Pub Garden Weather - Bisley House Bar & Bistro

                                                           

                                                                   

                                                                  

                                                                        Krissy top & Emma top     

Appropriate clothing from work to the beer garden.. Summery drinks or irresistible barbecues, what ever the occasion we have some alfresco styles for your outing as seen here in our photos at Bisley House Bar & Bistro 

  

                                                                          Krissy top & Annie trouser

     



The menu offers more than pub grub! We'd even say it is more like gourmet dinning with seasonal herbs, vegetable; home grown in their own beer garden and local produce from the farmers market & local ice-cream parlours; a Cotswolds top visit by Gourmet guide  & Loving the Cotswolds

Not your average burgers, pies establishment,  with more ambitious dishes such as braised beef with pomme puree or for the veggie; sweet potato falafel with giant couscous, pickled cabbage, halloumi and tzatziki. The menu showcases tasty, rated 4 Michelin stars dishes. On the taps, the brews are well worth investigating, or if your a gin gal, we're sure we spotted a few old favourites!

Abbie dress

With a long hot summer, dresses, crop tops and jumpsuits are perfect weekend dressing. Whether you are meeting up with the girls, or off to an art gallery opening our silver Rosie dress or pink Alicia smock dress are ideal for weddings too. Flowy metallic fabrics that look right on trend with a unique quality that all Madia & Matilda designs come with. 

                                                                                           Alicia - Long Sleeve  smock dress &  Rosie - dress 

Art  - Donnelly Sisters

 Haroden Smock & Meg Loose fit dress

Basking in sunshine, styles for weddings and outdoor parties you have plotted in your diary, our outdoors selection include our Haroden Smock, Meg Loose fit dress, Iris dress & Jasmine Jumpsuit.

                                             Alicia Smock Dress,  Iris dress & Jasmine Jumpsuit.

                   Kate crop top & Gwen Jumpsuit Art Credits - Donnelly Sisters

In the pursuit for non-crowded beer garden and reliable sunscreen, the ultimate sunny-weather challenge. If the weather fine and as predicted, why not style up for the weekend! As seen here in gastro pub Bisley House with our Navy Gwen Jumpsuit & Kate Crop top with your best jeans and heels. 

Sincerely Madia & Matilda

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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

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