White bed linen

Do you remember the film Orlando (1992) when Tilda Swinton wakes in a bed of pure white linen? Well that movie changed my taste in bed linen forever. I walked out of the cinema and from that moment...

Happy meat

Neil put the shin of beef on the weighing machine and punched in the price. “The price comes down for this in December. Which is good for cooks like you.” We’ve eaten all the “ready meals” that I...

Fantasy Gallery

Print GalleryI’ve always been interested in art. Our summers as teenagers were not spent on the beach – but in Paris. Where we spent most of our time in galleries. Trips to London would include...

Dusk

I love the light in a lot of Carel Weight’s paintings. He often favours dusk – the time the French call day for night – the brief drift of minutes when everything seems to shimmer in a strange...