Hey, how was Christmas? I’m typing this on Christmas Eve, when I should be making a trifle. I just wanted to share some photographs of the Catford Excalibur Estate, Britain’s largest estate of prefab homes. I went there in the autumn with my friend Meg, the photographer, to take pictures of some of the residents and their homes before the estate is demolished.

This is Eddie. At 92 he’s the oldest resident on the estate. He moved there in 1946 after coming home from the war, and Meg and I spent a really lovely, fascinating, moving couple of hours speaking to him about his memories of the estate.

See more of our pictures and interviews with the residents in today’s Guardian, hopefully here.

Christmas 2012

Happy holidays everybody, from her house… and mine… Back in a bit.

Office Christmas party

Last night was the very exclusive My Friend’s House Christmas party. One of us was half an hour late. Only one of us had bothered washing our hair. One of us suggested the other become a therapist. Both of us were very hungover. And we exchanged Secret Santa gifts. Do you want to see? First […]

More from the floor

Ok, yeah, so I went to Ikea to get a rug. No, no it was fine. Really. That thing in the warehouse bit where I got likened to Jesus dragging his cross? Quickly forgotten once the rug was in the car. It was all fine. My only question now is, have I bought something a […]

Brixton East (by night)

It’s all go in Brixton just now. Not two minutes after blogging about Brixton Village, My Friends House was invited to a party just along the road from it, at Brixton East. It’s Andy Luckett’s warehouse-turned-temporary furniture shop, which is open every weekend (fridays-sundays) until Christmas eve. Andy was in attendance at the party last […]