Percy & Reed Spitalfields

Never let it be said that I am afraid of looking unglamorous on this blog. That being said, when one is sitting with foils on one’s head in one of the nicest hair salons in London,  I don’t care so much about the anti-glamour. Percy & Reed, whose  properly excellent hair products you may already know, are also a small but growing group of hair salons, owned by the brilliant Adam Reed and Paul Percival. The first was on London’s Great Portland Street, and they have recently opened a branch on Adam’s home doorstep in Spitalfields.

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Mushroom asparagus mozzarella baguette sandwich

We’re right in the middle of asparagus season, and I am eating every spear I can lay my greedy little paws on. Whether I’ve bought it to cook at home (cheap Spanish bundles for a few quid on the Camden market stall by the station,  or the good English stuff from M&S and the local greengrocers),  or am ordering it in restaurants, I’m eating it at least twice a day.

I LOVE asparagus.

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shoe closets

Along with vacuum packing all my woolly sweaters, coats, hats and scarves last week, I had a very enjoyable time switching over my shoes. Because there’s not much storage space in my London apartment, I keep out of season shoes in a huge box, hidden away in a cupboard. It’s like shoe Christmas doing the switchover, re-discovering the pairs I packed away some six months previously.

shoe closets

I also add in my new season buys to the mix and it always makes me laugh to see the difference between the two sets of shoes. In winter my footwear is almost all black, relieved only by the odd pop of scarlet or pink (photo above*). In summer I retire nearly all the black pairs, bar a few pairs of pointy toe stilettos.

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Accessories: Fans

May 22, 2013 · 4 comments

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I have a thing for fans. I’ve been collecting them for years, and still can;t understand why they aren’t used more often. Even though the British climate is so grim, theatres, the tube, over heated restaurants are all places I’ve been glad to smugly whip out a fan from my collection (photo below) and create a gentle breeze around me.

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Brunch at La Fromagerie to celebrate Tori Haschka’s book: A Suitcase and a Spatula

May 21, 2013 Books & writers

I usually spend weekends splitting my time between writing and emailing from my nest of a bed, the park for a spot of dog walking and, hmmm, that’s about it. So imagine my horror  surprise when I realised I had three consecutive things going on last Saturday. Thank goodness they were three things I really wanted to […]

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Home: Vacuum bags

May 20, 2013 LLG Fashion

(Pre-vacuumed bags of tights, hats & gloves, woolly sweaters) My London flat is perfectly Sasha-sized, but it does have one flaw:  there is barely any storage. It’s all on one level, so there’s no under stair cupboard for stashing STUFF, and there are only a few above head height cupboards in the living room. So, […]

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The Daily Beauty: Toni & Guy Glamour Serum Drops

May 20, 2013 LLG Beauty

My hair is somewhat of a disaster at the moment. It badly needs a cut and a colour perk-up, but I just haven’t had the time  - or rather when I have had, I’ve chosen to nap. Napping is my favourite activity, bar none. Maybe someone could  invent a hairdressing station that let you have […]

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Guest Blog: Matt Rudd, author of The English: a Field Guide

May 20, 2013 Books & writers

Those of you with highly acute memories will remember that Matt Rudd has contributed to this ‘ere blog before. You may also remember that I have referred to him as a ‘friend’. I could of course let slip the information that we met for the very first time when he was an intern at the […]

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LLG Giveaway: 1950s CHANEL No.5 Advertisement & Exhibition Catalogue

May 20, 2013 Competitions & Giveaways

Two weeks ago I travelled to Paris to visit the No.5 Culture CHANEL exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo. To celebrate the exhibition I am giving away this this fabulous 1950s CHANEL No 5 advertisement from my own collection.

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The Daily Beauty: OPI Atomic Orange Nail Polish

May 20, 2013 LLG Beauty

I don’t care that spring, let alone summer seems to have disappeared this year. I *will* have cheerful, bright toenails regardless. OPI Atomic Orange Nail Polish Sandals by Whistles (present)

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