Hotel Chocolat has to be one of my favourite food-related brands - one, because of their amazing chocolate, but also because I think they have great ethics. So when I got the opportunity to attend one of their "Chocolate Tasting Adventures" in the Manchester Arndale store, I was more enthusiastic than I don't know what! … Continue reading Hotel Chocolat: School of Chocolate
A sunny Sunday is a great opportunity for getting out and about, and yesterday I paid a visit to Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). I think comfy and casual weekend outfits are best for exploring museums, so it was the perfect chance to give my new Rock on Ruby Exercise sweatshirt its first … Continue reading Museum Trip Outfit: Cropped Slogan Sweatshirt
Top Hat is the stage musical version of the classic Hollywood musical featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It’s a film I’ve seen, but didn’t particularly love, because honestly I find the plot really dull. Of course it has some lovely songs and some memorable moments, such as Fred and Ginger dancing the glorious iconic … Continue reading Reviewed: Top Hat, the Musical
It’s always nice to meet up with other Manchester and North West bloggers, and this week Rock on Ruby hosted a fab event for us – the #RORBlogSwap. The idea of the Blog Swap was to re-gift/trade items of clothing, accessories and unused beauty items, because we all have some unwanted items gathering dust that … Continue reading Rock on Ruby Blog Swap
This week I enjoyed a midweek treat, as Jamie's Italian invited me along to check out their Manchester restaurant. Jamie Oliver's restaurant chain now has 30 individual restaurants, and the Manchester one has the benefits of a great location on King Street and being housed in a gorgeous renovated 1930's bank building (complete with vault, which has been … Continue reading Reviewed: Jamie’s Italian, Manchester
Everyone is loving a hot cloth cleanser right now, and I've just discovered a new one. Tropic is a lovely British company with both great products and great ethics. They're environmentally friendly and avoid using unsustainable palm oil among other things (which I love because the palm oil industry is basically a bad thing for the survival … Continue reading Tropic Hot Bamboo Smoothing Cleanser
I've owned a few workout videos/DVDs in the past and found that I got bored of them pretty quickly. After going through them a couple of times I lose interest and they end up gathering dust on my shelves and that's actually what happened with this New York City Ballet Workout too, but I've recently pulled it … Continue reading New York City Ballet Workout DVD
I own two of the Hairy Dieters books now and as I have road-tested quite a few of the recipes I thought I'd share some of my favourites with you, and maybe even recommend one of the books as being better than the other. I think the main thing to remember with the Hairy Dieters is that many of these … Continue reading The Hairy Dieters – My Favourite Recipes
All the shops are well into their new season products now, and it’s the homeware that is really catching my eye! Here are the cute and quirky things I’ve been loving lately… Goose doorstop from M&SDuck egg mixing jug from LakelandSilicone biscuit stamps from Debenhams"Tea" jam jar from DebenhamsRetro alarm clock from ASDAPin-ups duvet set from ASDAGrocery … Continue reading New Season Home Inspiration
After a very successful campaign last year The Empty Shop 2015 launches again today at Manchester Arndale. The Empty Shop is a charity fashion project, and together Manchester Arndale and Manchester-based homeless charity, The Mustard Tree, will be creating awareness of homelessness as well as generating funds for the charity. The idea is that there … Continue reading The Empty Shop is Open!
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