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Talking Culture - August
Edinburgh Festival
This week we travelled back up to Edinburgh, and went to see the famous festival. It was definitely less busy than normal – I did not see buskers or leaflet distributors, so it h...
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Talking Tables Talks Books #4
The book club at Talking Tables is a tradition that has been running for several years now and it’s always been a great opportunity for the booklovers among us to get together, get reading and ce...
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How To Lay a Cakestand
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.” - Henry James
Did you know that the concept of tea parties and afternoon tea only came ...
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Talking Tables' Summer Days Away
Talking Tables has teams across the world, with offices in London, Shanghai and New York. This summer each team enjoyed team days out as a celebration of summer and the successes of the year so far...
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How To Create Colourful Balloon Arch
It’s easy to make someone feel special on their birthday with one of our fantastic new balloon arches! Available in bright or pastel rainbow colours.
Where to get the balloon kit for m...
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Staying Sustainable With The TT Swap Shop
As I’m sure you’ve heard by now we are on our journey to becoming B-Corp certified, via a multitude of avenues, both within our product offering and also our internal processes as an office. This m...
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Talking Culture: Wilderness Festival!
After 18 months of no events, no crowds, no live music this summer life has felt like a burst of normality. As soon as we saw a glimmer of hope that large scale events could be back on my friends ...
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Talking Culture: The Art Of Banksy
On Friday Culture Club headed to London’s bustling Covent Garden, to see the Art Of Banksy exhibition. As a household name artist we were excited to get to see some original and iconic pieces. The ...
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Talking Culture: Alice In Wonderland at The V&A
As Truly Alice is an ongoing successful collection for us at Talking Tables, I was keen to visit this exhibition – delayed from 2020.
The exhibition exceeded my expectations in its breadth and rele...
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Where To Get Your Table Setting Inspiration
You can find a lot of the tablescapes we have created over on our Instagram, as well as our Inspiration page. Here the team details what theme was chosen and why, the products used, brand collabora...
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Talking Topic: Staying Successful As An Independent Retailer
Edinburgh is the city I went to school in so is close to my heart.
A favourite shopping area is Stafford Street, and a great store for cards and gifts is Paper Tiger managed by Michael Apter. Pap...
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Talking Tables Summer Festival: Music
It’s safe to say music is what makes festivals, and we knew we wanted to choose some brilliant musicians for our own summer festival in the Cotswolds. We also wanted to support local artists, so ou...
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Mentoring Matters: Meet Francesca
This summer Francesca joined us for a 3 week work experience placement. Having just finished her A-levels she wanted to get some experience of a workplace before heading to uni in September. We wer...
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Talking Topic: Festival Fever With Laura Randles
With the Talking Tables Festival just a week away the excitement is real! We could not have planned and organised any of it would the help of Laura Randles, who has planned it to perfection! With t...
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Talking Tables Talks books #3
The book club at Talking Tables is a tradition that has been running for several years now and it’s always been a great opportunity for the booklovers among us to get together, get reading and cele...
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Volunteer Scheme: A Morning On The Common
As we kick off our new volunteering scheme some of the Talking Tables team wanted to help the local community by doing a morning litter pick on Clapham Common, near our office. With the sun shining...
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It's Coming Home! We're In The Euros Spirit
The Euros are in full swing and we have fully got into the spirit in the Talking Tables office. We have taken part in a sweepstake, with some people more confident of their picks than others! We ho...
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TT Festival Of Freedom: Keeping It Eco
For the Talking Tables’ Festival Of Freedom we are excited to have partnered with some fun and delicious drinks brands, including Sibling Gin – a local family-run gin distillery. We shall be making...
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Talking Tables Talks Books #2
The book club at Talking Tables is a tradition that has been running for several years now and it’s always been a great opportunity for the booklovers among us to get together, get reading and cele...
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Mentoring Matters - Meet Harrison
One of our key tenets here at Talking Tables is mentoring. We believe that mentoring young people starting out in their careers is important, as well as within the team structure itself. We are ple...
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Talking Culture - June
Theatre - Barbican and Bridge Theatre present Vox Motus’ Flight
It is unusual to see a 5* review in the paper, and having not been to the theatre for ages due to Covid-19, we jumped at the chance t...
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