Save to My Nest Contributor Lisa Henry will be giving us regular updates about what’s hot to trot in the interiors world. In this episode she brings us tablescaping (who knew such a thing existed) which folk have turned into not just an artform but a successful business in some cases. Here’s her take on …
Save to My Nest Want to read a book about a real trailblazing female icon? Then get your hands on Mad Woman, the true story of journalist Nellie Bly. In 1887 Bly faked insanity in order to be committed to her local asylum and to go undercover to expose the wretched conditions she found there …
Save to My Nest Our latest contributor The Secret Scientist tells us in the first of a series of articles what it’s like to be at the forefront of his research… Science to me is a marathon consisting of sequential periods of sprinting in opposing directions, often resulting in the feeling that you have travelled …
Curing the Incurable: My Experience at the Coalface of Cancer Science. Read More »
Save to My Nest There is a canny new app out which enables you to see what your local foodbank needs, where the drop off points are and gives you real time information about supply and demand which foodbanks are often just too busy to do regularly. BanktheFood is an innovative free app which links …
Save to My Nest Sean Potter: “I’ve been making images with a camera since my teen years. I will be sixty soon. In the early 90s I was made redundant from the day job – then, a sensible alternative to scraping a living in the photography game – and with the ‘handshake’ money purchased some …
Save to My Nest To have a gardening book endorsed by Alan Titchmarsh as ‘Clear modern and inspiring’ is praise indeed. Lucy Hutchings describes how she fell into the world of Horticulture at a time when she needed distraction from her very exciting but emotionally taxing career as a designer and maker of jewellery and …
Save to My Nest It’s boiling out there folks and not likely to change anytime soon so what do you fancy to eat and drink? Not much we imagine, so here are some ideas from Deb Perelman from Smitten Kitchen… (measurements are old fashioned as Deb hails from New York!) Watermelon & Cucumber Salad About …
Save to My Nest Eleven contemporary African artists come together for this show bringing a mixture of painting, sculpture, mixed media and photography to the Southbank’s Hayward Gallery until the 18th of September. Myth, science fiction, spiritual traditions and the legacy of Afrofuturism are all sampled, reimagined and re-contextualised in In the Black Fantastic. Encompassing painting, …
Save to My Nest It’s been so flippin’ hot that the best thing to do is watch telly with a fan going. Apart from what seems to have been an endless few weeks of sport (if I hear the phrase’ but it’s only once a year’ again I’ll scream!) there have been some great new …
Save to My Nest If you’re lucky enough to live not more than five minutes from the sea as I do and you enjoy a bit of a collect and forage, then these two little books are just lovely. The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail is the first and just lovely. …
