Barbara Hepworth’s Winged Figure sculpture is 50 years old this week. It’s the sculpture that graces the side of the John Lewis store in Oxford Street. I love this sculpture. It’s always been a reminder of home to me in the Big Smoke. In May 1961 Barbara was invited by the John Lewis Partnership to […]
Your roving reporter took a purposeful trip to Penge two days ago to visit the independent eco garden centre Alexandra Nurseries. I have aspirations of turning my front garden into a mini meadow. The independent shop is run by two landscape gardeners, John and Sarah, who live in the adjoining house. Both buildings are part of […]
Jill and I used to work for the same magazine – that’s how we met. It wasn’t a glamorous job at all, but once a year our employers would send both of us to the Milan Furniture Fair. Rainy, busy, disorientating, boring and fun, I haven’t been for ages. But this year I really felt […]
Before I get into a shameless shopping-not-culture account of my short holiday in Scandinavia, check out the kind of view I had in Sweden. Vast snowy expanses, frozen lakes and cute, pitched-roof houses painted in Falu red, soft grey-blue or mustard yellow. I loved it. The holiday started with a quick stopover in Copenhagen to […]
Where Jill and I worked, our friend kept what she called a ‘Friday File’. She put any post that came in that looked remotely interesting in her Friday File, to read as a treat during the dying hours of the working week. This was before Facebook and Bored Panda, needless to say. So here, let […]