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London: Camden Lock Drainage by The Canal & River Trust

November 18, 2013 Zeitgeist

The end of last week was Not Good on the tech front: you may have noticed a lacuna in posting; this was caused by a back end problem with the site. Then my printer went kaput, followed by, just to cap it all, my entire iPhoto library disappearing, necessitating a long, long session at the […]

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The Big London Shoe Sale: We Need Your Help!

October 9, 2013 Zeitgeist

HUGE thanks to the extraordinarily talented Clym Evernden for designing the flyer for us. www.clymevernden.co.uk When I heard that Suzanne Edwards, the 23 year old sister of my dear friend, ex-assistant, and now wonderful fashion stylist Pip Edwards, had been paralysed from the waist down in an accident, was now confined to a wheelchair, and […]

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The Power 1000: London’s Most Influential People 2013

September 24, 2013 Zeitgeist

To be honest I found the news hard to process when I was told that I was on The Evening Standard’s London’s Most Influential People list in 2012, our extraordinary Olympic year, and when I was invited to this year’s party at Battersea Power Station last Thursday I presumed it was as party filler, having […]

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The Pig Idea!

September 1, 2013 Zeitgeist

The Pig Idea is one of the simple ideas that is brilliant in its simplicity: change EU rules to allow pigs to be fed pig swill made from leftover food, as they have for millennia, instead of stripping rainforest land to grow soya for pig feed, and forcing hard pressed farmers to buy it. So […]

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Marks & Spencer Coronation & Celebration ShortbreadTins

August 14, 2013 Zeitgeist

I wouldn’t call myself an ardent Royalist but I do love a bit of celebratory memorabilia — my 1981 Royal Wedding mugs are a treasured possession, and I was jubilant when sent the the target=“_blank”>Harvey Nichols Diamond Jubilee Lunch Box. So I was more than happy to see M&S launch a series of rather lovely commemorative […]

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Farewell DOMA and Prop 8

June 27, 2013 Zeitgeist

(Me and my darling boys outside the Soho Grand, Fall 2008) There was some crying in the middle of Dalston Junction this afternoon when I realised that the Supreme Court of the United States had overturned DOMA — the Defense of Marriage Act. Whilst any move forward for the civil rights movement gets me emotional, […]

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Commander Chris Hadfield on the International Space Station: SO many kinds of wonderful

May 12, 2013 Zeitgeist

I’ve been following the Tweets of Commander Chris Hadfield, commander of Expedition 35 on the International Space Station with growing awe. It’s been an incredible personal insight into both the world of an astronaut, and our world, as seen from his photographs of Earth from space. He’s about to leave the Space Station, and today […]

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Rummaging in the family archive

May 2, 2013 Zeitgeist

This is  one of my favourite family photos, which I dug up a few weekends ago in my mother’s attic. It’s rare to find action shots in family albums: usually they are posed, with everyone staring fixedly at the camera lens, whether on the beach or in a studio.

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LLG Food: CAKE CAKE CAKE! I’m planning a charity bake sale this Friday

April 30, 2013 LLG Food

I always try to support MS Awareness Week in a creative way that provokes interest: one year I made so many chocolate cakes that I lost count, & sold them by the slice in the Vogue House boardroom to the Condé Nast staff in aid of The MS Society Cake Bake (doubly joyful: feeding people […]

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MS Awareness Week 2013: My primer on MS

April 28, 2013 Zeitgeist

Monday marks the start of MS Awareness Week 2013. I first ran this post in 2008, when the blog was little more than a year old, and then again last year, so I hope those of you who have been reading for a while will forgive the repetition of a subject which is so close […]

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