Big in Japan
This month, Jamie Edney – who runs designer eyewear boutique Edney & Edney with his optometrist wife Ayshah on Monson Road – looks at how Japanese manufacturers have become industry leaders in the design and production of specialist spectacles and shades… Across many industries, the country of design and manufacture serves as a quality […]
A winning combination
Last month saw the launch of The Stables, an intimate fine dining experience created by the hugely talented chef Mark Charker from The Bell Inn at Ticehurst… Mark Charker’s vision is deliciously simple: to provide discerning diners with an exciting and unique five-course menu which takes their taste buds on a gastronomic journey. Mark […]
Natural selection… – Brian Lamb
This month Naomi Murray from Botanica Health in Rusthall invites her medical herbalist Brian Lamb to tell SO readers about natural ways to combat Post Viral Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Over the last 40 years my father has successfully treated many patients with Post Viral Fatigue. Historically, as he mentions below, it was rarely taken […]
Culture Hub – February 2023
Lilly Croucher’s edit of the month’s most entertaining and romantic events happening this February FUTURE SOUNDS STABLE SHOWCASE 2023 The Forum FEBRUARY 8, 13 & 20 The Forum is hosting three nights as part of its Stable Showcase spring session 2023. A host of up exciting bands and artists from across the South East […]
Recipe for alfresco success
Our gardening expert Tim Sykes of Gardenproud reveals the ways in which you can transform your humble garden into an alfresco foodies’ paradise for summer So you adore entertaining your friends and relatives and turn your hand to the odd barbecue? Well, maybe now’s the time to take things more seriously outdoors and revolutionise […]
“Us ghosts have been here longer than you”
The Mermaid Inn, in Rye is so much more than just an historic hotel as John Greenwood discovered on a recent visit… The last time I was at The Mermaid Inn in Rye was around five years ago, when four of us who’d formed a small drama group asked if we could perform our […]
Cold comfort
There’s nothing like a cosy pub to hunker down in during the winter – especially when it serves delicious, crowd-pleasing and award-winning food, as Victoria Roberts discovered when she shored up at the Blue Anchor in Crowborough… There are two ways into the Blue Anchor pub in Crowborough. You can come in past the […]
We’re here for you at your most vulnerable time”
Father and daughter, Simon and Rebecca Welham, co-run their family funeral business Welham Jones Funerals & Memorials which has just celebrated its 30th anniversary has a number of sites in the South East – including one in Tunbridge Wells since 2014. Here they tell Eileen Leahy why they believe they have such a unique approach […]
An illuminating idea for a business
Founder of Oast & Rye Philippa MacKinnon tells SO Magazine all about the gorgeous candle and scent business she founded four years ago and why she’s opened a beautiful new shop in Cranbrook in which to showcase them… So let’s start with you telling us about when and why Oast & Rye started? I […]
Happy Christmas to me!
This festive season, Karen Martin, a Hypnotherapist based at Salomons Estate, explains how the best present we can gift this Christmas is looking after ourselves by looking at the negative effects of self-sabotage and how to improve our self-esteem… One of the joys of the festive season is choosing carefully curated gifts for those […]
