Just taking a break from Gripe Week (love that My Friend – wish every week was Gripe Week) to post something I don’t hate. As mentioned on here before, I really like Tracey Emin. Well now, for a short time only, she’s got her own shop at Selfridges, selling her own range of homewares. My […]
My Friend your garden looks amazing. I’ve got a ‘mature’ garden and I can tell you it has its drawbacks… I thought you might be interested in this hidden gem, open this Sunday as part of the National Gardens Scheme. It’s Choumert Square, a gated road in Peckham, made up of 46 cottages. The path […]
Well we might have, but you will at least grant us that we’re not called My Friend’s Vibe. American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has no such issues, as I found when I read her blog My Vibe, My Life. Here’s a typical entry, with Kelly down at the market, vibing with a lettuce. For those […]
I’m on staycation this week, doing the garden and eating pain au chocolat for breakfast among other things. But I did make it out to Clerkenwell on tuesday for the press breakfast where one of the highlights for me was this… White beech chair with pencil crayon seat design, which you can’t fully appreciate from […]
…is what I’ll have if I don’t make it to see Tracey Emin’s show at the Hayward. I heard her interviewed on Weekend Woman’s Hour, after reading Brian Sewell moaning about her ‘not appealing to half the population’ in the Evening Standard. I think she’s great, and I particularly like her writing – Strangeland, her […]