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teacups, cupcakes
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A little bit of my life, from the cakes I'm baking in my temperamental oven to the floral teacups I'm buying in the charity shops of Britain...
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You must be somewhere in London // You must be loving your life in the rain

This is what London looks like in the rain. I wasnt at work on Thursday, so instead went to Yayoi Kusama at the Tate Modern (go if you can, the Infinity Mirror Room alone is worth the trip - it ...

12 may 12

Try not to wonder what the weather will be

Im going to say it, the weather is getting me down. Im not usually one of those people that fret about whether well get a proper summer or not, and I certainly dont dislike the rain. I grew up in a h...

10 may 12

London Love: The Modern Pantry

47 - 48 St Johns Square, EC1V 4JJOk buttercups, so this is another London brunch spot recommendation. But I like brunch. I like brunch on Saturdays, with the weekend stretching before you, or how bru...

24 apr 12

Kew

It was a Saturday afternoon. The Friday before had been horrible, a complete meltdown in an assessment which I should have breezed, then a late finish, last in the office, eyes blurring behind the co...

17 apr 12

London Love: The Zetter Townhouse

49 - 50 St Johns Square, EC1V 4JJThe Zetter Townhouse had been on my to visit list for a long while. Friends had been and recommended it, Id read good reviews, but Clerkenwell just seemed a bit off t...

07 apr 12

A Birthday

Way back at the start of March I had a birthday. It was a Friday, I had too much work to do to take the day off, but we had breakfast in the park beforehand and afterwards there were cocktails at Sky...

06 apr 12

Richmond, first sun

Weve had so many days of warm sunshine recently, but I think this one might have been the first. The last weekend in February. In the pub the night before, making friends with inquisitive dogs, spill...

26 mar 12

Cambridge, a return

Mid February. For one night we return to Cambridge, along with most of those in our year group. Leave work early on the Friday, take the train up. Grab hot chocolates in our favourite cafe where we u...

15 mar 12

26 February, Columbia Road

I think perhaps that there is no better way to spend a sunny Sunday morning than wandering through Columbia Road flower market. Especially when there are fat bunches of Dutch tulips to be had.

13 mar 12

London Love: Maltby Street Market

Maltby Street, LondonIt is almost the weekend people. I have that wonderful Thursday night feeling, only a day between me and Friday 5pm. It has been a hectic week at work, tomorrow wont be any bette...

24 feb 12

Sunday Afternoons

This time last week Id just built a snowman.

12 feb 12

January

January came and went surprisingly painlessly. Normally I find that it drags, slowly. Skiing for a week took a big chunk of it. Hard to feel low with the wide open sky and snow covered mountains. So ...

10 feb 12

Mountains, snow

We got the Eurostar from St Pancras, to wake up in the mountains and the snow. Sounds romantic, is actually less so when you factor in the upright, uncomfortable seats, fellow passengers playing Emin...

30 jan 12

London Love: Bills

St Martins Courtyard off Longacre, WC2E 9ABBills is good for breakfast. I have also been assured by friends that it is good for lunch and dinner too, but I started with breakfast, and it was goo-ood....

25 jan 12

Happy New Year Everybody

(Belatedly)So, 2012. Here you are, wholeheartedly so. Aware that we are well into the New Year, that once again the photos are stacking up on my hard drive, the words tumbling over each in my head. B...

23 jan 12

Christmas

Oh Christmas. Dreamt about for weeks, sitting at my desk, longing for the last day at work, boarding the train, heading home for a week of doing very little but eating, drinking, spending time with t...

02 jan 12

December misc.

Suddenly it was December and the leaves on the trees had been replaced with lights. Movember moustaches had been shaved off and the fast approaching Christmas period was never far from anyones though...

24 dec 11

Fondue Night

Saturday December 3rd. A few friends, a couple of jugs of Snowballs, and a lot of melted cheese.

23 dec 11

London Love: Happiness Forgets

8-9 Hoxton Square, N1 6NUI am almost loathe to share this next one, because it was just so very lovely. But, it is Christmas (well, nearly), a time for sharing, and it may be that you are looking for...

08 dec 11

The Last of the Autumn

{or, how many different types of fungi can you spot on a single walk?}M and I walk up to Hampstead, Saturday morning two weekends ago. Grab a flat white (him) and a hot chocolate (me) from Ginger and...

30 nov 11

Autumn weekends V

Then we are into mid November and everywhere you look men are growing moustaches. We go to some engagement drinks near Fleet Street, then afterwards on to a Oceans Eleven (1960 version) party in Lond...

27 nov 11

London Love: Mien Tay

122 Kingsland Road, London, E2 8DPSecond up for my London Love posts had to be food related, this time heading out East. I only discovered the string of Vietnamese restaurants on the Kingsland Road l...

25 nov 11

Autumn weekends IV: Bonfire Weekend

Then suddenly were into November, the clocks have gone back, and there are explosions in the night sky. I take a long weekend for Bonfire Night. Head to Norfolk on Thursday after work drinks with som...

24 nov 11

Halloween

Halloween weekend. Lots and lots of pumpkin. In pies, in cupcakes, in boxes at Maltby Street market. A Frida Kahlo themed night at the ever fantastic Ms Marmite Lovers, tamales, salsa, black beans, n...

20 nov 11

London Love: The Hide Bar

39-45 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3XFA new feature Im going to trial. Each week, or more likely a bit less frequently, a little snapshot of London, my beloved city. A track of all the places that ...

17 nov 11

Cheese, Beer, Toast

Thursday 27th October. Drizzle and wet leaves on shiny pavements. A Cheese and Beer Tasting evening at Toast, Notting Hill branch. Inside, warm and dry and welcoming, a contrast to the night outside....

15 nov 11

Autumn weekends III

Still working my way through October photos...we seem to have had such beautiful weather this autumn that I have hundreds and hundreds of photos, capturing the light through the turning leaves, all t...

13 nov 11

Autumn weekends II

Mid October. A gloriously sunny Saturday. We breakfast on these raspberry and ricotta wholewheat scones, then decide to get out the house and actually do something, go somewhere. We head to Richmond,...

04 nov 11

Autumn weekends I

A Northamptonshire weekend just as the air began to feel cooler, and the leaves began to turn. The structurally beautiful arches in St Pancras, leaving the capital past the canal and buildings and gl...

29 oct 11

"What did I do wrong?!"

...wailed my minimalist, modern design loving father when I brought this kitsch beauty home (carnations added by me - but I think they complete the look, no?). It seems opinion is a little split on m...

19 oct 11

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