Since my trip to Aldeburgh I’ve been thinking about the loveliness of the painted buildings there. I didn’t photograph the best ones because I was so cold, but the memorable thing was the intricate door frames and windows painted in surprising, contrasting colours to the walls. Pink and parcel-paper brown for example. So I was […]
May I bring to your attention a photography exhibition that starts tomorrow night. The photographer in question is my friend Meg. We work together sometimes on stories we’re both interested in. She’s great. Much braver at knocking on doors than me, and much more charming. Photographing the residents of post-war prefab Excalibur Estate in Catford, […]
Yesterday on Twitter designer Gillian Kyle gave us a sneak preview of her new textile range, inspired, she said, by the Ritz Cafe in Millport. Millport is the town on Scottish holiday island Cumbrae, and though I haven’t been there, I know someone who has. A lot. The Ritz itself is a 1950s gem with […]
Before I introduce my newest magazine discovery, Kindling Quarterly – created in Brooklyn, aimed at trendy Dads – I feel I should flag up that I can’t think of a single man in my life, past or present, who might buy it. Sure, that says more about the number of sensitive magazine-reading men* I know than relevance […]
The Easter weekend and I went on a tour of seaside towns. Aldeburgh in Suffolk has next to no ugly developments on the seafront. Instead handsome painted houses and funny little cottages face onto the big shingle beach, intercut with alleyways. It was the colours that struck me. Seaside houses are often painted in […]