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More Dash than Cash

'More dash than cash' - a phrase borrowed from UK Vogue referring to style on a budget. But here it's also a place posts are filed away if they are about somewhere you can (literally) dash to - be it for a quick dinner or just something/somewhere easy, low maintenance and relatively good value...
House & Home

Come and Eat in My Carpark

By On Monday, 10 September 2012

Eating outside is an angmoh thing. English people love it. So when I turned my carport in to my dining room (my house is not big, this was valuable square footage that… Read More

Beauty

DIY Box Becomes Best Ever Beauty Buy

By On Friday, 7 September 2012

I am not a desperately practical person. When we first rented the house we are still living in, I failed to spot that there wasn’t an oven in the kitchen (we got… Read More

Fash

Hush Now…This Is A Secret

By On Tuesday, 4 September 2012

In a bid to wear only high heels and be very glamourous in my day-to-day life, pre children, I once gave all my flat shoes to the charity shop in Marylebone High… Read More

Beauty

Mani with My Ma

By On Tuesday, 28 August 2012

One of the first things my mother does when she comes to visit me over here in Singapore, almost as soon as the ‘unbuckle your seatbelt’ sign on the plane has been… Read More

Beauty

The Best Head Massages in Town

By On Wednesday, 22 August 2012

I found out about this place – My Salon – through a Harley-Davidson-riding guy I met at an ex-ambassador to Singapore’s Christmas party. Deliciously random and unlikely…just how I like it.… Read More

Beauty

The Goldmine that is Far East Plaza

By On Tuesday, 21 August 2012

I love this mall. It may be a maze and almost impossible to ever find a shop in here that you’ve liked and been to before, but it’s about the only place… Read More

Beauty

When Someone with an Empty Suitcase Comes to Stay…

By On Friday, 17 August 2012

In the old days when you lived abroad – as in my case, abroad meaning away from England – it was generally things like Marmite that you asked people to bring with… Read More