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Review: Curio

Gosh, If we’re not busy prepping up for seminars here, we can be found on other people’s websites boldly forecasting trends. I only bring this up because lately, we announced that the future was online mags and that takes me seamlessly to the point of this post. Have you seen Curio yet? Issue 1 launched […]

Interiors UK 2013

We’re making a speech!

Can you imagine? We’re on a panel talking about blogging at Interiors UK, the big interiors fair in Birmingham this week. We got together at the weekend for a practice. We’ve even put together a really rubbish PowerPoint presentation. If you’re at the fair on Tuesday then do come along. The other members of the […]

Lassco clearance sale

Londoners, clear the snow piles from your doorstep. Today, LASSCO is having a warehouse sale at its Bermondsey shop on Ropewalk, Maltby Street. Up to 90% off. There’s mention of Uncle Monty’s library from Withnail and I in the press release…  (if that doesn’t float your boat, the illuminated SEX sign from a Soho book shop might). […]

Douglas Coupland dartboards

Bit of bully

Everybody watching the darts? Haven’t been to bed before half two this week, because those ladies’ matches from Lakeside are so gripping. Darts nights at home are the new dinner parties – My Friend and I made up a foursome at her house, complete with a box of confectionery for prizes. Her kitchen door hardly […]

Blue plaque attack

Have you read that English Heritage are stopping it with the Blue Plaques in London, due to funding cuts? What do you think about that? I had mixed feelings about them. The breadth of people commemorated is to be applauded, but the sulky schoolchild in me often thought… ‘Who?’ I enjoyed the artist Gavin Turk’s […]