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Friday house tours

Some classic friday viewing for you, I’ve discovered – perhaps late, who knows I’ve stopped reading twitter – that Vogue has a video strand called Inside the Wardrobes of  which, I’m here to tell you is quite fun if you also like snooping around the houses of A listers. I mean, check out Lilly Allen’s wallpaper. […]

RCA Graduate shows 2015

An artist friend had me schlepping to Battersea last night to see the RCA graduate shows of the Fine Art and Material departments – Material being Ceramics & Glass, Jewellery & Metal. I didn’t go to Art School, though I did a design degree, but I did hangout with art schoolers and their fabulous vintage […]

Peckham’s answer to Brixton Village?

Forgive me if this post doesn’t go into as much detail on the complex issues around gentrification in south London – I’m off to Corfu in 12 hours and mainly I’m googling sea-facing olive sheds to buy, and trying on my snorkel. However I just wanted to give MFH readers a ‘you heard it here […]

Dining in a Spitalfields Huguenot building

More talk of 40ths this week on the blog. While Ros was man handling a big surfie with those famous long arms I was celebrating my man and his best friend’s 40ths over a fine dinner and too many cocktails in a Huguenot building in Spitalfields. I’ve got to say, from my position of not […]

Whitsand_bay

Surf’s Up!

I am dictating my post today, Barbara Cartland-style, to my assistant. The reason being I have been on a surfing weekend, and have severely numb arms. Ten of us gathered at Whitsand Bay in Cornwall to celebrate my friend’s 40th. We rented chalets above the beach and had a 2 hour surfing lesson in the […]