Like everyone else in this city, I’m finding it hard to sleep in the heat and easy to pick up my phone at god knows what hour to read terrible nonsense into the wee night. Sometimes I hit on good stuff though, such as the Whistles blog. It involves house tours, which are sort of Closet Visit-style, […]
Well sort of. I read earlier in the week that the Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £69,000 (what a bargain) to maintain London’s remaining cabmen’s shelters. If you know London at all you’ll have seen these shelters, though you may not have known what they are. 61 were built between 1875 and 1914, mainly, it […]
My son threw up on his rug the other night, enough to render it dead. So while I’ve been meaning to blog about this company for ages, turns out this week is timely. Please allow us to introduce the wonderful company Beldi Rugs, run by Tamsin Flower, from her London home, and Emma Wilson, from […]
That’s Pussy Riot – or at least the three members that were put on trial after staging their 40-second protest performance at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Nadya (right) in a t-shirt that my deeply fashionable other half owns. We spotted this when watching this documentary at the NFT in association with Yoko Ono’s Meltdown. Since it’s […]
We shouldn’t ignore Hadley Freeman’s important work in the field of feminism. But did you know she’s also started 80s film club blog?! Good news if, like me, you think her writing style is great and you love 80s films.* So far she’s covered the following titles (among others), which as a test I will […]