Sometimes, on a cold Saturday evening with the fire blazing and your kids behaving for once, it can feel like an effort to remove one’s bum from the sofa. The Pegasus Theatre off the Iffley Road in Oxford is about …

I missed Northern Ballet’s Beauty and the Beast on Tuesday but finally managed to see it tonight. My initial thought was that I’d probably just tweet a few sentences about it,  but honestly it was so great  it deserves to …

• Muddy Stilettos meets… The Dreamboys!!!!
• The Muddy Guide 5 – 11 November

I already had a weakness for the genteel Buckinghamshire town of Amersham, but after eating at Artichoke I feel a full blown obsession coming on. Artichoke is the kind of restaurant that I wish to high hell I had in …

Stomp has been around for 20 years now, but I have to admit that I’ve never managed to get excited about watching people banging a load of dustbin lids together. It’s a bit, you know, noisy. Recently though I’d seen Stomp at …

• Gee’s restaurant, Oxford
• REVIEW: The ‘Joseph’ UK tour at Aylesbury Waterside
• Fit for a king
• Dolly birds

Usually when I write something in Muddy Stilettos it’s because it’s really standout or quirky, or different. I’m not quite sure I put The Pointer in Brill in any of those categories, and yet in an area that is kind …

• Real help with real cooking
• The cool coffee connoisseurs
• OK, bring out the big guns, it’s PT time
• Drinking tea and eating cake for charity? Oh go on then!

You probably saw the film, way back in the day (2001 fact fans). You may have seen the musical in London. You’ll know it won Best Musical in 2011, and that Sheridan Smith nabbed Best Musical Actress at the Olivier awards. …

• Gee’s restaurant, Oxford
• REVIEW: The ‘Joseph’ UK tour at Aylesbury Waterside
• Fit for a king
• Dolly birds

This is a quickie, really in pictures, just to show you how fab Gifford’s Circus was. Such brilliant fun for whole families – we loved it as much as our kids. Tight rope walkers, dog handlers, a fantastic clown (and …

• The cool coffee connoisseurs
• Gee’s restaurant, Oxford
• REVIEW: The ‘Joseph’ UK tour at Aylesbury Waterside
• Fit for a king

Another day, another restaurant! I’ll end up rolling around the county if I carry on like this. I mentioned The Nut Tree in Murcott in a round-up of the best eateries in the area back in December (see it here), with the caveat …

• Gee’s restaurant, Oxford
• REVIEW: The ‘Joseph’ UK tour at Aylesbury Waterside
• Shazia Murza
• Fit for a king

Even with a rumbling hangover that has become more menacing every day over half term, I still really enjoyed Benjamin Grosvenor playing Grieg’s romantic Piano Concerto in A Minor at the Aylesbury Waterside last night. The first thing I should …

• The Muddy Guide
• REVIEW: The ‘Joseph’ UK tour at Aylesbury Waterside
• REVIEW: The 39 Steps, Aylesbury Waterside
• Review: Maurice’s Jubilee at the Aylesbury Waterside