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Moving platforms 17 Sep 2011 | 07:05 am
I'm tentatively blogging at indiaknight.tumblr.com, for the very shallow reason that I prefer the way it looks. Unfortunately, I can't import any of the content of this blog, so you may want to bookma...
The Ministry of Stories/Monster supplies 10 Sep 2011 | 11:17 pm
This is so great. Dave Eggers started a shop in San Francisco called the Pirate Store, aka 826 Valencia. It stocked all kinds of piratical goods - marvellous enough it itself. But! if you went through...
Something nice to read 1 Sep 2011 | 12:41 am
Here is a marvellous Paris Review profile of Bricktop, née Ada Smith in 1894, 'legendary saloonkeeper' and African-American performer in Paris some time before Josephine Baker. In Paris, she drove F. ...
Horrockses bedding 31 Aug 2011 | 10:25 pm
And here's some bedding from Horrockses. The label used to make fabulous dresses in the 1940s and 1950s (see here) and now a revival is underway, using the original designs - bed linen, cushions and b...
Lighting salvation 31 Aug 2011 | 09:43 pm
I was moaning on Twitter the other day about hideous lightbulbs - the big stores are stopping selling old-fashioned ones tomorrow - that make every room look like a particularly bleak and demoralising...
More cookbooks 27 Jul 2011 | 09:41 pm
Congratulations to Quadrille publishers for its fantastic 'New Voices in Food' series of cookbooks, which are wonderful and which I've been cooking from for the past fortnight ("Comfort and Spice" isn...
How To Leave Twitter 5 Jul 2011 | 10:32 pm
This is the funniest, sharpest, truest thing anyone's written about Twitter. It is incredibly funny - proper "Oh no, I made a noise like a pig" funny - and because she doesn't pull any punches (this i...
Best antiques/vintage in London 29 Jun 2011 | 12:27 am
London never ceases to amaze me. There's an absolutely enormous - 700 stalls - antiques market at Kempton racecourse (just past Twickenham/Richmond) that takes place twice a month and has been there f...
Swimsuits 24 Jun 2011 | 09:53 pm
For Luna sell fantastic, Fifties-y swimsuits and bikinis that work best if you have tits and an arse, that are really well-made and that are *incredibly* flattering - I mean, optical illusion flatteri...
More bags 19 Jun 2011 | 03:51 am
I know I drone on about Mimi Berry's bags with wearying frequency, but this one - it's called Big Mae - really particularly floats my boat, and the boats of a number of people who've stopped me and as...
