The increasingly popular restaurant trend to mark the changing months and celebrate seasonal food, thus encouraging us shoppers to buy & cook seasonal food at home, gets top marks in my book. There's some thing very comforting about the transition into Autumn, as the nights get darker, the meals get heartier, richer flavours and warmer... Continue Reading →
How to make a Pirate’s Treasure Chest from an old bedding box
Some of you may recall my swimming pool enthusiasm from the beginning part of 2013 and our delight as a campaigning group that our local Baths did indeed survive the threat of immediate closure and live to fight another day, another two whole years even. But those over armband age know how very quickly time... Continue Reading →
Our Cotswolds weekend full of golden stone & English gardens
I've visited some gorgeous places in the British Isles but last weekend's family wedding trip to the Cotwolds opened up a whole new box of prettiness, oh my days, I was in Instagram Heaven! Well, I would have been if there was any internet connection 😉 Golden Cotswolds stone, lush green hedging, flowers absolutely everywhere,... Continue Reading →
The Withington Baths 8237 wash away any thoughts of closure!
Completely delighted to tell you, on this sunny Manchester Monday, that the very passionate, heartfelt, community campaign to get Manchester City Council to rethink their proposed closure of Withington Baths and Leisure Centre has been successful, at least in the short term. It's been both an eye opener and an eye closer for me personally,... Continue Reading →
Inspired by a Beautiful Building
I guess in the professional sense, I've been a very remiss blogger this last few weeks. After Interiors UK in Birmingham, I posted a initial flurry of gorgeous design shots, then out of the blue came a post about campaigning, then silence. Life eh, that thing that comes along to smack you in the face... Continue Reading →
Manchester’s 2012 Olympic Legacy – Dead In The Water?
Team Moregeous are a little busy this week with Campaign Fever. We've got involved with the Save Withington Baths Campaign along with many, many other local residents passionate about our community pool and leisure centre. It's amazingly well used, packed all the time, a beautiful building, great staff, in the centre of the community &... Continue Reading →
Beinn Bhracaigh – a great little B’n’B in Pitlochry, Perthshire
Naughty enough as I feel for not having written a blog post for nearly three weeks, my guilt is assuaged by the amount of hard work I, Mr M and the team have been putting into our Half Built House projects. I've always watched DIY / makeover tv shows with a certain amount of healthy... Continue Reading →
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