I was out in Camberwell at the weekend, having a treat of drinks in the Hermit’s Cave and dinner at Caravaggio’s Italian. Both of these businesses feature in a series of photographs of the area by Tom Leighton, recently exhibited in the Hermit’s itself. Although it’s been ten years since I lived on Camberwell’s main street, many of the faces in the 36 portraits of local shop keepers, publicans and restaurateurs were delightfully familiar.

 The one above is of the couple who run the grocer’s. Everything in little paper bags and flowers and plants for sale outside. The staff of the Sophocles bakery, a couple of doors down, are in the 36 too. If you know the men’s clothes shop called Italian Opinion, or have ever had a bacon sarnie at Rock Steady Eddie’s, then check out this lovely picture of a London village.

If you hate Goop…

…then you might like this. Or at least, I think I might like this. It’s the blog of David ‘Talking Heads’ Byrne, which has been up and running for years I think, and it covers all from the food he’s cooked (Shrimp Tacos!) and the places he’s visited to a review of Jay Z’s book Decoded. […]

Sclemeel, schlemazel, hasenfeffer incorporated…

On a loooooooong car journey I was boring my companion about my childhood obsession with having my own flat. At the age of eight I had a picture of a credit card cut out of the Sunday Times magazine and glued to cardboard that I imagined was a kind of swipe key, and I pretended […]

Unsettling design history

This striking looking Munich art gallery has a dark past. It was the the Third Reich‘s first monumental structure of Nazi Architecture, first opened in 1937 as Haus der Deutschen Kunst – or House of German Art. A museum for what the Third Reich considered to be Germany’s truest art, designed by architect Paul Ludwig Troost, Hitler’s foremost architect at the […]

Dog shaming

Listen, I was going to tell you all about my visit to the former SS headquarters in Munich (which, following some research turns out to be not the former SS headquarters – you’re still getting the low down next week). But anyway, I found out about the Dog Shaming blog, spent half an hour laughing […]