My hero of the week is 7-year old Yamato Tanooka who survived for 6 days on his own in a bear-infested forest after his parents left him by the roadside to teach him not to throw rocks at people and cars. I was initially struck by how insane the whole premise was until I saw […]
Back in London after working away from home for a couple of weeks. I can’t tell you how glad I am to be back in London. My return trip was a nightmarish cap on the whole enterprise. The zip on my suitcase broke an hour before I was due to check in, at 8.30 am […]
It’s one of the funny quirks of compounding fragrances that one begins to allot certain fragrances to people one meets, in the same way that an artist sometimes sees people in hues and shades – a mild form of synaesthesia, I suppose. So, I was queueing up behind a lady at the chemist last week. […]
The sun is shining, the birds are twittering away, the sap is rising, and the time has come for the design obssesive’s fancy to turn to- yep, you guessed it, the spring design shows. Entire rooms filled with all the shiny, lovely distillations of human ingenuity and imagination. Shallow? Us? You bet! Before you sneer […]
To say that living through the last month has been rather effortful is an understatement. However, sometimes you just gotta keep on keeping on. So, here at AlaraApothecary we have decided to make lemonade from the surfeit of lemons. Pah to all would-be disasters- in God we trust. The spring is sprung, the grass […]
