Unless you’re nursing a new-born, are on the long-term sick, or recovering from major surgery, it’s unlikely you’ll have watched as much You’ve Been Framed as me. I’m completely addicted to it, and can’t attend a wedding or see a trampoline without expecting something to go awfully wrong at any minute. Harry Hill, who does […]
I’m back from the fete in my mum and dad’s village in rural France.
Shop news, shop news, come and get your shop news. I have two stories for you – one North of the river and one South (none outside London, sorry). The first is Andrea Bates’ shop Future & Found in Tuffnel Park, which is hosting special Marketplace shopping events some weekends over summer in the […]
Only five minutes down the road and I hadn’t heard a thing about this. But now that I have, I’m delighted. Goldsmiths art college has settled on an architect to build a gallery, showing both students’ work and that of established international artists, on its New Cross campus. Horray.
I don’t honestly know much about the French writer, artist and film director Jean Cocteau. But I have read that he was an influential figure in the Paris avant-garde scene in the 1920’s, that he was mates with Picasso, had a row with Marcel Proust over a coat, and made friend’s with Charlie Chaplin on […]