July skin rituals: From hedgerow to beach Summer has landed, July is here with an epic heatwave and we're all spending more time outdoors. Long evenings in the garden, salty skin, sea swimming, festivals, camping trips, family visits, beach bags by the door, sand everywhere and bare feet whenever we can get away with it. More sunshine, more heat, more wind, more sea, more late nights, more dancing and more time spent outdoors. Summer can leave your skin feeling different, e

Get the Solstice Glow Although the weather may not be giving *summer* every day, we’ve certainly had the warmth ~ the hedgerows seem to have changed almost overnight. Everything feels greener, fuller and more alive, with elderflower frothing in the lanes, wild roses beginning to appear and those long light evenings that make you want to stay outside by the firepit or on the beach until the very last bit of light disappears over the horizon. The summer solstice is just aroun

The long weekend is upon us, and I don’t know about you, but I find it easy to get swept up in the effervescence of Springtime and forget to slow down, leaving me feeling depleted rather than energised. I am more than ready for a little pause.

The hedgerows are brimming, the woodlands are waking, and there’s a quiet sense of abundance everywhere you look. All those winter storms are beginning to fade from memory.

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Plantain might just be the most powerful little plant you’ve walked past a thousand times. No, not the banana—I'm talking about the wild...

Jump straight to the section you want: Why is cacao good for you? What is the difference between cacao and cocoa? Go straight to recipe As a proud lifelong chocoholic, I have eaten several squares of chocolate every day with an almost religious fervour. I have clung to the well know fact that a square or two of dark chocolate is in fact good for you - and so it is - but who can stop at two? Photo: pile of chocolate with fragments by Tetiana Bykovets The problem with a chocol

We all want to look and feel our best, but too often we pay too much attention to what we can do on the outside, thinking that it will...