When the going gets tough, grow your own vegetables. Waiting lists for allotments across the UK now exceed 100,000! It seems there is an enduring allure to going through the process of digging, planting, growing and harvesting your own vegetables. It is local, organic, and if everyone I know who has an allotment is to be [...]

The Editor of France Magazine  Carolyn Boyd had a piece in the Times this weekend on how, contrary to popular opinion at the moment, France is still great value for money when it comes to dining out despite ‘Le Crunch’. Restaurants across the country are offering ‘anti-crise’ menus for as little as 3.50 euros for lunch. [...]

In a flashback to flat-sharing days when you had to share fridge space with people who always seemed to be hungrier and more light-fingered than you, the Headwater kitchen has become the latest venue for an in – house food spat.  There’s only one way to react to communal fridge disappearances, and that’s to go [...]

We’ve all been there. You’re all comfy, working or relaxing – either way you’re in the middle of something – and you really fancy a hot drink. How on earth can you get hold of one without having to make any effort yourself? With no set rota, (far too rigid an approach), on the Headwater [...]