Garnet is the birthstone for January. It’s a lovely red stone which comes in different hues but we like the real blood red ones. It is possible to get blue garnets for your January birthstone jewellery, but they are very rare, and come from Madagascar. We will have to send an explorer, a pick, and...

As a nod to our American friends we’ve celebrated the 4th of July with one of our favourite cocktails – the ‘Buck Stops Here’ at the fabulous Pollen Street Social. Yes Americans, we too can make a good cocktail and we’re also damn good at drinking them… well it would be rude not to wouldn’t it?...

Yes my friends your children have done it! They have studied (sometimes) they have cooked for themselves, (sort of, if that includes pop tarts, and cheese toasties) they have lived ‘independently’ and they have negotiated the complex and often new experience, of falling in love.

When I googled interpretive dance to try and explain the concept to a friend, I never would have thought I’d stumble across this gem. Four guys create hilarious choreographed dance routines to 90’s club classics in their living room. It’s the little touches that make this so brilliant, like the...