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London Fashion Week review: Malan Breton
Sep 25 2023- Madeleine
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‘Wherever you go, shine’. So goes Malan Breton’s motto, and he definitely walks the walk. Diamanté on black, glittering trains, glossy PVC in black and red, brushed silver, shimmery silks…
Travel with kids: Carcassonne, Occitanie, France, in two days
Sep 25 2023- Madeleine
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Carcassonne in Occitanie, South-Eastern France, is a small place, and I had allocated two days; I was on my way to Narbonne where I was invited to a wedding by the family of my French exchange of 40 years.
Travel with kids: The Netherlands – The hot new not-so-hot summer destination
Sep 24 2023- Madeleine
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According to Tui in the Times recently, (10 August) ‘Holidaymakers will swap Med for Belgium’, I mean who needs forest fires and 40 degrees in the shade? I whole-heartedly support this, based on my recent trend-setting visit to the neighbouring Netherlands, another country which has been unjustifiably overlooked. I might be suffering from some rose-tintedness, but the country seems bloody ideal to me, and here’s why. The infrastructure says innovative, pragmatic, optimistic, stylish. The people oooze organisation AND bon-viveur. How is that pawssible? The Top 6 features of the Netherlands I loved were the public transport, roads, food, architecture, Men and wellbeing.
Film review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 starring John Corbett and Nia Vardalos
Sep 13 2023- Madeleine
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Twenty years after the first instalment, John Corbett and Nia Vardalos are bringing back My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. London Mums have checked it out to reveal whether it’s worth a trip to the cinema.
Coping with curls, bane or blessing
Sep 04 2023- Madeleine
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Coping with curls – bane or blessing – Oh for straight hair that does as it’s told. ‘Why? Curls are adorrrable’, you say. Because. The first rule of natural curls is: there IS no rule. No consistency across your scalp, and no two are the same. I get corkscrews framing my face, but at the back I’m blessed with scrub. Nor do my ringlets bond in the same way on any two given days. We live in dread of the humid, just as hayfever sufferers fear pollen; humid means loss of control, and your cat-walk blow-dry lasting all of 10 minutes outside. So your coiff is a surprise pretty much every time you catch sight of yourself, a disappointing surprise.
