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Warwickshire

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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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Gotta Have It

Need a new tote for Autumn? Course you do! Choose from our Top 5 edit of the season's hottest cross-body bags and work your look from the accessories up.

Our curated A-Z of the grooviest local businesses

Awesome Autumn culture plannerIt's all going on! Behold, your cheat-sheet to the season's best art, theatre, TV, books and film in the UK, as curated by Muddy's extremely cultural Kerry Potter.
Schools Open Day AlertA new school year, and a fabulous new eco-Smart building with world class facilities for the girls at King's High on the Myton campus in Warwick . Hotfoot it to their Open Day this Fri and for the Sixth Form Open Evening next Wed (Sep 25).
Kenilworth Arts FestOur top picks among 10 days of amazing arts, one-off gigs, performance and spoken word in Warwickshire's historic town of Kenilworth from Thurs Sept 19 to Sat Sep 28.
Fancy a £1000 Luxury Family Hotel stay?Er YEAH! Read our review of stunning Fowey Hall in Cornwall, and snaffle a long weekender at one of five idyllic Luxury Family Hotels in Cornwall, Suffolk, Hants, Wilts or Dorset.
Win 7 perfect pieces to ease you into AutumnMuddy's fashion fave hush has triumphed with its new trans-seasonal collection, and we have five - yes FIVE! - sets of our fashion edit to give away, worth over £3600. Go, go, go!

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The Clarendon Arms, Kenilworth

Muddy pops into this unpretentious family-run traditional pub opposite Kenilworth Castle for Sunday lunch. Here’s the verdict…
- Is this the best pizza in England?
  
  To Warwick, for award-winning wood-fired sourdough pizzas, craft beers, waffles and decadent oozy milkshakes at hipster hangout, Dough and Brew.
- 46 stunning summer pubs
  
  Fancy sipping a cold one in a pretty al fresco pub with friends or fam? Here are the best of the bunch across the Muddy counties.
- The best brunch in town
  
  The most lipsmackingly indulgent meal of the day and we have 47 of the best ones to tempt you with, from vegan to full English, flat white to green detox. Just add friends and a hangover.
- The Red Lion Hunningham
  
  Here comes the sun - and an award-winning destination pub with a lovely riverside beer garden to soak up some rays with a chilled glass of rosé in hand. Cheers!

School Reviews

Our honest reviews of the UK’s best schools

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Fun Finder

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

Fancy a £1000 Luxury Family Hotel stay?

Er, YEAH! Read our review of stunning Fowey Hall (the inspiration for Toad Hall in Kenneth Graham’s ‘Wind in the Willows’) PLUS take your chance to win a long weekender at an Luxury Family Hotel in Cornwall, Suffolk, Hants, Wilts or Dorset. Poop poop!
- Fit for a queen?
  
  Muddy's Georgina Forsythe escapes to the country in the school holidays for some overnight R&R in the Warwickshire countryside.
- Glamping at Ettie’s Field, Atherstone
  
  Muddy's first over-nighter glamping experience in an Airstream or should I say 'glamper-vanning'. Find out if it was as fun as it sounds.

Fashion View more

Win 7 perfect pieces to ease you into Autumn

Muddy’s fashion fave hush has come up trumps yet again with its trans-seasonal collection – and we have five sets of our fashion edit to give away , worth over £3500. Go, go, go!
- Word up
  
  Too busy to say it yourself? Lacking the vocab to express your feelings after a long day battling spreadsheets or sprogs? Let a classic slogan T do it for you.
- J’adore/ J’abhor
  
  So, what's the hot topic currently creating emotional fracking by the office water cooler? This week - velcro sandals!

Beauty View more

- Muddy reviews Jen Adams’ Anti-Ageing Skin Rejuvenation Plan
  
  How to look ten years younger in 12-weeks? Jen Adams, who runs a natural anti-ageing skin clinic in Leamington Spa, has a plan and Muddy was a very willing recipient!
- Beauty bargains
  
  Quick, raid a teenage girl’s make-up bag! Budget beauty is big news right now. Here are some corkers that’ll only set you back a few quid.

Arts & Culture View more

Kenilworth Arts Fest

Our top picks among 10 days of amazing arts, one-off gigs, performance and spoken word in Warwickshire’s historic town of Kenilworth from Thurs Sept 19 to Sat Sep 28.
- Read THESE this month…
  
  Curl up into a comfy chair, pour a glass of wine, and dive into a new fab book with September's hottest new reads.
- Fight Club
  
  Love a good food fight? Well there's a huge one in the RSC's new autumn production King John. Just don't go in your best garb if you've booked a front row seat! Actor Richard Pryal fills us in.
- Everyone’s talking about…
  
  Jude Law! Or should that be his itty bitty papal white speedos which sent social media into meltdown?
- Muddy Book Club Live is BACK!
  
  We're hosting an author event at Henley Literary Festival on Sat 5 Oct and you're all invited! Want to meet our brilliant speakers? Plus our top 5 festival picks.

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Home View more

New season, new home!

Summer has gone. Deal with it. Embrace Autumn with these 6 breezily cool interior trends of rich colours, retro shapes and pared-back natural materials.
- Waitrose gin tasting? We’re in!
  
  Brand new, this service from Waitrose combines our favourite things - gin, friends and hanging out at home. See how Muddy's Ed-in-Chief, Hero Brown, got on and book up pronto this summer, it's a blast!
- Gotta Have It
  
  Planning a romantic weekender with no time to unpack (naughty!)? HeyChesto travel chests combine a romantic vintage style with modern practicality. Seriously, no more rummaging for knickers!
Wellbeing
- How to flex your life
  
  Is life an exhausting loop of sleep, work, chores, repeat? Yep. Need to make a change but now sure what or how? Er, yes. Read our interview with hot new self-help author Annie Auerbach. She has the answers!
- Run for the hills!
  
  Actually don't just yet - let me tell about these brilliantly inspiring running books first.

Work View more

Making work work for you

Back at your desk after summer fun and not really feeling it? We hear you. Here’s some food for thought from the autumn’s hottest self-help book by ex Elle journalist turned author Lotte Jeffs.
- Flexi-time – are you working it out?
  
  Flexible working is a buzzy phrase, but seriously - how many of us actually live the dream? Our ed-in-chief was at the launch of The Women’s Business Council's #100waystoworkflexibly project.
- Sexy Stationery
  
  Stationery is one of my specialist subjects. And - whoop! - it's National Stationery Week. Check out this sexy lot. Hubba bubba!
Kids
- Back-to-school essentials
  
  Holidays nearly over? Oh, what a *shame*! Sort your kids with our pick of everything they need for the new school term - and then it's a party round at mine.
- Spratton Hall, Northamptonshire
  
  Muddy says: Just across the border from us Spratton Hall is a beautiful co-educational day prep school for children aged 4-13, based in 50 acres of Northamptonshire’s, beautiful countryside.

People View more

Q&A with writer and performer Francesca Millican-Slater

Birmingham writer-performer Francesca Millican-Slater has been collecting the stories of visitors, past and present, to Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, the childhood home of William Shakespeare’s wife. You too can be part of the story.
- Everyone’s talking about… The Guilty Feminist
  
  Love the podcast? Good news - its creator is coming to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, this Friday (May 24). We grabbed super-talented comedian Deborah Francis-White for a chinwag.
- 8 Wedding Bouquet Trends
  
  Planning a wedding and curious about the latest bouquet and floral trends? We spoke to in-the-know Warwick florist Hannah Bosbury at Green and Wild.
- Muddy Meets Terry
  
  Eighties skankers The Specials are back with a brilliant new album, sell-out gigs and a headline slot at Cornbury festival. We nabbed Terry Hall to talk shopping, selfies and his career as a barber.
- Diary of a Showgirl
  
  Muddy meets Melissa James, who stars as sultry showgirl Dora Chance, in Emma Rice's racy, "life-enhancing" adaptation of Angela Carter's Wise Children.