Years ago – when it first got trendy, obvs – I went on holiday with friends to Croatia. Evidence of the war was still everywhere, from ransacked cottages on the coast to bullet holes in the walls and pavements of the historic city Dubrovnik. On a daytrip there we came upon an extraordinary derelict hotel, […]
We’re terrible at keeping secrets. Jill once said I was the most indiscreet person she’d ever met. But we have been keeping a secret here at MFH, for months and months. At last we can tell you about it. This week sees the launch of a brand new online interiors magazine called The Chromologist. 18 […]
I was listening to a heated debate on LBC radio yesterday. It was about the Queen’s Speech and the proposal requiring supermarkets to charge 5p for every plastic bag. Something, I might add, I am in favour of. LBC’s callers were more of a mixed – ahem – bag. One lady pet shop owner phoned […]
I hope you will allow me a day or two of post-holiday nostalgia. Just back from Corfu, and I thought I’d share with you this wonderful secret corner. Not that secret mind – two days running, the same English family bugged the hell out of me there by hollering about diving techniques and goggles, instead […]
If it’s possible, I think I still have a holiday hangover from my NYC trip in April. The defining feature of which is missing mooching around an average of three art galleries a day. I’m prescribing night visits as the cure in London (not maybe three a night) and thought I might hit Tauba Auerbach at the […]