Last week I may have mentioned how frightfully anti-social I am. After reading about this bad habit of mine (you know the one, where I run maniacally away from approaching individuals), I have been inundated with hordes of people dropping by to say that they didn’t know I wasn’t keen on people, and isn’t it […]
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I am unashamedly besotted with coffee culture, Italian culture and with the premise of a comfy place to work with great coffee and even better (read free, high speed) wifi. Being a writer tends to lend itself to a nomadic way of working but in my quest to find the perfect spot I find myself […]
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I love pretty. I love clever. But pretty, clever and sarcastic together are the trifecta! And when it’s to be found nestled in a totally unexpected place, why I get tingly all over. I hadn’t visited Damask before. Maybe it was the stuffed to the gills shop. Maybe it was the look of the place […]
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If you have taken a meander down Old Main Road in Hillcrest, stopping, as is required, at a traffic light every 100metres, you will know there is ample time to survey the surrounding landscape and shops. The large property, that belongs to Wild Fig Tree, and that has always attracted my attention is generally festooned […]
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Some design stores make you feel like a poor, slightly slow relative with trashy taste and too many donuts under your belt. Every-time you touch something the eagle eyed, hawk-nosed assistant (who looks starving by the way) looks you up and down like you just smeared dog leavings on her carpet. This is what I […]
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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Some people have all the design ability in the world. They can zero in on a piece of furniture at fifty metres and immediately know exactly where to place it in such a way that it brings an entire room together. They can track […]
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