Apologies to my dear readers for dropping out of sight for a while. I have been busy juggling invoices and chasing up payments. Apparently, the concept of paying people after they have supplied you with goods or services is one that is alien to some companies, as any SME owner can attest. I actually stopped […]
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 […]
