I just saw some great photos in the Guardian today and had to share. I am fascinated by folk art and folk festivals, both in the Uk and around the world. My home county of Cornwall of course has plenty – I remember being quite frightened by what was, back in the 80s, a rough-and-tumble, […]
I was in Oxford for a lovely wedding at the weekend and left myself with 15 minutes to get ready owing to an accidental shop discovery made after getting my nails did. Objects of Use is like Labour and Wait crossed with Native and Co with a touch of Skandium thrown in. It’s all utility-like […]
An email just in this morning from the cousins, who pointed out that the pic I shared yesterday of their amazing and ambitious French renovation project was taken when they first arrived and therefore looked a little sad. Below is the before, from when they arrived in 2011… And here is the after, taken just […]
Everyone has something that signals the end of the working day. For me it’s a trawl through the Freeview channels for a couple of hours of ‘property porn’. I like to sit on the sofa, and watch people being shown potential dream properties in hot places while they ooh and aah about how much they […]
A seemingly rare victory for old London against the developers occurred this week, when a planning committee voted not to allow British Land’s plans for Norton Folgate. I didn’t write about it at the time as, well, if I wrote about every building under threat here we’d never cover anything else. It gets depressing. If […]