In honour of The Gaucho International Polo try some Flash Hobbying. Turn up and get a stick, ball and hobby horse and start playing polo.

If you want to go to the main event at the O2 on March 21st tickets are priced between £22.50 and £72 per person (inc booking fees).

Learn how to seduce women thanks to a humorous new video series from Joop! Homme, the classic fragrance for men.

The video series features James Charm, a seduction expert as he gives viewers some practical tips that may actually work from how to hit on girls in supermarkets to how to eliminate a rival.

Joop fragrances belong to the Coty group founded in Paris in 1904 by François Coty.

Sponsored by Joop.

1. In the Hindi language “Bas” means aroma and Mati means “full of”

2. Basmati is only grown in the Northern Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and parts of western Uttar Pradesh, Jammar and Kashmir

3. Only one crop of Basmati rice can be grown per year

4. 2.2 million tonnes of Basmati is exported to 100 countries every year

5. Basmati is unique in it’s characteristics of being exceptionally long and slender

6. The average volume expansion of Basmati rice is 3.5mm

7. The minimum cooked rice length is 12mm

8. Basmati rice is gluten free

9. Basmati rice is sodium, cholesterol and fat free

10. As well as boiled and steamed Basmati can also be ground for use in cooking. Take a look at a simple recipe for Chawal-E-Zohara here.

Great music video by Gotye for his song ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’, featuring Kimbra and taken from his album Making Mirrors. The mp3 is available now on iTunes.

It’s raining outside, cold inside and there might be more snow. What could be better than closing your eyes and thinking of summer. Summer in Formentera in fact.

The island where everyone is so laid back most don’t bother with clothes and you feel a million miles away from platform 3 at Liverpool Street Station.

Es Ram is nestled in a pine grove and is a wash of white and cream punctuated by brightly coloured gardens and the piercing blue sea. The resort is made up of ‘living spaces’; an 8 bedroom main house, a 2 bedroom and shared bathroom villa, and three double occupancy independent villas.

Potter around, borrow a Fiat Panda for some tootling, take a déshabillé dip from the private beach, relax on double loungers scattered among the boulders and saunter over to the main house for some al fresco Italian seafood under the stars.

Daydream here, rates from around £800 p/p per week including breakfast.

Simple Instructions for putting meat in belly.

1. Go to Harrods
2. Stand at Butcher’s block and demand meat
3. Decide on cut
4. Decide on price or size
5. Decide on cooking
6. Sit at counter
7. Watch steak cook
8. Slice, sauce, swallow
9. Meat is in belly

Sides and wine are optional, we recommend the triple-cooked fries, creamed spinach and a bottle of the Barbera del Piemonte 2010.

neon verdict: Go! Go! Go!
No frills, no waiters, no perusing menus, no amuse bouche, no starters, not even any bread. This is all about the meat. A butchers block waiting for your cut that hangs behind the head of the butcher/Chef. The only distraction from the 21-day dry-aged Aberdeen Angus beef are the shoppers peering over your shoulder at your plate. Get a table around the side or keep your Laguiole knife brandished high.

Dear Valentine,

xxx

Following the success of the launch in November the Wild Life night returns on Friday 9th March. Wildlife brings a night of Tech, House, and Garage. Taking place in Designersblock, a discreet and unique venue in Hoxton, still to be discovered by many of the locals its well worth checking out.

Headliners Disclosure are returning fresh from their European tour supporting SBTRKT, counting Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw as fans they are currently receiving lots of airplay on Radio 1, XFM and Kiss FM. Amongst others F.E.A.R will be supporting, an emerging talent from West London fresh from BPM festival in Mexico, their unique style is getting them noticed and 2012 is destined to be a very big year for them.

A laid back, party atmosphere awaits, expect an eclectic mix of music, Jungle Juice cocktails and Hoxton hipster attendance.

£7 before midnight, £10 after

The home of exuberant decadence has launched The Ultimate Fitness Retreat in partnership with PTX Performance Training. The programme, devised to be physically and mentally challenging, involves a four day three night stay of hospitality and high impact ‘performance’ (they don’t mention the e-word).

In this short space of time guests will be led through ‘a dynamic and exhilarating journey of personal discovery designed to renew,rejuvenate and inspire individuals to embrace and sustain a positive change in their lives’.

In the spirit of the Burj guests will benefit from daily 45 minute massages, sunrise yoga, food demonstrations from incredible Chefs who also provide a full board of meals, snacks and drinks.

If any quick fix is going to work then this is it. Sign us up!

Price
About £2,250 single or £3,000 double occupancy
Four day all-inclusive package excluding flights

Neon picked up a sample of DHC’s Water-Soluble Deep Cleansing Oil and was instantly hooked.

This amazing oil contains goes on dry skin as a super rich vitamin E and hydrating olive oil lotion and then rinses off leaving skin clean and fresh but also really hydrated and you can feel the difference after using it for the first time.

Since discovering the brand we’ve also tried their Olive-Corn Body Scrub and Polish and the Mascara Perfect Pro. The Scrub smells amazing, apparently using “granules from natural corn cob powder to exfoliate” which really does give you a polish. The Mascara stays of for ages thanks to the same polymer tubes as in Blinc so no smudging.

All of DHC’s products seem very well priced and we are looking forward to trying more of the range.