My only claim to anything News of the World-y is a story I wrote in 2008 as a staff reporter for a London news agency. It was about gigantic eco-offensive sunlamps used at Emirates Stadium to keep th...
ta-dah! Swim label Paolita has turned a bit of styling into a style for next year: the turban headband. This is wicked news because when Paolita first came on the scene in my life in February, I l...
In February I covered the lively season launch of new swim and beachwear label PAOLITA by Anna Paola. Click here for a refresher. Now to celebrate the label's first birthday PAOLITA is throwing...
And she wore her hair half-up half-down like I did. We both carried a dainty bouquet of small white flowers. When I got married in November 2007 I thought it would be about a year and a half before t...
Recently after a long break from having William Curley chocolates in my life I bought a couple of truffles on a swift dash through Richmond, took them home, sat down on the kitchen stool and took a b...
He’s a farmer now, but for decades my father was a high-flying international businessman. Even now he is frequently asked – “is there any country you haven’t been to?” and “what’s the most beautiful...
And James Franco. Sunday is the Oscars and my laptop is acting stinking peculiar especially when it comes to images and image editing, so I’m gunna hold off even more ridiculously with my London Fas...
Odalisque in Yellow Swim and beachwear designer Anna Paola launched her first collection at ORA in London last night. Paolita's beach hoody was selected for the goodie bags at last year’s MTV ...
When Barbara Keal first showed her hats in public a few people were, as she recalls it, disgusted. “One woman said to me, oh they’re amazing, but I’d feel so guilty. She thought they were real - that...
I've been FAWNing over something. Bambi was the inspiration for these divine deer + doe figurines in the magical window and in-store displays at Marilyn Moore in Barnes. But it immediately remin...
I did actually, read it somewhere that she writes poetry and that she and Mick used to talk poetry and philosophy at night when they couldn't sleep. Or something like that. As part of the Peters...
Beauty is dangerous because. Mustard. Chips, bottle of red wine. THE NEEN-ner CHATS 1/3 Where: Balan's, White City When: September 2010 Why: Nina Oz-bound ... PERSONAL STYLE. Me: Sometimes we ...
It makes some peoples’ stomachs turn, but I cherish the heavily malted air that wafts down corridors of East Sheen and Barnes when it’s brewing time at Stag brewery in Mortlake. Some days it’s so str...
Barnes and East Sheen residents won’t have to travel to east London to witness all the Olympic sporting action come 2012. For one event it looks like we’ll just have to roll out of bed. As recently r...
Finally I got round to phoning the council to tell them how much I love the black signs that popped up in parks across the borough a couple of years ago, instantly smartening up even the bleakest of ...
If I said it were possible - in Barnes - to get tea and toast for £1 would you believe me? Served in a cup and saucer with a little teapot and a pitcher of milk on the side? I wouldn’t believe me eit...
As a lapsed long-distance runner, I know of two simple things that quickly improve fitness and speed, even if you’re in the category I now fit into, recreational jogger. One is running with other peo...
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