My occasional guilty freelancer pleasure is to take myself off for lunch somewhere alone. Nowhere fancy, but normally involving a spaghetti Carbonara, a cappuccino and a copy of The Gentlewoman. It’s a guilty thing why? My dish of choice is many things, but it’s not healthy and it makes me incredibly sleepy, so it’s not […]
Almost completely at random, while looking for something else on the Tate’s website, I found the work of Peter Brook. He was is landscape artist painting scenes of the Pennines and other wind swept, desolate bits of Britain. This painting of Wigan looks to me exactly the way Wigan appeared when I drove through it […]
Quick, fetch your best head scarf. Grey Gardens is up for rent in June 2013. Is $125,000 for two months of living like Big and Little Edie a bit steep for you? Then here’s a little Get The Look for you to work in your own home. 1. Middleton Pink paint by Farrow & Ball. 2. Dalston Rose Love Seat […]
Just back from Dulux’s Let’s Colour Awards at the Fashion and Textile Museum. It was all about who had made an outstanding contribution to colour in the last year. Sadly my name didn’t make the shortlist. The winners were a mixed bag – round of applause for the Olympic ceremony everyone – but the homes […]
I rented flats from the age of 17 until I was 3o. Living in – and trying to personalise – eight bedrooms in total. So Olivia Howitt’s blog, What’s In Your Bedroom, stirs memories. Her subjects are often in flatshares, where their bedrooms are the only place for a bit of personal expression. To be honest, […]