There’s a goat in my kitchen…
…what am I gonna do?
No, it’s not Siegfried and Roy running a petting zoo. It’s the new advert for Schuller kitchens, promoting the brand’s designs as being in tune with nature. Careful though, they might look cute but turn your back for a minute and those goats’ll eat your tea towels.
My new favourite colour…
Is conveyed in this sculpture at the Saatchi Gallery. I saw it yesterday through a fug of illness and it stuck with me all day. Not sure my picture fully conveys its lovely soft blue-green shade, but I’ll be spending the next few weeks hunting down a paint colour to match it, sending myself mad […]
Neighbourhood watch
I’ve got a week off work with nothing much to do. I am contemplating painting my hallway but a look at the fiendish instructions for the paint pod made me feel worn out. Instead here’s what I saw on my street today. I love my street – it’s in the bottom of what I think […]
Accordion to cabinet
Accordions. The most alluring prop in a Pina Bausch dance production (and that’s saying something) and yet also something that reminds me of full-haired Scottish folk nerd Phil Cunningham. Here’s what happens when you cross a cabinet with an accordian. Loveliness. The Accordian Cabinet is by designer Elisa Strozyk in collaboration with artist Sebastian Neeb. Ooh la […]
Waste not whatnot
Did you see SuperScrimpers? It’s a new Channel 4 series aimed at stopping rotten good-for-nothing wasteful consumerist families from buying loads of crap they don’t need. The bit I saw featured various WI-aged ladies give us tips on how to mend a jumper sleeve with a bit of old sock and making your own bath […]