Giveaway: Seed & Bean Organic Chocolate

By Wednesday, 12 March 2014 Brit Stuff, Food & Drink, Online Shopping, Shop Local

A square or two of dark chocolate after lunch is my guilty secret. As it’s dark, I feel I can justify it more easily than if the sugar content was higher (who am I kidding, it just means I can eat twice as much).

There are, though, a few ground rules to my chocolate scoffing: it obviously it has to taste great; if it’s organic, so much the better but taste is my main barometer. It also has to contain at least 60% cocoa solids, preferably 70%. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, it can’t have been made for the Asian or Australian market as I hate the anti-melting additives they slip in, giving it entirely the wrong texture.

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Old School Invitations

By Tuesday, 11 March 2014 Brit Stuff, Online Shopping, Parties and Premieres

I love receiving a proper, heavy invitation in the post. It gets the party you haven’t even gone to yet off to a very good start. But where can you find a place that produces engraved, weighty invites that, whilst never cheap, are marginally better value than what’s on offer here?

There’s Elephant & Coral in Wheelock Place of course and a sudden slew of individual letter press companies such as Paper Tigress and The Fingersmith Letterpress to name but a few but they don’t produce what it is I am after. I want to send out some super trad invitations that you could doff someone over the head with.

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From The Horse’s Mouth

By Friday, 7 March 2014 Food & Drink

I had a real internal struggle as to whether or not I was going to write about this new drinking den. Partly, and selfishly, I wasn’t going to because I didn’t like the idea of it becoming too mainstream…but then on the other hand, every bar needs customers or it will close.

So, let me tell you about the Horse’s Mouth.

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Organising My Life

By Tuesday, 4 March 2014 Beauty, More Dash than Cash, My Edits, My Holidays, Travel

I have a veneer of organisation. A thin one. Scratch the surface and it’s chaos. I am, however, feeling a new sense of empowerment having more or less tipped my house upside down and shaken it.

Everything that came loose has been edited, boxed, labelled or thrown out.  ‘Geeeeek’ I hear you scream. Yup – fair comment. The bit I enjoyed most? I am almost afraid to admit it….the labelling.

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French Beauty in SG

By Friday, 28 February 2014 Beauty, More Dash than Cash, Travel

I love a French pharmacy. I can spend hours in one snapping up beauty products that not only work but don’t break the bank. My favorite brand that is delightfully commonplace in chemists there is probably Caudalie. However, a little bit of French pharmacy joy has worked its way over to us here in Singapore…and for the princely sum of $15.

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