• Live

    Foggy

    It’s been really foggy for a couple of days. Lot’s of flights have been cancelled and people inconvienced. I quite like it, it feels very English – a proper pea-souper. It makes…

  • Eat

    Cottage pie day

    Sunday the first of November was cottage pie day. I always call it shepherds pie, but I think technically it has to be lamb to be a shepherds pie. Anyway, we made…

  • Live

    Celebration week

    This week we had multiple celebrations. Madge and I have been married 10 years. 10 years! A whole fucking decade. It’s been a blur of cocktails and business and hotels and motorbikes…

  • Eat

    Chambers of Flavour

    Last week we went on the most amazing ‘multi dimensional dining experience’ – the Chambers of Flavour, run by Gingerline. I was really looking forward to it, even though the whole premise…

  • Travel

    Barcelona hotels: The Ohla

    As you know, I love a hotel, me, so was excited about the two we had booked for our stay in Barcelona. We were only there for 6 days, but the first…

  • Live

    Happy 90th Birthday Nan!

    On Sunday it was my Nan’s 90th Birthday. Since being released from hospital back in June, she has settled into her new home at a residential care centre. My Mum and Aunt…

  • Live

    Time out at Alexander House

    A few weeks ago I realized that I’d have a full day and evening to myself on 2 August, when @madgie was cycling the Prudential 100 Ride London. Rather than waste the…

  • Eat

    Dinner at Foxlow, Clerkenwell

    We stayed in London on Wednesday night and decided to try Foxlow in St John Street. I didn’t know anything about it other than its owned by the same people that own…

  • Play

    A Concert for Alice

    Almost a year ago, West London teenager Alice gross went missing. Alice was a student at my friend Ollie’s Forecast Academy, a Saturday performing arts school. A while back in the Spring,…