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I'm Hero, founder of Muddy Stilettos, here to bring you the quirky, cool and downright unmissable across the counties.
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Making plans? Find your perfect Pub, Inn, Hotel, Café, Restaurant or Bar across the Muddy counties.
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Beauty Pie - your new beauty BBFBeauty Pie is *the* cult skin, hair and make-up brand everyone's talking about - and we've got an exclusive Muddy offer (code MUDDYSENTME) just for you!
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Spa time!Back to work, harassed and, quite frankly, in need of a spa day? Read on for 41 best pamper spots across the Muddy counties.
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How to tell if your child is thriving at schoolWorried whether your child is really happy and getting the most out of school? Use these 6 measures from a top headteacher to help work it out.
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New season, new home!Summer has gone. Deal with it. Embrace Autumn with these 6 breezily cool interior trends of rich colours, retro shapes and pared-back natural materials.
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Muddy Book Club LIVE!Tickets for our Muddy Book Club Live at Henley Literary Festival next month are selling like hotcakes. Be there or be square!
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The Swan, Ascott-under-Wychwood
Did someone say quintessential Cotswold pub with a twist? Let us in, right now. We go deep into the Oxfordshire countryside to have a gander (sorry) at the brand spanking new Swan in pretty Ascott-under-Wychwood.
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Regally yours: The Crown Inn, Church Enstone
Fine art and luxe design: this Cotswolds pub is upping its game thanks to a fresh new fleet of B&B rooms. Muddy checks in and checks it out.
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The Boxing Hare
A strong Muddy fave, The Boxing Hare in Swerford comes out fighting with a Michelin chef, experienced owners, a newly renovated orangerie and celeb clientele. Book us in!
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The Globe, Newbury
One of Newbury's oldest pubs has become a dog-friendly hip hangout that boasts a cool culinary collaboration with a Muddy Award winner. Who's up for yappy hour?
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The Bull on Bell Street
This stylish pub works for cocktail drinkers, girl's lunches, family roasts and pretty much everything in between. Read my review, digest, and go!
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Fancy a break this half term?
Need to make a fast getaway? Don’t move a muscle till you’ve checked out my pick of 8 last-minute family breaks in the West Country.
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Is this the best family villa in the world?
Thinking of next year's hols already? Got Mudlets in tow? How about a family villa in, well, absolute paradise?
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The Lygon Arms, Broadway
Broadway in Worcestershire is arguably the most lovely of the Cotswolds villages - and we know exactly where you should be staying!
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EAT OUT
The Boxing Hare
A strong Muddy fave, The Boxing Hare in Swerford comes out fighting with a Michelin chef, experienced owners, a newly renovated orangerie and celeb clientele. Book us in!
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Muddy Best Schools Guide
St Mary’s School, Henley, Oxfordshire
Muddy says: Looking for Oxfordshire primary schools? Check out this small, nurturing, high-achieving co-ed option in central Henley.
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Kids
Kimbolton School (Snr), Huntingdon
You’ll find 120 acres of glorious grounds and a stunning castle setting at this high-achieving co-ed day/boarding senior school (11-18), with a strong all-rounder rep.
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Culture
Mad for ‘Madagascar’
You wanna move it move it? Grab the kids and hoik them to ‘Madagascar’ at Aylesbury Waterside from 14 Sept. Here are 5 reasons to book it right now, starting with the X-Factor’s Matt Terry.
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Culture
Outdoor cinema in Sussex & nearby 2019
Find your nearest of 15 Sussex screens and another seven nearby showing outdoor movies this summer
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Fashion
J’adore/ J’abhor
In our new Muddy regular, we look at both sides of a hot topic that’s currently dividing office opinion. This week: the return of bucket hats.
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Forty years of fashion
This season’s trends nibble from the Seventies, Eighties, Nineties and Noughties. Here’s how to channel the decades but keep your look modern.
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Pyjama time!
It's suddenly dark, cold and wet outside - let's hunker down and cheer ourselves up with some chic new pyjamas (yes, such things do actually exist).
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New London labels
Fancy the first look at two brand new online London fashion labels? We're here to help!
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J’adore / J’abhor
This week's Muddy heated debate: whether or not to embrace a full head of grey hair. Eeeek! or chic? We duke it out.
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Beauty bargains
Quick, raid a teenage girl’s make-up bag! Budget beauty is big news right now. Here are some corkers that’ll only set you back a few quid.
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FIRST LOOK: The Boy in the Dress
Back of the net! Footie, fashion and choreography come together in the RSC’s new adaptation of David Walliams’ children’s novel. Take a peek ahead of next month’s opening night.
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Need a juicy new read?
Muddy's bookworm Kerry Potter has glorious celeb gossip, literary big-hitters and a must-read on relationships this month. Read all about her October picks - and then win the lot!
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Awesome Autumn culture planner
It's all going on! Behold, your cheat-sheet to the season's best art, theatre, TV, books and film in the UK, as curated by Muddy's extremely cultural Kerry Potter.
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Read THESE this month…
... and win 'em all! Curl up into a comfy chair, pour a glass of wine, and dive into a new fab book with this month's hottest new reads.
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Everyone’s talking about…
Jude Law, baby! Or should that be his itty bitty very pretty papal white budgie smugglers? Banish your other half for five minutes and ogle the trailer in peace.
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Muddy meets… The Oxfordshire Gardener
What would you ask an award-winning garden designer? What hand cream he uses, if his own garden ever looks rubbish and who's his favourite green-fingered celeb, obviously!
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Speedy supper anyone?
If you're sick to death of your weekday cooking repertoire (yup) then here's some quick and classy culinary inspiration for you. Yum!
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Wellbeing
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Three easy wellbeing tips to try today
Running around like a loony? Brain fried? Stress overload? In the interests of our collective sanity, I've sniffed out some great advice to help us restore balance. And breathe...
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Feel the burn
Feeling the need to unwind? Want to support a stylish local business? Strike a light and relax as hard as you can with these recycled, vegan candles from Oxon-based Hunters Moon
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The bane of your working life?
Imposter syndrome is a problem for women in offices up and down the land and it's holding us back. Here's my personal take.
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Making work work for you
Back at your desk after summer fun and not really feeling it? We hear you. Here's some food for thought from the autumn's hottest self-help book by ex Elle journalist turned author Lotte Jeffs.
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Kids
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Tom Gates on stage
Part play, part living cartoon, part gig, Tom Gates live - in Brighton Wed 2 - Sat 5 Oct - stays pleasingly close to Liz Pichon's best-selling books.
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Gayhurst School, Gerrards Cross
Muddy says: The only co-ed prep school in or around Gerrards Cross, Gayhurst marries a happy 'village school' atmosphere with excellent pastoral care.
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Muddy meets… The Oxfordshire Gardener
What would you ask an award-winning garden designer? What hand cream he uses, if his own garden ever looks rubbish and who’s his favourite green-fingered celeb, obviously!
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GBBO contestant, Priya O’Shea
We're chuffed that she's repping Leicester on this year's series of The Great British Bake Off. Here's everything you need to know about the amateur baker.
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Yup, stage school works!
Another year and another surge of nascent stars of the stage and screen graduate from Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Want to meet them?
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