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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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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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.
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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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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