…My garden that is. Yes, operation shed / garden makeover is underway and I’d say it’s less jungle more building site. Here it is, complete with broken-down small shed, the beginnings of our dismantling of the path and ghastly children’s toys…

Uh huh, the previous owners of this place thought it clever to have two sheds, the smaller of which we filled with old paints, tiles and general smash leftover from doing the house up. My Friend kindly relieved us of some of the tiles, but even she drew the line at the wallpapering kit and the grout. Here’s a wonky tear sheet I’ve been using as the inspiration behind the soon-to-be started new look…

My brilliant jeweller friend Hannah has devised a new simple layout that involves raised beds, some skinny decking and a lovely selection of plants, partly inspired by her own garden. Check out her blog for some shots of it (and her lovely work). Here’s a taster…

Inside my cleaning cupboard…

…go on, have a peep… I like to slosh both of these around, then use a mop to get it into the corners. Weekly at least. That lovely scent in my house? Probably a combination of these two products. And etc… I once said to someone that I’d cleaned my bathroom with missionary zeal, and […]

Bag Lady

Brilliantly inspired or crazy mind-wanderings of a (cheap) bag obsessive? Designer Paola Navone’s Eu/phoria chair for new company Eumenes is, for me, genius. And I now want to start carrying a woven-vinyl laundry bag as a fashion choice. I hereby pronounce this…Trend!

Jungle is massive

…and I’m exhausted. A pictorial record of me weeding the garden. I can hardly move, and I’ve barely even scratched the surface. I dug so hard I snapped the trowel.

Shopper’s holiday

Vanessa Barlow and her husband spent last year revamping a 1960’s outbuilding in their garden in Lyme Regis, which they launched as a holiday-let this January, called The Garden House Studio. It’s neat, but isn’t it sweet? The beds fold up into the wall – and, shock, manage to look classy with it (those blankets […]