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I'm Catherine, editor of Muddy Warwickshire, here to bring you the quirky, cool and downright unmissable in the area.
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Spotlight
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Have pooch, will travel38 of the most lovely dog-friendly hotels, inns and cottages in the UK across 18 counties.
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Your Bumper Oct Half-Term GuideFrom apple pressing and potion making, to puppet shows, fab new family-friendly art exhibitions, spell-walks and ghost stories...
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Win: A Year's supply of ginWhen you get that Friday feeling nothing beats a Silent Pool gin and tonic. And now we have an brilliant competition that will keep you in gin for a year. Chin-Chin.
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Spooooooky Nights!Head over to one of Britain's most haunted castles this Halloween...
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West End Kids17 of the most child-friendly shows in the Capital.
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London CallingNeed a culture fix? Here's the capital's best art exhibitions this autumn - Rachel Whitbread, Basquiat, Modigliani and more.
What's On
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Muddy Eats: Kitchenorium
Experience a real-life Come Dine with Me at home chef Cat Dutton's pop-up restaurant.
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Stock Pot Cafe
The sustainable rural Warwickshire cafe with a conscience and a Muddy Award Finalist to boot!
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London Eats…With kids
Wondering where to stop for a bite to eat on a family day out in the Capital? Here are our 10 top picks.
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Have pooch, will travel
38 of the most lovely dog-friendly hotels, inns and cottages in the UK across 18 counties.
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Pashcoe House, Devon
Sharon at Muddy Devon visits Devon's newest country house hotel. Step inside so she can give you a guided tour...
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Half-term Shropshire Break?
A Muddy Guide to the Shropshire Hills and thereabouts, including Stokesay Court - the setting for Oscar-winning film Atonement.
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Most Read
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Competitions
Win: A Year’s supply of gin
When you get that Friday feeling nothing beats a Silent Pool gin and tonic. And now we have an brilliant competition that will keep you in gin for a year. Chin-Chin.
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Books
6 Autumn Reads
Didn’t manage to read these top tomes on the sunlounger? Just enjoy them cosied up on your sofa instead!
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Media
Muddy’s Little Black Book of fab local businesses!
The low-down on our exclusive LBB directory…
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Go Wild in the Country
We're calling it already - meet the dress of the season, in all its Liberty print loveliness.
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Muddy Loves Essie
New season, new nails - time to ditch the summer neons and check out Essie's new muted autumnal hues.
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Muddy Tries: Decleor Holistic Facial & Deluxe Pedicure
Two late summer holiday beauty prep treatments reviewed at Coventry's award-winning Lavella Beauty & Wellbeing.
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Where I Live and What I Live For
Rabiah Hussain's new 30-minute one woman play was commissioned by the UK’s only Shop Front Theatre - a former chippie in City Arcade, Coventry.
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Pink Sari Revolution, until Sat Oct 21
Theatre director Subas Das on meeting women's rights campaigner Sampat Pal, leader of India’s famous pink sari wearing gang.
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Dido, Queen of Carthage
Christopher Marlowe's rarely performed play at The Swan, Stratford is a revelation.
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Lapsang Truffles
It's National Chocolate Week 2017, Oct 9-15. Here's a decadent recipe from a Michelin-starred chef to celebrate the occasion...
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Wellbeing
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7 Benefits of Weight Lifting
Forget bulging biceps and thunderous thighs, we're talking weight loss, lean muscle mass and healthy bones - er, yes please!
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Elan Spa Break, Mallory Court
Just two months after opening, Elan Spa at Mallory Court Country House Hotel nabbed the very first coveted Muddy Warwickshire Award for Best Day Spa. Here's why...
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Career Crisis?
Whatever your career dilemma, there’s a book for that! Here’s our pick of the 5 most super-useful new self-help books.
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How to be happier at work
Are you a sad desk luncher? Top business psychologist and academic Tony Crabbe offers advice on how to re-define the way you work.
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Kids
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Your Bumper Oct Half-Term Guide
From apple pressing and potion making, to puppet shows, fab new family-friendly art exhibitions, spell-walks and ghost stories...
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Bosworth College
A cosmopolitan international day and boarding school for ages 14 -19 close to Market Harborough.
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Your Festival Wedding
Katrina Willis, owner of Muddy award-winning Beautiful Bells, down in Hampshire gives us her top 10 tips on how to to pull off your wedding in a field.
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One to Watch: Sope Dirisu
This talented Birmingham Uni economics graduate discusses his RSC debut as brilliant Roman general Coriolanus opposite award-winning Hadyn Gwynne.
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Peak Insta?
Less hottie, more hot mess? Worry not. See these funny — really, belly-ache funny — spoofs of those Insta-famous feeds that make us normal gals feel rhubarb about our bodies.
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Lord of the Rings
Meet Birmingham School of Jewellery graduate Fei Liu, 2016's Designer of the Year. Funny, talented and basically lord of the rings (and necklaces, bracelets etc)
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