Since a massive amount of distraction is now required to get through a day without exclaiming at the state of things – and because who doesn’t love Angela Lansbury – here’s new favourite Instagram phenomenon, Interiors of Murder She Wrote. Offered in the same-ish spirit as Every Outfit Sex and the City but without any […]
If you tune into the media coverage of the changing face of just about any city in the UK, you’ll know that for a while superclubs were dominating the category of ‘things developers are murdering to turn into luxury flats’. In London I think Fabric was the most recent to fall fate to this. Roll back […]
If there’s one overriding feature I noticed about Eltham Palace, it’s that you can feel the parties in the walls. Not just because of the whole Dry January nonsense currently being observed in this house or because English Heritage has set Champagne and glasses on one of the sideboards to fix the mood of a […]
I went to visit a friend last week, who has transformed his capacious but chilly Victorian living room into a hymn to plants. Exotic cacti and palms and succulents, six deep in the big bay window, some in jangly German pottery, some elevated on stands. A real Sergeant Pepper’s collection of the hippest, life-givingest plants. […]
No-ho-ho! Not my gaff. I’m sharing with you this amazing Hastings home owned by Alastair Hendy, restored by him to something like its original Tudor glory. We’ve visited here before, of course, when I was mooning over stone-floored bothies with tin baths. But this time, well it’s decorated for the season.