leaves are falling – red, russet, saffron and gold, the nights are drawing in earlier, the air has a woody, smoky ‘snap’ to it and my thoughts...

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It's Chocolate Week...

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It's Chocolate Week...

Any excuse to gorge on gourmand goodies  and since it is renowned  as ‘the food of the gods’ one would not want to risk heavenly retribution by denial or refusal – would one?!

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Scent & Architecture: Evocative structures

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Scent & Architecture: Evocative structures

An extract from Daniel Defoe‘s Journal of the Plague Year, 1722, is quoted in the book and he wrote: “If we came to go into a church when it was anything full of people, there would be...

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Stench and the City

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Stench and the City

I spotted this hilarious photo in The Metro, the nose sculpture was picked to promote the The London Dungeons'  'Stinky Summer' exhibition.