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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.

Girls’ weekend getawaysTry these 30 awesome spas, inns, bars and retreats across the Muddy counties and reconnect with your bezzies in style.
Review: Tartuffe, Swan Theatre, StratfordReligious hypocrisy, #metoo “victim shaming”, Brexit jokes and a freestyle beatbox rap battle - Moliere’s great French comedy reimagined in modern-day Birmingham.
More sex please, we’re British!There's a lot of rumpy-pumpy on TV right now. And cheeringly not everyone involved resembles a 20something supermodel. It's a yes, yes, YES! from us.
An Elizabethan/TOWIE mash-up?We meet Fiona Laird for a chinwag about her RSC directorial debut, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 'celebrity' and seeing Daniel Craig naked…
The loveliest pubs with roomsFancy a weekend away in the countryside? The Muddy editors across 19 counties know all the best spots for a relaxed overnighter.

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MON SEPT 17 - SUN SEPT 23

SEPTEMBER 2018

The latest handpicked businesses we think you’ll love

Jacob’s Plough, Bicester

Going shopping at Bicester Village and looking for a groovy, boutique eating place?
- Cool local cafe
  
  Where can you pick up a 1970s retro American typewriter and order a gift box of award-winning gourmet brownies online while getting your daily fix of Monmouth Coffee? Read on...
- Mexican wave
  
  Sombreros and amigos at the ready? Then let's go eat at Cocina, the hot new Mexican restaurant at Xscape in Milton Keynes.
- 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!
- Meet the Winemaker
  
  Top Australian winemaker Larry Cherubino rocked up from down under for a wine-tasting at Slurp Leamington Spa.

Our honest reviews of the UK’s best schools

Our curated A-Z of the grooviest local businesses

Already thinking of your next holiday?

Well, if you go down to the woods, you’ll be sure of a big surprise. In a good way, mind. Luxury log forest cabin with extra treats for Muddy readers? Let’s go.
- Who wants to get married at The Copse?
  
  I do! The Muddy editors road tests this awesome private wedding house with its own 14-seater cinema and hot tub.
- Gin Heaven at The Feathers, Woodstock
  
  Take one 17th century hotel, add a 400-strong gin bar, mix in one of the prettiest towns in neighbouring Oxfordshire, and you're ready to be intoxicated by The Feathers Hotel.

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.
- Best foot forward
  
  15 ways to rock your footwear this month, from garden parties and weddings to the ultimate girls' night out.

Muddy’s best autumn culture picks

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.
- Girls on Film!
  
  The RSC's Merry Wives of Windsor was screened live to 500 cinemas this week - and guess who's caught on film?
- Watch this: Sylvia
  
  Celebrate 100 years of votes for women by watching this seriously kick-ass, hip-hop happening musical about the women at the heart of the movement
- Need a new read?
  
  We've finally dragged Kerry Potter off her sun lounger - she's baaack with September's finest new tomes.
- Tamburlaine, Swan Theatre, Stratford
  
  Jude Owusu is chillingly charismatic as the tyrannous warlord in Michael Boyd’s stylish take on Marlowe's epic Elizabethan gore-fest.

Wondering What’s Next For Your Teen?

A-level, AS and GCSE students will find out if they’ve achieved their grades this month. If they don’t get their desired results what are the options?
- The future’s AllBright
  
  Want to start your own business? Need funding to get to the next stage? Female entrepreneurs, breathe deep, smile wide and meet your new best friends.
- Does your worklife need a reboot?
  
  Job doing your head in? Or maybe it's lack of job that's the problem? Whatever the issue, our careers agony aunt is standing by to help you.
Kids
- Meet ‘botley’
  
  Never mind Mandarin, the language most useful to children in the future is most likely coding. Say hello to this cute coding bot from Learning Resources!
- 32 brilliant days out with the kids
  
  The weather's divine, a staycation is on the cards, and the children need occupying. Oh hello Muddy Stilettos!

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!
- Q&A with Joan Iyiola
  
  The actress talks student days at Cambridge Uni, #MeToo and the influence of Black Panther on her RSC Duchess of Malfi.