Autumn and winter are my favourite seasons to dress for. I love big coats, leather boots, buttery soft scarves, cashmere, lambswool, thick socks, oversized jumpers... it's all so deliciously cosy . I feel my most confident this time of year when it comes to dressin…

Part 4 of building an interior design scheme based around a painting!  Today's scheme is based on Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme . This powerful and dramatic painting depicts the Vestals (priestesses of Vesta in Ancient Rome) alongside other spectators giving …

The fifth instalment of 'Five nice things' has arrived. See the previous one here . In the Garden: Essays on Nature and Growing  by Various , £9.99. Over half way through this lovely book of essays published by Daunt Books Publishing.  In the Garden brings tog…