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I'm Catherine, editor of Muddy Warwickshire, here to bring you the quirky, cool and downright unmissable in the area.

Gotta Have It

Making plans? Find your perfect Pub, Inn, Hotel, Café, Restaurant or Bar across the Muddy counties.

Winter boltholesPack that overnighter and give yourself the break you deserve, with 37 curated cosy breaks across the Muddy counties.
Troilus and Cressida, RST, StratfordIt's back to the future in the RSC's Mad Max post-apocalyptic version of Troilus and Cressida with music by solo percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
A Spooktacular half-termNeed some help? Here's 40+ fangtastic things to do with kids and teens this Halloween half-term - pronto!
Muddy makes the glossies!Our ed-in-chief Hero Brown on being a 6-page centre-fold in Psychologies magazine - alongside Thor star Chris Hemsworth!
30 Arts and Culture highlights: WarwickshireHere's the Muddy Warwickshire guide to the must-see music, literary events, theatre, comedy and more for autumn 2018.
Review: RSC's TamburlaineJude Owusu is chillingly charismatic in Michael Boyd’s stylish take on Marlowe's epic Elizabethan gore-fest.

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MON OCT 22 - SUN OCT 28

OCTOBER

The latest handpicked businesses we think you’ll love

The Castle at Edgehill

Muddy goes all ‘Rapunzel’ and checks into an impressive 15th Century folly for the night with panoramic views over a famous Civil War battlefield.
- 2019’s Michelin winners
  
  The best places to eat in Warwickshire and the Midlands from swanky restaurants to country pubs.
- Jacob’s Plough, Bicester
  
  Best-selling crime writer Sharon Bolton turns her forensic eye to this stylish, family-friendly pub in Bicester.
- The Belfry Hotel & Resort
  
  Dine and snooze at this 4* top golf, leisure and spa resort in the North Warwickshire countryside. Like we did...
- The George Townhouse
  
  This award-winning former 18th Century coaching inn in Shipston-on-Stour is a cool boutique stay and lip-smackingly good dining spot!

Our honest reviews of the UK’s best schools

Our curated A-Z of the grooviest local businesses

Girls’ weekend getaways

Try these 30 awesome spas, inns, bars and retreats across the Muddy counties and reconnect with your bezzies in style.
- The Big Beautiful Beach House
  
  This impressive family home in Cornwall was the setting for Richard Curtis' film, About Time and now you can rent it out and make your own memories here. Shall we have a snoop around?
- The loveliest pubs with rooms
  
  Fancy a weekend away in the countryside? The Muddy editors across 19 counties know all the best spots for a relaxed overnighter.

ON THE HUNT FOR COOL CREPS

Trainers so chic that only a fool would take them near a gym are everywhere this season – including some places you wouldn’t expect. Guess where these beauties are from?
- New season, new shoes
  
  Clear some space on the shoe rack - I've rounded up my Top 15 footwear favourites for autumn, from elegant ankle boots to the super-cool sneakers.
- Grrrrrr! The really wild show
  
  On the prowl for this season's hottest print? Leopard is a cult classic given an AW18 reboot. Enter the fashion jungle for Muddy purrrfect picks.

Troilus and Cressida, RST, Stratford

It’s back to the future in the RSC’s Mad Max post-apocalyptic version of Troilus and Cressida with music by solo percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
- ‘It’s a real action-hero, ‘Marvel’-like play’
  
  Super-stylish rising RSC talent Amber James on Gregory Doran's Mad-Max-style futuristic dystopian vision of Troilus and Cressida.
- Read these! October’s best books
  
  Clear space on your Kindle! Muddy's pro bookworm, Kerry Potter, has some literary inspiration for you.
- Muddy’s best autumn culture
  
  It's all going on! Behold, your cheat-sheet to the season's best art, theatre, music and film, as curated by Muddy's deeply cultural Kerry Potter.
- Review: RSC’s Tartuffe
  
  BAFTA and Emmy-Award winning TV writers Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto reimagine Moliere’s great French comedy in modern-day Brum.

Co-working: 5 reasons to do it

Are you tired of working from home? Sick of setting up in coffee shops? Maybe you’re over the rigidity of long-term office leases? Then it’s time to consider co-working.
- Flexible working – a personal view
  
  It's a contentious issue, that's for sure! As a full-time working mum and business owner, Hero Brown can see both sides of that fence. Wanna know what Muddy's founder and editor-in-chief thinks?
- The Parent’s Guide to Surviving Exam Results…
  
  because it's not just the kids who are bricking it on GSCE, AS and A level results days this year, right?!
Kids
- A Spooktacular half-term
  
  Need some help? Here's 40+ fangtastic things to do with kids and teens this Halloween half-term - pronto!
- Want to connect better with your teen?
  
  Experts will be giving three handy talks for parents in Coventry and Warwickshire on helping to overcome common challenges.

Muddy makes the glossies!

Our ed-in-chief Hero Brown on being a 6-page centre-fold in Psychologies magazine – alongside Thor star Chris Hemsworth!
- Muddy Literary Salon is Back!
  
  And we've snaffled a panel of three dazzling writers Vic Grokop, Cosmo editor Farrah Storr and Caroline O'Donoghue, writer for The Pool.
- An Elizabethan/TOWIE mash-up?
  
  We meet Fiona Laird for a chinwag about her RSC directorial debut, The Merry Wives of Windsor, fame and seeing Daniel Craig naked…
- Muddy meets Clara Amfo
  
  Winning TV quiz Pointless, playing basketball with Justin Bieber, crying over Oprah Winfrey - it's all in a day's work for Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo. Muddy is enamoured with its new BFF.
- Meet the RSC’s new Juliet
  
  Super-modest and down-to-earth Glaswegian actress Karen Fishwick is a girl after our own hearts here at Muddy – “passionate” about drinking and good food!