Wish I was there

Dreaming of lidos

In three weeks time I’ll be meeting my second born, so its exciting times here. But, I only tell you this so that I can briefly moan about the heat in London yesterday and its effects on my ankles, and to explain why I am now pouring over pictures of the UK’s best – and […]

Plates, stacks and words

Yup, I have three lonely plates hanging on the wall by my stairs. So this spectacle shames and delights me in equal measures. It’s the staircase over at wallpaper designer Tracy Kendall’s house. She found the paper plates (Indian, she thinks) for £4 each in a Designers Guild sale, ‘last century,’ she says. Amazing, aren’t […]