What’s in my fridge is perhaps a post for another day. A day after I’ve been to the Londis. But what is on the door? … ah, that I’m about to (real) reveal. In principal I don’t really like things on fridges. But in reality I have no office, no pin board, and I work at the little yellow Formica table in the kitchen. So the fridge is what I glance up at, and it’s a place of inspiration, reminders and, er, stuff I don’t want to lose. You ready?

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Istanbul, down under (first published May 2010)

Hello and welcome to My Friend’s House Greatest Hits II – our look back, for the second time, to posts from our archive. We’ll be doing it all week before resuming normal service. I picked today’s post because I was feeling nostalgic about an old holiday and because it struck me how long the patterned floor fixation has […]

Friday congratulations

We’ve spun the old tombola, there was a drum roll and Jill did a twirl in her sparkly outfit, as promised. We’re now delighted to announce that the winner of our Nitin Goyal prize draw is reader Fi Duke. Thanks to everyone who entered our first ever competition, and to Nitin Goyal for providing the […]

Call me Marie Antoinette…

It’s on record that whenever I go somewhere new – an obscure European town, a British seaside resort – I immediately want to buy a house and live there. Leaving aside the potential unhealthiness of this urge and what it says about me, I have to tell you that I have a new dream house. […]

Inspired by Art O-level

I’m actually too young to have taken O-levels, but ‘GCSE’ just sounds so downmarket, don’t you think? And anyway, this inspiration, like the qualification, is much more 70s than 90s. It’s the plants one used to be obliged to draw week in, week out, in the pottery-dust sunlight of the school art room. Spider plants, […]