Last Friday morning I had the pleasure of attending the RHS Business Breakfast to celebrate the launch of their new RHS Business Directory. It was a warm and welcoming event that brought together local businesses and members of the wider RHS community. As the founder of Beautiful Benevolence, much of my work takes place quietly […]
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February arrives without fuss. It doesn’t demand attention the way December does, or arrive bursting with ambition like January. Instead, it slips in softly, the shortest month of the year, and the last true stretch of winter. The world is still resting. The mornings are still dark. The trees are still bare. And yet, there
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January has a habit of arriving with lists.Resolutions, promises, reinventions. I prefer to think of them as aspirations, gentle intentions rather than rules to be broken by February. Last year, mine were simple: I’m pleased (and quietly proud) to report that the water aspiration was a resounding success. Exercise, however, has politely carried itself over
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The other day I was driving, listening to episode 240 of the Wardrobe Crisis podcast (one of my favourite sustainable fashion deep dives). In this episode Clare Press was interviewing Rachel and Jesse from Kooshoo a sustainable hair accessory brand based on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. At one point, Jesse said something that completely made me pull over and double-check it: “we
You know those mornings when you open your wardrobe and feel… tired? Not physically, but emotionally, as though every hanger is asking you a question you don’t have the energy to answer. Will this still fit?Is this still me?Why did I buy this again? It’s not that you don’t care about style. You do, deeply;
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For many, January arrives heavy with expectations, long, grey days, bare trees and the quiet comedown after the glitter of December. It can feel like a month to get through rather than lean into. But I’ve always found a different rhythm here. To me, January isn’t something to dread. It’s a new beginning. A gentle
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When we started Beautiful Bandanas Liz and I wanted to not only produce beautiful, practical products that would would be a pleasure for anyone to wear but we really wanted to design and make a product that would help patients undergoing chemotherapy treatment. We also made to the decision to help Macmillan Cancer Support by
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Welcome to our Journal. We are Cathy and Liz and this is our blog not only about all things Beautiful Benevolence, but also things that are important to us like making people happy and the environment; we’ll even throw in some tutorials and the odd recipe. So thank you for visiting us and for joining
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