shopping
Have you ever cancelled plans for a night in?
In a survey earlier this year it was found that 36% of Britons would admit to cancelling their plans last minute so they could have a night in. With the nights drawing in and temperatures dropping, the temptation is high. …
ZaraMama Gourmet Popcorn
We went down to Brighton last weekend. My mother-in-law very kindly had the kids and we had one of those weekends that we probably could have had much more pre-children, but didn’t – or did, but didn’t appreciate. However, you’re …
The Sleep Room
I love linen bed linen. I love it because it looks great. I love it because it feels beautiful to sleep on. I just love it, so much so that I paid more than I care to remember to get …
Bobble bottles
If you think persuading people to pay good money for bottled water was one of the great marketing scams of the late 20th Century, then asking people to spend ten pounds on a water bottle sounds like it should come …
Personalised M&Ms
There are some people, I find, who are very good at writing thank you letters, there are others who are not. I fall very much in the second camp, which I’m not at all proud of but would not be …
Pierre Herme Macaroons
If the French excel at two things above all others, it is retail merchandising and pastry making. So a French pastry shop is always likely to be amazing – and doubly so when it belongs to Pierre Herme, the most …
Wool & The Gang
I shouldn’t be encouraging anyone to take up knitting – after all, if you all become experts at purling and frogging and the like, you won’t need to buy your knitwear from hush. But I have no problem introducing you …
Merci
It’s really not such a bad job that allows you to spend a Wednesday wandering around the shops in Paris! However, it was very much on official hush business – that’s what I’m telling our accountant! – that just before …
Rocket Gardens
Even before the world economy did a swallow dive off a very tall cliff, there was a growing (excuse the pun) movement towards real food – fresh, seasonal, locally produced, organic etc. Well, food doesn’t come fresher, more seasonal and …
The best of…Spirit of Summer
It was nice to see so many hush customers at the Spirit of Summer fair last weekend and, it being the first show and therefore not as busy as its older sibling Spirit of Christmas, even nicer to have the …
