March 31st, 2010

I just spent a fab long weekend with my friend Summer in London.  Fab.  We planned to go to the Victoria and Albert museum.  We did not go.  We planned to go to the Tate Modern.  We did not go.  We planned to go to Kew Gardens.  We did not go.  We did absolutely nothing [...]

March 24th, 2010

Well, spring is here.
I won’t say “finally”, because everybody says that.  But what I will say is that it’s about bloody time.  For god’s sake.  Never has a winter been so miserable.  It’s not the cold: it’s never the cold.  It’s the literal days weeks months of greyness.  Of darkness.  Someone tell me why I [...]

March 16th, 2010

Last weekend I decided I needed a new handbag.  When I announced this to Adam, he sighed and went looking for a piece of leather to bite.
You see, I bought a new bag last year.  Last year’s quest lasted over three weeks and included seven visits to various hawkers of handbags in The Hague.  It [...]