Home & Garden

My household loves a hottie. A snuggly hot water bottle, tucked between cold bedsheets in our draughty Victorian house is an old-school treat and much loved by my digital-native sons. We’d never really thought that there was anything lacking in… Read More

Anyone who knows me IRL, will know I am a bit of a hoarder.  Coupled with the fact that M.A.D is a collector of things (shells, sea glass, beer bottles, match boxes, design books, magazines, vases – the list is… Read More

Who’d have thought that pressing flowers, something that carried the stigma of being beyond uncool when I was a teenager, would come back and be a thing in 2018? Jam Jar flowers, that’s who, run by the inspiring grown up… Read More

My current obsession with podcasts took an exciting turn last week, when the BBC invited me to meet its first ever commissioning editor of Podcasts, Jason Phipps and discover what the future holds with podcasts. How fabulously W1A!  I’m pleased… Read More

Following on from Jane’s recent post on women olderpreneurs, I was tipped of by a reader (thanks Tracy) about the revival of the Hornsey Stool, by budding female brand builder Juliet Munroe. Who remembers this cute little stool from their… Read More

After Frieze Art Fair last week I popped over to the Decorative Antiques and Textile Fair in Battersea Park. I’d always wanted to go but never had, this season I rectified that and picked up a few decorative tips. After… Read More

Just something to make you smile with your supper/ breakfast/ lunch, H&M’s Holiday film, Come Together, directed by Wes Anderson and starring Adrien Brody. Fessing up, Wes Anderson is one of my family’s favourite film directors and last year I… Read More

Over the past few years breakfast has become a ‘thing’ well brunch to be precise, with good restaurants becoming as popular in the morning as they are in the evening. The Good Egg at the end of my street has… Read More