Yeh, sorry that title was a suggestion I was compelled to use…

I’m going to Toulouse this weekend for the second time in my life and, equipped with some local knowledge gleaned from the last trip, I’m in the market for one of these hand door knockers that are on a lot of the city doors.

Do you think that pudgy fist is spooky? I still want one.

Since we’ve been talking superior European flea markets this week, I may as well show you some street toot I snapped that last trip too.

Mark my words, if I see a tartan trolley this time, there’s no chance it’s staying in France.

3D cinema

The best thing that I saw during my recent stay in Warsaw was easy to miss. What looked like a pair of brass binoculars was set into a wall, advertising The Fotoplastikon, a Warsaw attraction since 1905. We followed the sign through a crumbling courtyard, to this door, inside which it was all faded velvet […]

70s flavour

Loved this wall mural in York’s Zizzi restaurant. It’s by illustrator and pattern designer Abigail Borg, she of fabulous floral cushion and wallpaper collections. The mural immediately took me back to my childhood kitchen table and the plates we ate every meal from – Midwinter’s Stonehenge Flower Song by Jessie Tate. Aren’t the fabulous? I just found out […]

Polish flea

A weekend in Warsaw, and my school best friend knows what I like – a flea market. A surprisingly similar display of wares to, say, a French flea market, but there was one stall I couldn’t tear myself away from: the vintage tablecloth stall, featuring beautifully detailed, bright traditional needlework. I didn’t buy anything in […]

Holy Cavalli

I don’t know how this passed me by, but it seems Roberto Cavalli unveiled a homewares collection at Milan in April. Lets go on this journey together. That friends, is one rotating bed. The mattress size is probably the least of our worries. How about that colour palette – mark my words, everyone’s going to be talking […]