The Secret of the Maids of Honour Tarts

Maids of Honour

Like the Bakewell Tart or Eccles Cake, Richmond has its historical food fair. Taking its name not from the town itself but a landmark row of houses. Maids of Honour tarts have been sold in Richmond for at least two hundred and fifty years but you will only find these unique pastries at – Newen’s […]

Virginia Woolf

Alison Headley original linocut

 “I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.” ― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out I have in the past completely identified with this quote from Virginia Woolf’s first novel The Voyage Out which was completed in 1913. Today those words take […]