Do you reckon you’d feel different if you’d been called something else? I mean, if you’d been called Benedict instead […]
Turning a deaf ear
I was at a talk recently where an architect took us through the idea of baugruppen*. This is the German […]
Coming home
The house next door has been demolished, leaving a rectangle of bare earth. In feng shui, that side of my […]
A proper hello
I’m a fool for a doorway. Thankfully, there are several Instagram sites that feed my addiction so I can peruse […]
Café culture
I don’t always ‘get’ cafés. They used to say in London that you were never more than six feet away […]
Give us this day
I have just finished reading David Sedaris’s book ‘Theft by finding’, which is a collection of edited highlights from his […]
Sunshine and playing favourites
Recently my friend, writer Victoria Blake, recommended my blog for a Sunshine Blogger Award. I was very touched, especially as […]
Cities that soar
The recent spate of terrorist attacks and the horrific Grenfell Tower fire made me realise just how much I still […]
Natural balance
You know the thing – a postcard showing a view of a town or a building and in the corner […]
Standing for something.
What do you think of the word iconic? Rather like the word luxury, it’s thrown around with abandon: I can […]
