I shocked even myself on friday night when, instead of throwing myself at the takaway menu drawer – surely you have one in your home? – I took myself off to Deptford for the Cockpit Arts open studios. Dissapointingly I didn’t run into Mary Portas who’s been tweeting about Cockpit lately. But, I did discover from designer Naomi Ryder that Mazza and I share the same taste in teacups.

Naomi makes her illustrations in embroidery first, ‘drawing-with-stitch’ then transposing the imagery onto bone china. I note that on the website this set costs £20 and not £200 as I thought I read on the price tag on friday night. Oh how things would have played out differently but for this error.

Onto another hightlight of the show. Designer Catarina Riccabona’s hand-woven and hand-sewn cushions. Catarina, who is almost puritanical about her sunstainable design processes, uses only natural materials such as linen, hemp and wool yarns and she only sources from Europe. She mixes unbleached and undyed yarns with second-hand coloured yarns and constructs the cushion fillings out of organic wool fleece covered in linen and vintage fabrics.

A cushion of this size actually did cost in the region of £200 – person not included – so I didn’t get one of them either, much as I wanted to.

How did you not spend money on friday night?