Jo Fairley

GREEN & BLACK’S CO-FOUNDER, SPEAKER AND LEADING ENTREPRENEUR

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Jo Fairley writes regularly for Telegraph Online, among her media portfolio. Here are some of the articles she's written about women and business and/or entrepreneurialism, appearing under the ‘Wonder Women’ experts section. Simply click on the article title below to read. Others can be sourced at the Telegraph.   

Why you should think about women's achievements today (your own included)

Construction needs to ditch its macho image and nail the gender imbalance fast

Women do need to man-up and stop using the word 'just'

High-achieving women have these 6 personality traits. Do you?

Mark Zuckerberg is right - personal goals are great. So what should you be striving for?

My Bizhub: Inspiring Entrepreneurs: an interview with Green & Black’s co-founder Jo Fairley

Digital detox baths: are we finally ready to be cleansed of our tech addiction?

How to have a sense of humour in the office (even when everything's gone wrong)
 

TWITTER

  • Josephine Fairley
    RT @jonathonporritt: #10YearsOn from the financial crisis, be part of a better banking story - one where money is used to deliver positi… https://t.co/Js1GZbIHQm
    about 3 days ago
  • Josephine Fairley
    So looking forward to this - and the ‘What would Jo Fairley do?’ Biz workshop #telfordhereicome https://t.co/upp8SJf5Bw
    about 4 days ago

INSTAGRAM

#weareallhumanity - this is an initiative marking the debut issue of HUMANITY magazine for which the wonderful and inspiring photographer @gilesduley (one of Hastings’s own) has taken a fantastic series of photos of women in the Congo... To quote @citizensofhumanity ’We are proud to be partnering with USA for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping refugees survive, recover and build a better future. When you join the #WeAreHumanity global movement, Citizens will donate *$10 to USA for UNHCR. *Donations will be made for the first 10,000 posts.’ Just visit their website, create and post your image using the HUMANITY filter and raise $10. It’s that easy... Supporters of this project also include @maisonladuree @10corsocomo @natgeo @sohohouse @theofficialselfridges and more (oh, and many of my lovely friends)
#weareallhumanity - this is an initiative marking the debut issue of HUMANITY magazine for which the wonderful and inspiring photographer @gilesduley (one of Hastings’s own) has taken a fantastic series of photos of women in the Congo... To quote @citizensofhumanity ’We are proud to be partnering with USA for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping refugees survive, recover and build a better future. When you join the #WeAreHumanity global movement, Citizens will donate *$10 to USA for UNHCR. *Donations will be made for the first 10,000 posts.’ Just visit their website, create and post your image using the HUMANITY filter and raise $10. It’s that easy... Supporters of this project also include @maisonladuree @10corsocomo @natgeo @sohohouse @theofficialselfridges and more (oh, and many of my lovely friends)
@lolasams showed early artistic promise with her picture of me (think she was eight), capturing some of my favourite things - #chocolate #knitting #rabbits #pink (and not a bad likeness!) #artygenes #lovethatgirl
@lolasams showed early artistic promise with her picture of me (think she was eight), capturing some of my favourite things - #chocolate #knitting #rabbits #pink (and not a bad likeness!) #artygenes #lovethatgirl
It’s a #flute shop! Fabulously creative way to sell a musical instrument #paperflowers
It’s a #flute shop! Fabulously creative way to sell a musical instrument #paperflowers
My kinda #glut #nofilter #i❤️tomatoes #inmygarden (this one’s for @her_dark_materials 🍅)
My kinda #glut #nofilter #i❤️tomatoes #inmygarden (this one’s for @her_dark_materials 🍅)
#nofilter - just loved the silver horizon and moody sky yesterday #sundaywalk #10000steps
#nofilter - just loved the silver horizon and moody sky yesterday #sundaywalk #10000steps
SWIPE The weather I ordered for lunch yesterday was delivered - another sunny Saturday feast in the garden with our cucumbers, lettuces, raspberries & tomatoes... Thanks for coming @mitzilorenz (welcome to da hood!), @julietnicolson1 and Charlie, @qandastudio @theenduringgardener and Andrew @venetianevill @darkyab @mirandainnes @macbethme & Eoghan #funfunfun #lastofthesummerwine (from the wonderful @fattorialavialla and of course @gustoorganic for the non-drinkers) PS Sorry to miss your show @jasperconran x
SWIPE The weather I ordered for lunch yesterday was delivered - another sunny Saturday feast in the garden with our cucumbers, lettuces, raspberries & tomatoes... Thanks for coming @mitzilorenz (welcome to da hood!), @julietnicolson1 and Charlie, @qandastudio @theenduringgardener and Andrew @venetianevill @darkyab @mirandainnes @macbethme & Eoghan #funfunfun #lastofthesummerwine (from the wonderful @fattorialavialla and of course @gustoorganic for the non-drinkers) PS Sorry to miss your show @jasperconran x
I just had to stop these two on #hastingsseafront and ask to take their photo. Such dandies! ‘Where are you going?’ I asked (thinking there must be a vintage fair I didn’t know about). ‘We’ve come to buy a house!’, they said excitedly. And they’re gonna it right in... #hastingsrocks
I just had to stop these two on #hastingsseafront and ask to take their photo. Such dandies! ‘Where are you going?’ I asked (thinking there must be a vintage fair I didn’t know about). ‘We’ve come to buy a house!’, they said excitedly. And they’re gonna it right in... #hastingsrocks
The art of gardening - so they say - is ‘right plant, right place’. I love this big old urn (which weighs about six tons, or so it feels, and is some kind of composite fake that I got secondhand), but everything I’ve ever planted in it has struggled - till now. Trachelospermum jasminoides - star jasmine - is super-happy. And therefore, so am I... #inmygarden
The art of gardening - so they say - is ‘right plant, right place’. I love this big old urn (which weighs about six tons, or so it feels, and is some kind of composite fake that I got secondhand), but everything I’ve ever planted in it has struggled - till now. Trachelospermum jasminoides - star jasmine - is super-happy. And therefore, so am I... #inmygarden
Sustainability is a journey that begins with a single step. It’s a long and difficult road, but I couldn’t be more pleased to see the beauty and fashion worlds embracing the values which were embedded in @greenandblacks from the start, and are now rippling out to the rest of the food world, too. (I don’t even care initially if companies go down this route for cynical reasons, because they feel they have to - the result is the same, and it changes the DNA of that company as the team engages with the plan...) Few people know more about that journey than @liviafirth - the woman who first brought sustainability to the #redcarpet and whose @ecoage consultancy is now rushed off its feet... Lovely to catch up with her @annabelsmayfair last night (that’s a whole story in itself, to come!) at the launch of the glorious (so my skin is telling me this morning) @luciamagnaniskincare - Livia and her brother/biz partner @mreco81 will now be working with Lucia, whose Long Life Clinic in Italy is now top of my #bucketlist - to follow a path towards sustainable luxury. It’s got to happen. I remember an @soilassociation panel years ago with the amazing environmentalist #vandanashiva when she was asked: ‘Is it too late to save the planet?’ She nodded her head sagely and said, ‘The planet will be fine without us...’ And it will unless we ALL work towards treading more lightly on the planet - which means treasuring our old clothes and buying fewer and better new ones (as Livia’s Italian mamma taught her from a young age), supporting brands that are on a sustainability journey, walking not driving, avoiding plastic-packaged food where we can, buying organic... It can be done. It’s GOT to be done... #ecoliving #changingtheworld 💚
Sustainability is a journey that begins with a single step. It’s a long and difficult road, but I couldn’t be more pleased to see the beauty and fashion worlds embracing the values which were embedded in @greenandblacks from the start, and are now rippling out to the rest of the food world, too. (I don’t even care initially if companies go down this route for cynical reasons, because they feel they have to - the result is the same, and it changes the DNA of that company as the team engages with the plan...) Few people know more about that journey than @liviafirth - the woman who first brought sustainability to the #redcarpet and whose @ecoage consultancy is now rushed off its feet... Lovely to catch up with her @annabelsmayfair last night (that’s a whole story in itself, to come!) at the launch of the glorious (so my skin is telling me this morning) @luciamagnaniskincare - Livia and her brother/biz partner @mreco81 will now be working with Lucia, whose Long Life Clinic in Italy is now top of my #bucketlist - to follow a path towards sustainable luxury. It’s got to happen. I remember an @soilassociation panel years ago with the amazing environmentalist #vandanashiva when she was asked: ‘Is it too late to save the planet?’ She nodded her head sagely and said, ‘The planet will be fine without us...’ And it will unless we ALL work towards treading more lightly on the planet - which means treasuring our old clothes and buying fewer and better new ones (as Livia’s Italian mamma taught her from a young age), supporting brands that are on a sustainability journey, walking not driving, avoiding plastic-packaged food where we can, buying organic... It can be done. It’s GOT to be done... #ecoliving #changingtheworld 💚
Wonder how many days we’ll still be able to have the back door open? Making the most of every last one... #summersleasehathalltooshortadate
Wonder how many days we’ll still be able to have the back door open? Making the most of every last one... #summersleasehathalltooshortadate
The sea is still irresistibly warm... #hastings #wildswimming #mykindalunchbreak
The sea is still irresistibly warm... #hastings #wildswimming #mykindalunchbreak
SWIPE! Second day of Costal Currents studio visits, highlight of which was a trip to @inkylinda who is one of the most original people I’ve ever met. I first knew her when she had a great shop in #hastings called Fab & Groovy over which she presided wearing unique and beautiful eye make-up that included painting a second pair of eyes on her eyebrows (never knew quite where to look). Since then I’ve delightedly acquired various fantastical, intricately painted creations of Linda’s ranging from a batik shirt commissioned for Craig’s 50th (featuring Hastings fishing beach) through to a glass lighthouse painting for a doorway - and now one of her ‘hands’... Linda’s work taps into her Romany heritage, folk art, symbolism, #taxidermy #magic #skulls and more, and she’s her own walking artwork. (This is a parrot HAT!!! And check out the jacket!) And then there was that time we wrestled a sheep out of the hallway @thebeacon_hastings with Linda wearing her horse costume, which you can see in the last photo... It’s people like Linda that help make this the best place in the world I can imagine living... #atownofartists #neverwithoutart #coastalcurrents2018 #baaaaaa
SWIPE! Second day of Costal Currents studio visits, highlight of which was a trip to @inkylinda who is one of the most original people I’ve ever met. I first knew her when she had a great shop in #hastings called Fab & Groovy over which she presided wearing unique and beautiful eye make-up that included painting a second pair of eyes on her eyebrows (never knew quite where to look). Since then I’ve delightedly acquired various fantastical, intricately painted creations of Linda’s ranging from a batik shirt commissioned for Craig’s 50th (featuring Hastings fishing beach) through to a glass lighthouse painting for a doorway - and now one of her ‘hands’... Linda’s work taps into her Romany heritage, folk art, symbolism, #taxidermy #magic #skulls and more, and she’s her own walking artwork. (This is a parrot HAT!!! And check out the jacket!) And then there was that time we wrestled a sheep out of the hallway @thebeacon_hastings with Linda wearing her horse costume, which you can see in the last photo... It’s people like Linda that help make this the best place in the world I can imagine living... #atownofartists #neverwithoutart #coastalcurrents2018 #baaaaaa
Such a lovely day yesterday wallowing in #art and visiting artists’s open studios yesterday with @maggiealderson , as part of #coastalcurrents2018 (it just gets better every year). Fascinating to see how different artists and sculptors work (lots more if you SWIPE) - my favourite was the layer upon layer of blue and viridian paints in #nicksnelling studio at #thelawn - and the gilded ceramic jellyfish lights nearby Last day today. (see ya later @inkylinda !). Go if you can! Info at coastalcurrents.org.uk #atownofartists #neverwithoutart
Such a lovely day yesterday wallowing in #art and visiting artists’s open studios yesterday with @maggiealderson , as part of #coastalcurrents2018 (it just gets better every year). Fascinating to see how different artists and sculptors work (lots more if you SWIPE) - my favourite was the layer upon layer of blue and viridian paints in #nicksnelling studio at #thelawn - and the gilded ceramic jellyfish lights nearby Last day today. (see ya later @inkylinda !). Go if you can! Info at coastalcurrents.org.uk #atownofartists #neverwithoutart
Imagine living in this Hansel & Gretel cottage right in the middle of St. James’s Park... Never noticed it before (took a new route through the park walking to Victoria). Gorgeous veg in the garden, flamingos and wildfowl almost on the doorstep... It’s apparently known as Duck Island Cottage and once had its own governor, in the time of Charles II. Fascinating history here (though you’ll have to cut & paste as #Insta won’t link). Who knew there were once two #crocodiles in the Park...???? http://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/dicframe.htm #parklife #10000steps
Imagine living in this Hansel & Gretel cottage right in the middle of St. James’s Park... Never noticed it before (took a new route through the park walking to Victoria). Gorgeous veg in the garden, flamingos and wildfowl almost on the doorstep... It’s apparently known as Duck Island Cottage and once had its own governor, in the time of Charles II. Fascinating history here (though you’ll have to cut & paste as #Insta won’t link). Who knew there were once two #crocodiles in the Park...???? http://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/dicframe.htm #parklife #10000steps
Have been writing Beauty Bible books and editing a website with this lovely person @sarahamstacey for (gosh!) 22 years. Had a little photo shoot in #mountstreetgardens yesterday and I think she is looking very fabulous... The best health writer out there - and her wisdom is always to be found at our website www.beautybible.com @beautybibleofficial - plus I think we might be seeing a bit more of her on #insta too. Celebrating 22 years of laughs, hard work, cake, tiaras, book tours (‘if it’s Wednesday it must be Leeds’) and friendship 💕
Have been writing Beauty Bible books and editing a website with this lovely person @sarahamstacey for (gosh!) 22 years. Had a little photo shoot in #mountstreetgardens yesterday and I think she is looking very fabulous... The best health writer out there - and her wisdom is always to be found at our website www.beautybible.com @beautybibleofficial - plus I think we might be seeing a bit more of her on #insta too. Celebrating 22 years of laughs, hard work, cake, tiaras, book tours (‘if it’s Wednesday it must be Leeds’) and friendship 💕
Pup ‘paw-traits’ being done @fishseddynyc - loved these! #dogart #dogartist
Pup ‘paw-traits’ being done @fishseddynyc - loved these! #dogart #dogartist
Danger, danger, warning, warning! My advice is to stay well away from the curly-topped pastry centre and right - a kind of super-sticky croissant laced with black sesame... Apparently called a ‘kouign amman’ (from @patisseriechanson on 23rd Street NYC) - I’m really glad I’m now on the other side of the Atlantic to these babies... #outrageouslydelicious #kouignamann
Danger, danger, warning, warning! My advice is to stay well away from the curly-topped pastry centre and right - a kind of super-sticky croissant laced with black sesame... Apparently called a ‘kouign amman’ (from @patisseriechanson on 23rd Street NYC) - I’m really glad I’m now on the other side of the Atlantic to these babies... #outrageouslydelicious #kouignamann
SWIPE! So we went to #niagarafalls - a half-hour drive from the wedding location for cousin #matthewdoxtad - and it was WAY more breathtaking and impressive and bloody awe-inspiring than we could ever have imagined... And not cheesy, as I’d expected it to be. Just flipping epic! And because it was sunny, gorgeous #rainbows everywhere... But here’s the thing - most people get out of their cars and wander to the first viewing platform. But if you cross to the second and third islands on foot, there’s almost nobody there. Just wilderness, with these giant rapids thundering past. We walked a woodland trail so undisturbed that it was barely a visible path - just yards away from one of the world’s greatest tourist attractions (deservedly so). And although there are lots of paid-for ‘experiences’ on offer, it’s completely free. A National Park. Just #blownaway (and so not expecting to be!)
SWIPE! So we went to #niagarafalls - a half-hour drive from the wedding location for cousin #matthewdoxtad - and it was WAY more breathtaking and impressive and bloody awe-inspiring than we could ever have imagined... And not cheesy, as I’d expected it to be. Just flipping epic! And because it was sunny, gorgeous #rainbows everywhere... But here’s the thing - most people get out of their cars and wander to the first viewing platform. But if you cross to the second and third islands on foot, there’s almost nobody there. Just wilderness, with these giant rapids thundering past. We walked a woodland trail so undisturbed that it was barely a visible path - just yards away from one of the world’s greatest tourist attractions (deservedly so). And although there are lots of paid-for ‘experiences’ on offer, it’s completely free. A National Park. Just #blownaway (and so not expecting to be!)
SWIPE FOR HAPPINESS! Just the loveliest #familywedding for our cousin #matthewdoxtad & his wonderful #bride @meagancwalker in Buffalo, NY. So good to see @ddoxtad @emilylouisevollmar @jdoxtad @jamesdoxtad and the Doxtad boys, the Ronnfeldt cousins and share Matt & Meagan’s highly original and special day. Ridiculously good-looking (and laugh-out-loud funny) family and so heavenly to meet a new and enchanting bunch of little cousins.#wearefamily #cousinsrock #happydays
SWIPE FOR HAPPINESS! Just the loveliest #familywedding for our cousin #matthewdoxtad & his wonderful #bride @meagancwalker in Buffalo, NY. So good to see @ddoxtad @emilylouisevollmar @jdoxtad @jamesdoxtad and the Doxtad boys, the Ronnfeldt cousins and share Matt & Meagan’s highly original and special day. Ridiculously good-looking (and laugh-out-loud funny) family and so heavenly to meet a new and enchanting bunch of little cousins.#wearefamily #cousinsrock #happydays
I can’t make out if @craigsams is being romantic with these early-morning veg harvest arrangements or doing it for his own amusement.... Anyway, we’re just about keeping up with the continuing bounty... #veggiesrock #1001wayswithzucchini #courgettes #cucumbers (wow, quite something when you discover there are more than half a million posts tagged ‘cucumbers’! Clearly ours isn’t the only glut)
I can’t make out if @craigsams is being romantic with these early-morning veg harvest arrangements or doing it for his own amusement.... Anyway, we’re just about keeping up with the continuing bounty... #veggiesrock #1001wayswithzucchini #courgettes #cucumbers (wow, quite something when you discover there are more than half a million posts tagged ‘cucumbers’! Clearly ours isn’t the only glut)
#weareallhumanity - this is an initiative marking the debut issue of HUMANITY magazine for which the wonderful and inspiring photographer @gilesduley (one of Hastings’s own) has taken a fantastic series of photos of women in the Congo... To quote @citizensofhumanity ’We are proud to be partnering with USA for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping refugees survive, recover and build a better future. When you join the #WeAreHumanity global movement, Citizens will donate *$10 to USA for UNHCR. *Donations will be made for the first 10,000 posts.’ Just visit their website, create and post your image using the HUMANITY filter and raise $10. It’s that easy... Supporters of this project also include @maisonladuree @10corsocomo @natgeo @sohohouse @theofficialselfridges and more (oh, and many of my lovely friends) @lolasams showed early artistic promise with her picture of me (think she was eight), capturing some of my favourite things - #chocolate #knitting #rabbits #pink (and not a bad likeness!) #artygenes #lovethatgirl It’s a #flute shop! Fabulously creative way to sell a musical instrument #paperflowers My kinda #glut #nofilter #i❤️tomatoes #inmygarden (this one’s for @her_dark_materials 🍅) #nofilter - just loved the silver horizon and moody sky yesterday #sundaywalk #10000steps SWIPE The weather I ordered for lunch yesterday was delivered - another sunny Saturday feast in the garden with our cucumbers, lettuces, raspberries & tomatoes... Thanks for coming @mitzilorenz (welcome to da hood!), @julietnicolson1 and Charlie, @qandastudio @theenduringgardener and Andrew @venetianevill @darkyab @mirandainnes @macbethme & Eoghan #funfunfun #lastofthesummerwine (from the wonderful @fattorialavialla and of course @gustoorganic for the non-drinkers) PS Sorry to miss your show @jasperconran x I just had to stop these two on #hastingsseafront and ask to take their photo. Such dandies! ‘Where are you going?’ I asked (thinking there must be a vintage fair I didn’t know about). ‘We’ve come to buy a house!’, they said excitedly. And they’re gonna it right in... #hastingsrocks The art of gardening - so they say - is ‘right plant, right place’. I love this big old urn (which weighs about six tons, or so it feels, and is some kind of composite fake that I got secondhand), but everything I’ve ever planted in it has struggled - till now. Trachelospermum jasminoides - star jasmine - is super-happy. And therefore, so am I... #inmygarden Sustainability is a journey that begins with a single step. It’s a long and difficult road, but I couldn’t be more pleased to see the beauty and fashion worlds embracing the values which were embedded in @greenandblacks from the start, and are now rippling out to the rest of the food world, too. (I don’t even care initially if companies go down this route for cynical reasons, because they feel they have to - the result is the same, and it changes the DNA of that company as the team engages with the plan...) Few people know more about that journey than @liviafirth - the woman who first brought sustainability to the #redcarpet and whose @ecoage consultancy is now rushed off its feet... Lovely to catch up with her @annabelsmayfair last night (that’s a whole story in itself, to come!) at the launch of the glorious (so my skin is telling me this morning) @luciamagnaniskincare - Livia and her brother/biz partner @mreco81 will now be working with Lucia, whose Long Life Clinic in Italy is now top of my #bucketlist - to follow a path towards sustainable luxury. It’s got to happen. I remember an @soilassociation panel years ago with the amazing environmentalist #vandanashiva when she was asked: ‘Is it too late to save the planet?’ She nodded her head sagely and said, ‘The planet will be fine without us...’ And it will unless we ALL work towards treading more lightly on the planet - which means treasuring our old clothes and buying fewer and better new ones (as Livia’s Italian mamma taught her from a young age), supporting brands that are on a sustainability journey, walking not driving, avoiding plastic-packaged food where we can, buying organic... It can be done. It’s GOT to be done... #ecoliving #changingtheworld 💚 Wonder how many days we’ll still be able to have the back door open? Making the most of every last one... #summersleasehathalltooshortadate The sea is still irresistibly warm... #hastings #wildswimming #mykindalunchbreak SWIPE! Second day of Costal Currents studio visits, highlight of which was a trip to @inkylinda who is one of the most original people I’ve ever met. I first knew her when she had a great shop in #hastings called Fab & Groovy over which she presided wearing unique and beautiful eye make-up that included painting a second pair of eyes on her eyebrows (never knew quite where to look). Since then I’ve delightedly acquired various fantastical, intricately painted creations of Linda’s ranging from a batik shirt commissioned for Craig’s 50th (featuring Hastings fishing beach) through to a glass lighthouse painting for a doorway - and now one of her ‘hands’... Linda’s work taps into her Romany heritage, folk art, symbolism, #taxidermy #magic #skulls and more, and she’s her own walking artwork. (This is a parrot HAT!!! And check out the jacket!) And then there was that time we wrestled a sheep out of the hallway @thebeacon_hastings with Linda wearing her horse costume, which you can see in the last photo... It’s people like Linda that help make this the best place in the world I can imagine living... #atownofartists #neverwithoutart #coastalcurrents2018 #baaaaaa Such a lovely day yesterday wallowing in #art and visiting artists’s open studios yesterday with @maggiealderson , as part of #coastalcurrents2018 (it just gets better every year). Fascinating to see how different artists and sculptors work (lots more if you SWIPE) - my favourite was the layer upon layer of blue and viridian paints in #nicksnelling studio at #thelawn - and the gilded ceramic jellyfish lights nearby Last day today. (see ya later @inkylinda !). Go if you can! Info at coastalcurrents.org.uk #atownofartists #neverwithoutart Imagine living in this Hansel & Gretel cottage right in the middle of St. James’s Park... Never noticed it before (took a new route through the park walking to Victoria). Gorgeous veg in the garden, flamingos and wildfowl almost on the doorstep... It’s apparently known as Duck Island Cottage and once had its own governor, in the time of Charles II. Fascinating history here (though you’ll have to cut & paste as #Insta won’t link). Who knew there were once two #crocodiles in the Park...???? http://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/dicframe.htm #parklife #10000steps Have been writing Beauty Bible books and editing a website with this lovely person @sarahamstacey for (gosh!) 22 years. Had a little photo shoot in #mountstreetgardens yesterday and I think she is looking very fabulous... The best health writer out there - and her wisdom is always to be found at our website www.beautybible.com @beautybibleofficial - plus I think we might be seeing a bit more of her on #insta too. Celebrating 22 years of laughs, hard work, cake, tiaras, book tours (‘if it’s Wednesday it must be Leeds’) and friendship 💕 Pup ‘paw-traits’ being done @fishseddynyc - loved these! #dogart #dogartist Danger, danger, warning, warning! My advice is to stay well away from the curly-topped pastry centre and right - a kind of super-sticky croissant laced with black sesame... Apparently called a ‘kouign amman’ (from @patisseriechanson on 23rd Street NYC) - I’m really glad I’m now on the other side of the Atlantic to these babies... #outrageouslydelicious #kouignamann SWIPE! So we went to #niagarafalls - a half-hour drive from the wedding location for cousin #matthewdoxtad - and it was WAY more breathtaking and impressive and bloody awe-inspiring than we could ever have imagined... And not cheesy, as I’d expected it to be. Just flipping epic! And because it was sunny, gorgeous #rainbows everywhere... But here’s the thing - most people get out of their cars and wander to the first viewing platform. But if you cross to the second and third islands on foot, there’s almost nobody there. Just wilderness, with these giant rapids thundering past. We walked a woodland trail so undisturbed that it was barely a visible path - just yards away from one of the world’s greatest tourist attractions (deservedly so). And although there are lots of paid-for ‘experiences’ on offer, it’s completely free. A National Park. Just #blownaway (and so not expecting to be!) SWIPE FOR HAPPINESS! Just the loveliest #familywedding for our cousin #matthewdoxtad & his wonderful #bride @meagancwalker in Buffalo, NY. So good to see @ddoxtad @emilylouisevollmar @jdoxtad @jamesdoxtad and the Doxtad boys, the Ronnfeldt cousins and share Matt & Meagan’s highly original and special day. Ridiculously good-looking (and laugh-out-loud funny) family and so heavenly to meet a new and enchanting bunch of little cousins.#wearefamily #cousinsrock #happydays I can’t make out if @craigsams is being romantic with these early-morning veg harvest arrangements or doing it for his own amusement.... Anyway, we’re just about keeping up with the continuing bounty... #veggiesrock #1001wayswithzucchini #courgettes #cucumbers (wow, quite something when you discover there are more than half a million posts tagged ‘cucumbers’! Clearly ours isn’t the only glut)

PODCAST

For the Guardian's Meet the Mentors podcast series Jo gave her tips to milliner Sahar Freemantle on how to make it big. Listen below...

For the Guardian's Meet the Mentors podcast series Jo gave her tips to milliner Sahar Freemantle on how to make it big. Listen below...

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