I have to confess that while I am finding almost nothing funny in the current political climate – even jokes about David Cameron humming have left me cold – I have been amused by the long, light-hearted articles in The Evening Standard on post-Brexit London behaviour and etiquette. The fact I have recently left London can be no coincidence. A recent piece talked about post-Brexit hedonism going hand in hand with the much-discussed depression. A Brexitential Crisis I think was how they put it. Here, it having been my birthday and all, I feel I am also engaging in an incredible period of hedonism. A hedonism of things.

Darkroom notebook from Jill, potent whisky from Tammy

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All the bad cats

This is my bad one. Sitting with a wild stare in her eye as she’s been carrying her latest kill around the house while yowling. Loudly. Happily for me, my cat limits her kill to objects that are inanimate. Tunisian slippers, animal keyrings, the mouse from The Gruffalo and now this ghastly small doll that […]

Highland cabin porn

Killiehuntly estate is near Glenfeshie in the Cairngorms and includes a child-free farmhouse where you can stay and have your breakfast made for you, and a child-friendly cottage where you make your own food and fun. The latter of which I stayed in for two nights after our camping mini break. Good grief it’s beautiful, […]

Iggy Pop and his chairs

Did you see Iggy Pop on tv the other week telling Graham Norton that he’s into collecting chairs? He puts it down to having gone from being super skint, having to sit on the floor of his apartment as he owned no chairs skint, to becoming a man who can and will buy chairs when […]

Trend: Highland hipsters

Last week it was my turn to run away to Scotland for a week to ignore technology and coalesce with the air, the lochs, the mountains and the trees. It started with three nights camping – glamping – by Loch Tay. Maybe one night too many for me, but only because the toilet cubicles were a […]