Popped into the National Portrait Gallery this weekend and was bowled over by these portraits by Susan Aldworth.
With my newfound interest in stitching, I loved this idea featured on PSFK: a stitched restaurant.
The Stylist has a set of interesting city guides featured on their website.
And on the topic of cities, they continue to fascinate me, and I am promising myself to deep dive into this piece on William “Holly” White’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.
Loneliness kills (great article with loads of links to original research).
Swissmiss highlighted Like Knows Like, a set of short documentaries about what inspires people working in the creative industries, must dive into these too.
Went to Balthazar London and had waffles for breakfast. Really like the room, staff were friendly and helpful, can’t complain about anything. And yet I wasn’t bowled over. I still prefer The Delaunay for breakfast.
Books read: 1. John Lanchester’s ‘What we talk about when we talk about the Tube’, part of the Penguin series about London tube and underground lines. Transport nerd in me loved it, full of stats and nerdy facts.
Amount of directions given to people in the street last week: 6. An all-time high even for me.
“Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” (Julia Child)