Finnies launch exciting new partnership with Swiss made DOXA watches DOXA first started producing timepieces in 1889, in the small town of Le Locle, in the heart of the Jura Mountains, Switzerland’s cradle of watchmaking.  The name ‘DOXA’ is the Greek word for glory. Over time, it has come to signify the splendour of watches…

Meet Kirsty Pirie, Head Chef at Milton on the Corner I started out in my first kitchen when I was still at school, working as a kitchen porter. I loved the teamwork and enrolled in the Professional Cookery course at Aberdeen College, going on to get my HNC. During my first year at college, I…

Rest, restore and revive at Maison Baskerville Wellness Retreats Sisters Celeste Baskerville and Eve Elsby have joined together at Celeste’s delightful farmhouse in France’s Tarn et Garonne region. The wellness retreat offers yoga, pilates, aqua strength work and massage therapy with a focus on locally sourced food and wine, as well as a gin tasting…

The charms of Chapelton It’s not often that there’s a whole new town in our corner of the world, but Chapelton – or Chapelton of Elsick, to give it its full name, is just that.  The drive into Chapelton is visually pleasing. All the housing styles work together to create a distinctive style that’s reminiscent…

The best things in life are free It got us thinking that, particularly with the school holidays coming up, it’d be the ideaL time to explore what’s available in the city and shire that doesn’t cost anything.  There can be very few of us who aren’t aware of the escalating costs of, well, pretty much…