Tat London Journal

Gone are the days when you could simply pour some hot scented wax into a tumbler. The scented candle market is now full of voluptuous belters, offering the delights of sweet bucolic meadows or the spices of far-flung markets to your nose, all housed in beautiful vessels worthy of display.

Before I let Liberty take you to the Golden Valley, I must hold my hands up and admit I’ve been sitting on this article for some time. Liberty — a woman of her word — wrote this for Tat after I visited her not long after she bought her red-brick beauty.

Well, we’ve got ourselves into a bit of a muddle. I’ll put my hands up — this was bound to happen eventually. We’re stuck between a rock (homes with potential) and a hard place (the budget).