If you live in, work in or have had to pass through Kings Cross at any point in the last eight or so years, you’ll have seen the area’s extraordinary transformation from industrial waste land / looks like where the bodies are dug up by unknowing construction workers in a grim BBC1 Drama, to a […]
Dear Jill as promised I am finally sending a dispatch to you and the blog about life on the island – just as it’s coming to an end. Let’s get the most galling aspect out of the way first – the weather has been amazing, with daily swims – our wet suits are as yet […]
Hey I know I was bigging up hobbies in the evening not two minutes ago. But, I’ve also discovered and become totally obsessed with Alec Baldwin’s radio show Here’s The Thing. You could say this is the logical conclusion of coming to the end of all seven 30 Rock series. Anyway, on it the actor […]
Just to recap, Ros is on a sort of self-styled writer’s retreat on a stunning hideaway island in Scotland for a month and has been swimming with otters – I went to the same place during the summer on her recommendation and use the word ‘stunning’ with intensity. I am in London doing London Design Festival. I’m not […]
…Is one of many quotes you might struggle to identify with on a personal level in the book Belgravia by German-born artist Karen Knorr who shot subjects from the wealthy set of the famous London neighbourhood between 1979 and 1981 – the beginning of Thatcherism. The artist’s parents lived in Belgravia and her mother and grandmother feature […]