After my TV-free week away, the first thing I did was slump in front of hours of property porn when I got home. OK, no the first thing I did was watch the cast of Geordie Shore getting mortal and tashing-on in Newcastle nightclubs. But suffice it to say TV has been big on the agenda since I got back. And I was delighted to find a new favourite thing – Castle Builders.

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Hermit’s holiday part 1

Ahhhh. That’s better. I needed to get away from it all, and I couldn’t have chosen a better spot. I’ve just spent a week in this little cottage at the far end of a private island in Scotland. The nearest neighbour was a 40 minute hike away, over hills, moors, up a rope and through […]

Tunisia in pictures part II

So I was walking down the hill in Sidi Bou Said thinking I’d got the measure of things and happened to look left past an unremarkable door where I caught sight of some swanky wooden spoons. Found it. The Interiors Shop in Sidi Bou Said. It’s called Rock the Kasbah and seems to have an outpost […]

Tunisia in pictures part I

Your heart will break for me, I’m sure, when I share with you that I feel sad today because I can no longer expect for breakfast every day an egg chef, my daily almond croissant, delicious coffee and freshly squeezed orange or strawberry juice. Last week for me, was spent in Tunisia and hot damn […]

Modern art quiz

Just a quick question to you today. I’m looking for a bit of help with a picture I just bought. It looks to me like another cheap reproduction of a famous painting – aka my new favourite thing. I picked it up in Aladdin’s Cave along with the little Gauguin in the frame. The Gauguin […]