Did you know that the Finns have a particular relationship with language, don’t like to waste words on small talk and favour being concise? And now to a blog post about my experience of a holiday there that may or may not pay homage to this fact. It began in Lapland in ‘minus’ conditions, beautiful […]
Was Ronnie Corbett not enough for one day? Yes, on the same day that the second Ronnie bowed out, comes the sad news that Zaha Hadid, internationally acclaimed architect, has died of a heart attack aged just 65. Mr Corbett is sad, but Hadid is shocking. I think this is evidenced by the fact that […]
What did you do with your Easter weekend? Thanks to a paint order that went wrong I didn’t spend mine painting the risers on the stairs, but instead took for my bed for three days to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race. And I do mean ‘thanks’ cos it was very restorative. However, late on Monday I […]
Ah, poor cat. Moved from a house with a garden to one without. I’ve improvised with a tray of cat grass that has proved very popular in the chew-it-up-throw-it-up stakes. But still… Admittedly she’s something of a Miss Jean Brodie – in her prime, but certainly no kitten. The days of leaping about trees and […]
A torn pink velvet sofa* in an ancient and empty dusty room with massive skirting boards painted grey, looking finished next to peeling lime-coloured walls. Deep burgundy anaglypta wallpaper with a black dado rail interruption all the way up a set of stairs…. I stumbled across this old 2010 lookbook from Melbourne fashion brand Scanlan […]