Im tentatively blogging at indiaknight.tumblr.com , for the very shallow reason that I prefer the way it looks. Unfortunately, I cant import any of the content of this blog, so you may want ...
This is so great. Dave Eggers started a shop in San Francisco called the Pirate Store, aka 826 Valencia. It stocked all kinds of piratical goods - marvellous enough it itself. But! if you went t...
Here is a marvellous Paris Review profile of Bricktop, née Ada Smith in 1894, legendary saloonkeeper and African-American performer in Paris some time before Josephine Baker. In Paris, she dro...
And heres some bedding from Horrockses. The label used to make fabulous dresses in the 1940s and 1950s (see here)&nbs p;and now a revival is underway, using the original designs - bed linen,...
I was moaning on Twitter the other day about hideous lightbulbs - the big stores are stopping selling old-fashioned ones tomorrow - that make every room look like a particularly bleak and demoralisin...
Congratulations to Quadrille publishers for its fantastic New Voices in Food series of cookbooks, which are wonderful and which Ive been cooking from for the past fortnight ("Comfort and Spice...
This is the funniest, sharpest, truest thing anyones written about Twitter. It is incredibly funny - proper "Oh no, I made a noise like a pig" funny - and because she doesnt pull any punches ...
London never ceases to amaze me. Theres an absolutely enormous - 700 stalls - antiques market at Kempton racecourse (just past Twickenham/Richmond) that takes place twice a month and has been there f...
For Luna sell fantastic, Fifties-y swimsuits and bikinis that work best if you have tits and an arse, that are really well-made and that are *incredibly* flattering - I mean, optical illusion fl...
I know I drone on about Mimi Berrys bags with wearying frequency, but this one - its called Big Mae - really particularly floats my boat, and the boats of a number of people whove stopped me and...
If Id been blogging properly Id have told you about this weeks ago, but anyway. Instagram is an iPhone-only camera app thats like Twitter in picture form, and the pictures are all beautiful because y...
My God, this poor blog, so neglected. I shall make amends. Meanwhile, its Fathers Day this Sunday, and these bracelets are lovely (I blogged about the lady-version here) and will get to you in t...
My favourite royal wedding souvenir so far (aside from the £200 Roberts radio). £1.25 from everywhere. Permalink
This stuff - Shu Uemura Stage Performer - is amazing. I had a really terrible looking-like-death emergency the other day, so I ran into a conveniently situated Space NK and asked them to fi...
Ive been thinking for ages that Id like to do a blog post about favourite cookery books -- the ones held together by food splodges and bits of yellowing Sellotape - and I will at...
Useful little leaflet (PDF) from Hermès. Permalink
Overheard on the Titanic print, from $50, by Austin Kleon, who took an article from the New York Times and blacked most of it out with a Sharpie. (Reminds me of that Edna St Vincent Millay poem - Saf...
Sweetview sells prints of London boroughs using landmarks locals, rather than tourists, will recognise. Thats Tower Hamlets at the top - Columbia Road on a Sunday, and Lambeth under it. Theres g...
Living Architecture is a project that gets fantastic architects to build fantastic houses, and then rents them out as holiday lets so that people can experience what its like living somewhere al...
I was in a total frenzy of misery/fury last week, when Sky Atlantic launched on Sky only (I have Virgin). The channel is the UK home of HBO and full of everything youd ever want to watch - ...
Tutorial showing you how to make a cake with a heart in the middle. Found via Black *Eiffel. Permalink
You can buy bags of customised M&Ms from their UK website, with a short message printed on each sweetie, e.g. for Valentines day. Picture complet ely fails to illustrate the personalised...
Playplax was invented by art student Patrick Rylands in 1966 and became a bestselling toy. Its basically interlocking plastic squares that children can turn into anything they like; also, its beautif...
Writing about wine/drinks without sounding either unbelievably arsey or off-puttingly techy and specialist seems to me to be a quasi-impossible task, but Victoria Moore - formerly of the Guardian, no...
The genius musician Edwyn Collins had two cerebral haemorrhages in 2005. When he initially recovered consciousness, the only words he could say were yes, no and Grace Maxwell (his wife -&nb...
If youre Christmas shopping online and dont want to limit yourself to UK sites - and who does, when US ones have excitingly unfamiliar stuff and do the holiday season so well and so attractively? -&n...
The days of skidding and falling on ones arse are upon us. So: These are rigger boots, i.e. the boots construction workers wear (and riggers, obviously). Theyre comfortable and incredibly tough - you...
Brr, nippy. Here are some warm hats. I want the bear one, despite not being a toddler. Tragic, really, but the appeal of stuff with ears is overwhelmingly great. These are by Marie Mercié, from Brown...
Red Cornishware - as opposed to blue - was briefly around in the 1950s, but it was difficult to reproduce to the proper colour depth and consistency, and the range was dropped. The f...
Heres my new novel, which is officially out next Thursday but which is now trickling into bookshops and in stock on Amazon. Heres a review of it from this weeks Spectator. I should really s...
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