Striding across acres of ground at Ardingly Antiques Fair yesterday, we discovered that a joint My Friend’s House trip is not necessarily conducive to actual blogging. How is it possible to chat, peruse and take photos?

Things got off to a shaky start as we both declared a hankering for a swan jug. Luckily the only one we saw was neither colourful enough or cheap enough to tempt us, even at half price.

The large halls, where we saw this lady, seemed to be mostly about collectable pieces and so a lot of it was quite expensive. Outside, furniture, tea cups, jugs and vases were more mixed price-wise and we spent hours weighing up Susie Cooper crockery, blankets, tables and linen cupboards. Arguably too many hours. By the fifth one we grumpily declared we’d rather find one gem at a jumble sale than be surrounded by beauty. I left with this old sewing-now-make-up-box (£15).

And these jugs, discovered in the last 20 minutes in a box marked ’50p each’. 50p thank you very much. That’s what I’m talking about.

In the dog house

Just been looking at a photo gallery from Thursday’s Guardian celebrating 50 years of the Dulux dog. Thought you might like to see them too. There’s this one from 1966, which to my eyes looks perfectly fresh. Those colours wouldn’t look out of place on a Farrow & Ball card. Then this, from the year of […]

Blimey…

…was the one word email I got from My Friend on Saturday night at 10pm, along with this link. We’re thrilled and amazed to be on The Telegraph’s 20 Best Interiors Blogs list and to be described as having ‘an unerring eye for the tastefully offbeat.’ I might get that printed on a t-shirt.  We […]

View from the bed

I was just thinking how I’d run out of things to read, when it occured to me to go and photograph the sorry view from my bed. Floor just visible. Some things just never change. 20 years ago this was the scene. Does anyone else run a bedside that makes them look like a drunk […]

Packing style

I have a yellow suitcase, I introduced it here once before. It’s ancient, part of the furniture and although I now have a grown up person’s suitcase – with compartments and working zips – I  will never get rid of it. Here’s the only other suitcase I can imagine looking as magic on top of […]