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Changmoh Stays: LLoyd’s Inn

By Changmoh • Wednesday, 28 January 2015 • Day Trips, Hotels & Places to Stay, Lobang City Guides, My Edits, Travel

Its not often I am asked on a staycation by anyone other than Mr Changmoh, (and even that’s a rarity) so when Lloyd’s Inn asked me to come and road test their sleek, chic boutique hotel one night last week, I was thrilled. In part because I am on this wretchedly hard, very healthy, clean and lean diet (green veg plus meat/fish/shellfish for one whole month) and a night away makes A. Very. Tough. Week. One. slip by just a mite faster. And secondly, who doesn’t like a night away?

I think I am not alone when I say that before my invite, I hadn’t heard of Lloyd’s Inn.

A fashion shoot and a WWII bullet

By Changmoh • Saturday, 24 January 2015 • Fash, Local Issues

At a glance these two things don’t have a huge amount in common. Well, nothing at all in fact…until today.

I drove Mr Changmoh’s old red merc (which goes by the name of Ariel) to a shoot this morning at a Tanamera-style black and white house that makes me want to ditch my suburban existence and never look back:

The stealth flip flop

By Changmoh • Monday, 19 January 2015 • Fash, My Edits

I hate myself when I am wearing flip flops. I walk lazily, stand lazily and, in general, feel that I shuffle along in a fashion not dissimilar to an old uncle at a wet market on his way to buy chwee kueh.

Well…get this. These babies (pictured) are indeed flip flops but so heavily disguised that you instantly feel better, walk better and look better.

Floatation therapy and why you should try it

By Changmoh • Tuesday, 13 January 2015 • Beauty, Health & Fitness, My Holidays

I have always wondered what it would be like inside a floatation tank. The very fact that one hour’s float is the equivalent to four hours’ deep sleep is enough to appeal to almost everyone I know.

Antiques and auction houses

By Changmoh • Tuesday, 6 January 2015 • Brit Stuff, Festivals, Hotels & Places to Stay, House & Home, More Dash than Cash, My Edits, My Holidays, Online Shopping, Travel

Our house in Cheltenham – or ‘Chelty’ as I alone like to call it – has been rented out, unfurnished, for the last six years while Mr Changmoh, Cost Centre #1, #2 and I have been living in Sin(gapore). We have now reclaimed it – for a short while at least – and holed up here over the Christmas holiday. Cue a massive online shopping spree for beds, sofas, tables and chairs before our arrival in mid-December.

Following copious research – well, a bit of light Googling – and after finding myself sitting next to a lovely auctioneer at a dinner party (CL-O, I salute you) I discovered that you can pick up a bunch of beautiful antique furniture from around 200 auction houses across the UK online at unbelievably good prices. As Cheltenham is not going to be my permanent home, not sinking a fortune in to furnishings seems to make a modicum of sense. Read More