Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
This is my last blog until the New Year and, as tends to happen, time and energy have run away from me. I shall sign off…
Memories on my windowsill …
I am so sad at present, finding it hard to settle my mind. Monday, I received a call telling me of the shockingly unexpected death of…
Spring Restaurant, Somerset House
Wow. Skye Gyngell’s newly opened Spring Restaurant is so pretty – from the Lyndsey Adelman chandelier in the reception area (image below), via Dinesen oak flooring through…
Federer beats Murray, O2 Arena
I saw Roger Federer beat Andy Murray, in the season-ending 2014 Masters ATP World Tour Finals, last night at the O2 Arena. Beat? Well, thrash more…
The Raw Beauty Project
Sixteen years of rolling my heels on wheels and still I am surprised – occasionally and pleasantly – by a really upbeat project normalising women and…
Visiting the Dorfman Theatre
A week or two back, I went along to a preview of Here Lies Love, the opening production at the newly refurbished Dorfman Theatre, formerly The…
The Fire Next Time …
James Baldwin is one of my favourite writers and I have read most of his work. This weekend, I was reading a review of The Fire…
Horst: Photographer of Style
I went along to the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) last weekend to see Horst: The Photography of Style exhibition, on until 4 January 2015. Rather…
Stiletto Wheels 