Traffic calming
Usually a patch of ground on the edge of a road is either planted with some cursory, sad-looking shrubs or nothing at all, but in Finsbury Park there are two … Read more
places
The Lanesborough
Timekeeping isn’t one of my strong points but I actually arrived outside the Lanesborough Hotel with plenty of time to spare the other day (for reasons, see my previous post). … Read more
Hedge finds
If you’ve got a privet hedge, you may as well do something fun with it and entertain passersby. In this quiet street in Highbury there are back-to-back cats and a … Read more
The Yellow Book
I met a French woman at a party earlier in the year. She was married to an English chap and said that she’d heard that in Dorset (where her husband … Read more
The Watermill
Temperatures can hit 40 degrees in summer in southern Turkey but at Die Wassermuhle near Butterfly Valley, it’s always cool. That’s because the gardens of the hotel are almost entirely … Read more
Lounging, Turkish style
‘Why stand up when you can sit down and why sit down when you can lie down?’ is one of my dad’s favourite sayings – not that I’ve ever seen … Read more
Wake up and smell the roses
When I walked along a street with Steven, Tracy and Linda the other night, I was impressed that they all stopped to smell the roses. Tracy said that the best-smelling … Read more
French fancy
I nearly took a pic of the first sweet pea of the year today (a lone flower in a pot on Harley St) but then I stumbled across this huge … Read more