Things to do with toothpicks 2. Have I got it right? A tiny shopping basket from Liz L in Yorkshire – it’s taken us a bit of time to work out its function, but I […]
Archive | September, 2013
weird underground
An Artangel project by Daniel Silver in a huge building site on Grafton Way – once an Odeon, now a development site belonging to UCLH. The Chinese terracotta army aren’t Chinese, and the Roman busts […]
more great colour
Cousin Polly (or Cecilia) and her husband Mark were over from California, and turned up with a bunch of brilliant red flowers whose name I have gone completely blank over. They weren’t red on the […]
escape to lyme 3
Ambling back along the coast, via West Bay and Hive beach (complete with swim and crab sandwiches from the cafe). Escape from Poundbury On the way back we drove into Prince Charles’s dream village/town – […]
escape to lyme 2
The mist came down and stayed at tree-top-height all day, making the walk from Seaton along the undercliff quite weird. It’s a 7-mile stretch of cliff to the west of Lyme which had a series […]
escape to lyme 1
As probably the last possible opportunity for campervan trips this season, down to Lyme Regis for the weekend. Eleanor Coade was given a house here which she decorated lavishly with her Coade stone. It’s falling […]
drawing again
Jane R has found a drop-in life class in Hampstead. A terrific model – but drawing could do with improvement; I still manage to run out of space on the paper. I’d forgotten how exhausting […]
bird houses and other delights
As part of the London Design Festival, digits2widgets in Kentish Town opened their doors to the public. Totally fascinating technology, and a really impressive approach to its use. No trash here, just really inventive design […]
hysterical laughter
The only reaction when your blog is supposed to be a blog of the good bits exclusively. Reconnecting the dishwasher proved a bad idea. Three-quarters of an inch of water all over the floor by […]
sloth?
Where do you put a pom-pom on a sloth that has only a body, an intestinal appendage and a spiral appendage? Or nine pom-poms?