In London: Highgate Cemetery
When you’ve lived in a city your whole life, it is woefully easy to overlook the humble tour as a tourist trap. Highgate Cemetery is popular with tourists and locals alike and it’s not hard to see why...
View ArticleExhibitions in London: Fashion Rules and Victoria Revealed
Loathe to miss a dress display of any variety, my mother and I took ourselves to the Fashion Rules Exhibition in Kensington Palace to take a gander at the grandeur of the Queen, Diana, Princess of...
View ArticleMy Happy Places: Primrose Hill
When even a whisper of warmth sends we sun-starved English folk outside, Saturday’s riot of dazzling sunlight unsurprisingly tipped many Londoners onto the streets. I was by no means immune and on...
View ArticleFor the Love of Islington
Two weeks ago, I was asked by a friend to move into her pied-à-terre in order to care for her cat while she skied. Though said cat was immensely shy and resisted even a friendly stroke, I was won over...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Hyde Park, Gardening and Making Colours
The old adage of a picture being worth a thousand words is, unfortunately for we logophiles, quite true. I have therefore decided to fuse the two for a weekly diary piece. While I wish these could all...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Wimbledon & The Hut
Monday: The Monday blues drove me to this. Looking at a week that was work dense, I buckled and hit the sugar big style. The old school nature of these made me feel a little better about my binge –...
View ArticleA Lazy, Food-Filled Sunday in London
Sunday mornings: tired, lazy, lie-in-bed-reading-the-newspaper time. This week, reclining with a cup of tea proved impossible. I had made plans. Thankfully, they weren’t too taxing… Brunch at The...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Angel, Kenwood House & Rain, Rain, Rain
My recollection of bank holidays as a child runs something like this: darting through sprinklers, walking to the petrol station for ice lollies, eating fresh watermelon, listening to grass being mowed...
View ArticleLondon on a Sunday: Aperols, Exmouth Market & Clerkenwell
We Londoners have few days of warmth left. The knowledge that winter will steal the long days so very soon elevates the already precious weekend to sacrosanctity; those that are left cannot be...
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