Just in from Battersea Car Boot. It sells itself as a better class of Boot, and you don’t have to get there till midday, but it’s still totally mental. Anyway, I took a few minutes out from stopping people crawling into my car and, to my surprise, bought something. This painted pin-up.

What do you think? Cool or a bit naff? Both, hopefully. I like the colours, which in real life are better than this shot. And also it reminds me of another phone picture that once graced my flat.

At college my flatmate had choreographed a piece set in an 80s bedroom, and the props were brought home. It was a year of Jennifer Rush’s The Power of Love played endlessly, and this Syd Brak Athena poster – Long Distance Kiss – propped up next to the phone in the hall. I started out hating both, but warmed to them. Go on, play Jennifer Rush now, here, and have a stare at the poster. It’s good.

Shop watch

How cute is this pop-up shop near me in Herne Hill? True, by the time you are looking at this picture the pop-up element has gone – more of which in a minute. But, until yesterday, illustrators Sarah Dennis, Holly Clifton-Brown and Jennifer Matignas Pitchers were exhibiting their work here under the title ‘The owl […]

Top table setting

Can you believe it – I’m about to post something off of one of those daisies in a jam-jar, page boys transported to the church in vintage wheelbarrows, bride’s dress first owned by a 1920s showgirl type wedding photography sites. It’s just I like the plate, is all. I’d happily eat my salmon volovants off […]

How she rolls

Remember we brought news of amateurs remaking famous works of art for website Booooooom? Well a professional artist has been executing something similar in a quest to entertain herself / do some work while on long haul flights. Only, she uses just one material. I give you artist Nina Katchadourian’s Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style. […]