Every good blog has one…Do you know about Fine Cell Work? It’s a social enterprise that trains prisoners in skilled and paid needlepoint work, often commissioned by interior designers. The organisation first came to my attention when I saw some of their Tattoo cushions in Tom Dixon’s shop, but I think you can also buy the sewing kits in Liberty if you like to make your own.

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Copper in the kitchen

Let me start this post with a warning: DON’T google ‘copper kitchens’. I did it to research this post and I wouldn’t recommend it. Not because it turns out that (like everything else) it’s some weird web-friendly sexual practice, but just because the copper kitchens on display are hideous. I do believe there is another […]

An Instagram favourite

I’ll tell you this much about Instgram. You (I mean me) should know better, but you can get right swept up in endless photos of Alexa Chung’s hair and her shoe collection. And don’t get me started on Ana Kras’s world (she of the Bonbons). There’s one Instgram feed that has recently gripped me above […]

Peckham Peculiar

The other day, one colleague shouted to another, ‘Did you know Ros doesn’t have an Oyster card?’ ‘How does she get on the tube?’ the other replied. ‘She has a little paper card that she actually puts through the machines!’ There was much hilarity that this service still existed, or had ever been thought of […]

Get the look: Jimi Hendrix

News that £1.2m lottery money is going on restoring Jimi Hendrix’s old flat at London’s 23 Brook Street led to two events here. First a search for photos of the place as it was back then – more on that in a bit – and second, an epiphany that the future has surely got to be […]