My new baby is enjoying the new fluffy bedding as much as I am it seems. Yesterday’s Ikea trip was exhausting, but totally worth it in the end. It feels like the bed has been upgraded to a new standard. Today’s been a busy day of cleaning, scrubbing and getting old quilts and sheets packed away for Oxfam. There’s still… Read More

Thank God for Fridays! I’m dog tired, aching all over, but I am determined to stay awake at least past midnight because… well, because I can. Because this is my time. If there’s one thing (apart from commuting) that I detest about an office job, it’s the way it robs me of my nights. I love night time, I’m at… Read More

I wore a dress (newsflash!) in the hopes that it would distract from the dirty hair… I’ve had this dress for about two or three years and it’s never felt ‘right’. This morning I had a huge ‘why is everything in my wardrobe too colourful and flowery’-crisis and my eyes were drawn to the calming greyness of the dress…. Dress:… Read More

Someone living on the ground floor flat of this one estate I pass on my walk between work and Waterloo station, has really pulled out all the guns in their little bit of garden (I don’t actually think it’s their garden, just this bit of communal grass in front of their front door). There is a multitude of flowers in… Read More

Some mornings you just end up throwing on the most insane combinations of clothes… Scarf: M&S;Long sleeved tee: Fashion WorldTop: TorridJeans: EvansShoes: Gola via eBay

There was a pretty impressive looking double rainbow over London last night.

While I was on holiday my copies of Francesca Lia Block’s book Echo, which has my picture on the cover, had arrived. It was nice seeing the finished article, even if the sight of my own fizzog makes me cringe a little bit…

I’m back at home, feeling relaxed but also a little beaten down and broken. On the morning of the last full day in Finland I woke up, stretched, heard an almighty ‘crunch’ sound and felt pain like no other. It felt rather like my head had come unstuck from my neck. After that I pretty much couldn’t move. We had… Read More

Weird to be back in Helsinki… seems like the end of summer somehow.