Spend three nights at this luxury cottage in Snowdonia This month The Simple Things has teamed up with luxury holiday company Sheepskin to offer you a chance to spend three nights in this cosy, traditional farmhouse with a modern twist. Standing alone in a peaceful valley, Cappele Cottage near Corwen, Snowdonia effortlessly mixes contemporary [...]
You’ll notice we’re in rather a romantic mood in the next issue of The Simple Things (Issue 20, on sale 31st January). In the wonderfully nostalgic The Lost Art of Writing a Love Letter we uncover the principles of penning the perfect love note. A few lines from a beautiful poem can capture a feeling [...]
IF YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF Do Lectures you’re missing out on free talks on big ideas and clever thinking from very bright people. Think Tim Smit of the Eden project, the chief of the Sioux nation, the man who reinvented meditation for modern living and the woman who directed Pixar’s Brave. For starters. You can [...]
In the new issue (on sale 30 January), our adventurous River Cottage chef Gill Meller wraps up warm and prepares fire-roast leg of lamb. But first you need your fire – and something to roast it on. Gill used an old estate railing he found but for those of us not so lucky, click [...]
