NEEDLES...

If you've never spent any time with me in real life, you might not know that I'm not a jeans girl, or a trainers girl for that matter. In fact, we can rule out any kind of sportswear. This leaves me in the pleasurable position of being able to bypass trends in these things. Nike Air Max? Um, ok - go for it other people! Not me. I've got one rotting pair of Converse which I drag out if I need to

FILM ADVICE...

Hey girl, I need to ask you to go to the cinema and watch The Place Beyond the Pines. I know, it's a big ask but trust me. I would like to watch it at least three more times, and not just for the obvious reasons. Best film. Best film! A multi-layered, epic trilogy that avoids the Hollywood norm of everything having to be black and white, good or bad. It was so fantastic that it's made me go

I FORGOT TO MENTION...

I wrote this for HiP Paris.











Happy Easter! 



{Photo credit 1: sent to me the day after Valentine's Day by R, 2: Lonely Planet pocket French phrasebook page on "problems".}

LAST WEEKEND IN PARIS {AGAIN}...

My heart sank as I realised I'd drawn the short straw and got the Eurostar carriage filled with teenage French schoolchildren. But all was well - they were curiously subdued. Once in Paris I couldn't resist the flowers - €12 for FIFTY anemones (at the Red Kids market). I could never buy fifty anemones for myself, but would be very happy if someone else did.







K and I split a rotisserie

CHATS...

In Paris last weekend I was intending to see the Eileen Gray exhibition, when I kept coming across this funny poster for another exhibition: Les Chats. Yes, paintings of cats. I did walk past the Pompidou Centre, intending to stick to my Eileen plan, but it was the final day of the big Dali exhibition and the queues stretched for miles. Chats it was. I made my way over to the Quai des Orfevres

NOSTALGIA...

Read my latest existential crisis post on Paris for Harper's Bazaar here.






{Snapshot of the view from the 18.13 Eurostar from Paris to London}

READY FOR SPRING...

{Florist in rue Vieille du Temple. Astier de Villatte, Tuileries chairs, Jacquemus spring collection at The Broken Arm}