From the wilderness to consumerism. Diversity innit. Today while pretty much everywhere else is about monumental things happening with the UK, here it’s going to be about a new interior shop on Redchurch Street called Monologue, which I believe opened just this week. I popped in on the way home from Tent – a trade fair on Brick Lane – and spent 15 minutes going snap happy with the camera.

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Released back into the wild

Where do you imagine this September sunset picture was taken? It looks a bit like Corfu to me. But it isn’t. It was taken last week in Scotland. I had another holiday last week. A month after visiting the remote Scottish bothy for the first time, I made time to go back. This time the […]

Trend or travesty: Strapped?

Whoa, we’re all over the place this week, but it’s been fun and nice to bump into some faces we’ve not seen in a while. A little trend of travesty for you today based on something spotted during LDF14. Shelving held up by fabric straps. Sound weird? It’s not actually, it’s pretty nice. The first […]

Shepherd’s hut chic

To Hoxton Square. When I first moved to London this little patch of green was home to the legendary White Cube gallery and loads of clubs that were hard to get into and not as fun as you thought they’d be. The White Cube has moved to Bermondsey and the bars and clubs are now […]

Wrecked

I am back from a(nother) week of holiday – thanks Jill – and I’ve been back to the divine, remote Scottish bothy. Expect a week of posts about living by candle light, gathering firewood and sharing your garden with deer. But first, a demonstration that in my mania for unheated stone houses I am not […]