I’m not sure whether you’ve been following our work over on The Chromologist, but we get to write the loveliest things with the only restriction being that there must be a link to colour. Pretty unrestricting as it turns out. I wanted to share this story with you from the site, because it’s about a […]
There are thousands of emails coming in about the next London Design Festival, which starts on the 13th September. Ros and I are nearly booking holidays while it’s on just to avoid trying to whittle down the events that we’d like to visit. Anyway, this live installation at the V&A involving Ella Doran making a […]
Earlier this year my mum started volunteering in a foodbank in Cornwall. She was telling me about the process, exchanging vouchers given to the attendees by local agencies for boxes for a family, a couple, a single person. People are allowed to swap up to five items from their box. Consumer choice in action!
This time three weeks ago I was on holiday by Loch Tay, Perthshire and it looked like this. Those big oversized cow parsley looking plants are, I think, wild Angelica. They were everywhere, I wanted to get my spade out to bring one home, but we were flying to Italy from Scotland so it didn’t […]
Friends visited us this weekend in Margate, and, having chatted to the patient, sun-bleached men who run the swing boats on the beach, reported varying views on whether the town was… ‘changing’. Meanwhile I visited Haeckels, a business that seems to me to represent the best of what might be changing about Margate. It’s a […]