So it’s time for the ropey holiday snaps. I spent a week in the super-cute French seaside town of Collioure. I’ve seen it described as the French St Ives, and it is, but sunnier. A historic fishing village overlooking three pretty beaches, its a maze of alleyways between the maison du pecheur, tall local houses […]
Without, hopefully, alienating any readers we might have gained during Gents’ Week, today is about bigging up super magazine The Gentlewoman. That’s issue no 6, currently on the news stand – your correspondent only bought it for the first time last week to make up the newsagent’s minimum card spend of £10. But it’s worth […]
I have doubled the number of Glaswegian’s in my life, and find myself tempted, without thinking, to mimick their lovely way of putting a sentence around. So I will give in, this once, and say, inauthentically, “that’s me,back from my holidays”. Tomorrow, some of my amatuerish snaps of the South of France, but today I […]
Saw this bit of pavement art that I’m calling pavazzle, in Herne Hill at the weekend. It reminds me of something I wrote about years ago, which you could easily copy if you have 10,000 bottle tops and a lot of patience. Art student Sebastian, from Stockholm, was only 22 when he made that splashback […]
The Park Hill estate is a well-known social housing project in Shefflield. It’s a Grade II brutalist building, designed by architects Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith in the 1940’s (and built by 1961), taking inspiration from Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation and incorporating the ‘streets in the sky’ concept, which was pioneered by architects Alison and Peter Smithson. […]