Things to do This Oct & Nov - Culture

Things to do in Gloucestershire

SVA, The Good Shed, Stroud
Live music performance from Emily Barker and special guest Jack Carty. Preforming songs from her latest album, Sweet Kind of Blue, a fusion of soul, blues, country and folk, Emily will be taking to the stage on Saturday 3rd November at 7:30pm. 
Click here to purchase tickets and find out more about the event.

Gloucester zombie walk 

Cafe Rene,  Southgate Street, Gloucester

Back by popular demand, the Gloucester zombie walk will return to the streets of Gloucester city centre. Free of charge, this years walk will be raising money for Sue Ryder Leckhampton Court Hospice. Join the scary stroll on Saturday 27th October, 3pm - 5pm.

For more information on this event, click here.

Stroud Farmers’ Market

Every Saturday 9 am-2 pm

Cornhill Market Place & Surrounding Streets, Stroud GL5 2HH                

Near Madia & Matilda HQ

Stroud Farmers’ Market is multi award-winning and is well known as one of the biggest, busiest and most popular farmers’ market in the UK. The market was awarded Best Farmers’ Market in the UK for 2013 for a second time by FARMA. At Stroud Farmers market there is streets lined with stalls, selling a range of fresh and local produce. From meats and charcuterie to fruit and vegetables, desserts, preserves and pickles to bread, cheese and plants.

You're sure to find a product you love at this market.

For more details, click here.

Cheltenham Literature Festival

109-111 Bath Road, Cheltenham GL53 7LS

Find a book you love at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, the world's oldest literature festival with over 500 events - Covering history, art, current affairs, sport, food and fashion, there's something for everyone's taste. World renowned this 10-day celebration is not one to miss!  Including  top icons, pop stars, extraordinary comedians, amazing actors. To visit & find out more, click here

Sincerely Madia & Matilda

Easter 2018: The Food Edit (No Chocolate Here!)

For all you peeps who like to do something special to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus/chocolate bunnies, this is for you! Of course, there's the good ol' Egg Hunt (who's dressing up as Mr Bunny this year?), a family walk, or church. Whatever Easter looks like for you, you can't beat a bite to eat with the Fam. We've got some ideas to kick things off. 

Places to Eat
The Cotswolds are famous for the broad range of places where you can get some truly amazing, locally produced food. Here are three of our favourites:

Lavendar Bakehouse is a little teashop and cafe in Chalford, just by the canal. They source their ingredients as locally as possible and you can taste the love they put into the food! This is a lovely place for brunch or cake, or both! 

Image courtesy of TripAdvisor

The Canteen is Nailsworth's quirky, yummy offering to the Cotswolds' food scene, drawing celebrity attention stars such as Liam Gallagher. The food is incredibly good and the cafe backs onto Domestic Science, a mini emporium supplying chic vintage homewares, quality office supplies and much more. 

Image courtesy of TripAdvisor

Wild Garlic is also based in Nailsworth (Naily's got it all, folks!). Jay Raynor is a big fan— need we say more? We will anyway. Chef Patron Matthew Beardshall handpicks local, seasonal ingredients with which to create his dishes. And did we mention the "locally sourced traditional roast" on the Sunday lunch menu?! (Psst! Booking recommended).

Image courtesy of TripAdvisor

If 'forking' out for a full meal isn't for you, you could ask everyone to make their favourite dish (assign some people to sweet, some to savoury, some to drinks etc.) and put on a bring and share. Something a bit different, and if you find dates like Easter stressful, 
it should take the edge off! 

Whatever you're doing on the Easter weekend, we hope you have the loveliest, yummiest time! (And good luck with the rest of Lent!)

Sincerely, Madia & Matilda

Cheltenham

It's the home of world-famous horse racing tracks, a well-established Fashion Week, a superb Fashion Academy, and the Food and Drink Festival. There is just so much to do in Cheltenham, and it doesn't stop there! Cheltenham Literature Festival is opening soon and will be running from the 6th to the 15th of October. Cheltenham has something for everyone, whether you're a foodie, a book lover, a trendsetter, or a mixture of all three.

http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/

Madia & Matilda visit Cheltenham often enough to be able to confidently recommend some great spots, for example Huffkins, a contemporary "Bakery and Tearoom" with a relaxed atmosphere. Another place well worth a visit would be All Bar One, a tasteful pre-drinks venue also offering delicious bites to eat.

Cavendish House for a spot of retail therapy. 

For anybody into sewing, Cheltenham’s World of Fabrics is an Aladdin's cave of sartorial possibility.

World Of Fabrics, 28 Albion Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL52 2LP, United Kingdom

Wholefoods is situated in the heart of the Cotswolds on the Gallagher Retail Park, this store offers a vast range of high quality natural foods, as well as beauty and health products

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/cheltenham

http://www.bostonteaparty.co.uk/

Great scenic views, a thriving shopping centre, the lido and some of the most tasteful restaurants and cafes and also only a stones throw away from Madia & Matilda.  http://www.madiamatilda.co.uk/

 Sincerely Madia & Matilda

Culture - Cheltenham Literature Festival - Vivienne Westwood Climate Change

                                                 

Vivienne Westwood is a woman who was the queen of the Punk generation has now become the Dame of climate revolution. Using her fame to advocate her strong beliefs on sustainability, she was interviewed by Kirsty Wark at the Cheltenham Literature Festival about her new book ‘Get a Life’.

At Madia and Matilda we are all about sustainability so had grab a few seats when we heard about her arrival in Cheltenham. Listening to Vivienne Westwood’s passion on the topic was incredibly refreshing and to hear the words ‘green’ and ‘recycling’ in such a throw away industry motivated us to continue sharing the love for our planet. The main focus of the talk was centred around this map below.     

She stressed that when the world reaches +5 degrees if you were you draw a line under Paris everything below it would be uninhabitable. Most importantly, when it reaches +2 degrees, it is unstoppable and that we must lobby the politicians to push for a greener environment and economy.

Unfortunately, no photography was allowed during the event but here are a few snaps from the Waterstones book tent and around the festival site! 

What We're Reading

A few of our favourite fashion reads 

Loita, Great Gatsby, Me before you

& these titles below

Visting Cheltenham

Some places to check out, in the spa town of Cheltenham and the surrounding areas, 

whether your in town for a spot of shopping or grabbing 

a quick bite in the afternoon

From top to bottom: Cavendish House house of Fraser, Madia & Matilda Independent clothing brand,

 Huffkins Tea rooms

Sincerely Madia & Matilda

Culture - Cheltenham Food Festival

Madia & Matilda have been anticipating Cheltenham's food festival as one of the perks of living in the Cotswolds, for a long long time. Part of our reason for Madia & Matilda to be going along, apart from eating all the yummy food!  Is to check up on our lovely target market of Cheltenham, seeing what our local customers are interested in, looking for and wearing. to absorb yourself in local events we see this to be very important. To understand our customers and get to know them.

A festival for the submersion of the senses. white tents decked with decadence to sample as you please, floury puffs in the bakery tents dusted with icing sugar and coco powder still peppering the air. while just across the stall oily and thick with an array of cheeses stacked up in pillars, fresh to cut and serve.

                                             Sincerely Madia & Matilda