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On arriving in Berlin for the first time, Aggie and I went straight to the flea-market at Mauerpark. It was a beautiful but very chilly day. We found this photo album which may have inspired our next trip. I can't quite decide if they flew all the way to Nessebar on the Black Sea, or whether [...]

Some lovely pics from the Gentle Author's blog.  Richard & Cosmo Wise’s pop up shop is at 68a Cheshire St where all the clothes are between seventy and one hundred and thirty years old. until Nov 20th. Better get down there.

What were they thinking? Are these the new hero products?

Here are some pics of how it looked before Rupert re-made it, as well as another little idea that he whipped up the other night. This is all at the Kings Hall in Hackney.

I had these enormous sloes in the freezer. I picked them at the beginning of september but didn't have the jars to fit them in. They looked really nice as they defrosted. Now there are 4 litres of Sloe Gin getting themselves ready for Christmas.

I knew that I wanted to have our new shop on Golborne road from about a year ago - it's such a great mix of people and shops and feels so busy all the time. We opened a week ago and all the neighbours have been in to introduce themselves and give their opinions as [...]

A couple of weekends ago, prompted by a story about the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, in the Observer, my mum and daughter decided to dress my dad up. There is an uncanny similarity, but since he's a pretty committed atheist we had to make do with his super cool (in the 70s) neck chain [...]