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Home Sweet Home, Latvia's Finest, Great Grinders, Stone Cheese Boards, Utterly Buttery & Flirting With 'Heart Of Darkness'!

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Home Sweet Home, Latvia's Finest, Great Grinders, Stone Cheese Boards, Utterly Buttery & Flirting With 'Heart Of Darkness'! Good Morning! Well, apart from a shocking virus exacerbated by jet lag, I am delighted to be home in my own bed with the lovely Lola! I am even happy to see the rain - although I doubt this feeling will last!  Travel is a wonderful thing but it also makes you appreciate home and I am very happy to be back in London. Shop Now - Red Clay Collection - From £31.50 Shop Now - Eclipse Collection - From £69 Yesterday I was delighted to welcome back our wonderful Latvian potters. Gunters and his sister run an inspirational pottery using local clay from the nearby Lode mines and are very environmentally sensitive so all waste is re-used in the creative process. Shapes are simple and this season I have concentrated on their beautiful curved medium bowls and a larger round bowl all in a choice of white, s...

East Dulwich - The Musical! I'm Ready For My Close-Up Mr Tafforin! Sumptuous Silk Velvets, Murano Glass Earrings, Leather Oven Mitts & Bathing Beauties

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East Dulwich - The Musical! I'm Ready For My Close-Up Mr Tafforin! Sumptuous Silk Velvets, Murano Glass Earrings, Leather Oven Mitts & Bathing Beauties Greetings from Atlanta - How Y'all doin? We are here in the capital of Georgia to celebrate the talent of my best friend of 35 years, Terry Ronald, a native of East Dulwich whose first novel (Becoming Nancy) has been turned into a big budget musical by one of the most prestigious producers on Broadway, Mr Jerry Mitchell !  The story is set in East Dulwich in the late 1970's and is a coming of age tale with a big heart and we all went to opening night on Wednesday at the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre ( https://alliancetheatre.org ). It was a magical and very emotional experience and slightly surreal to hear the ensemble cast singing a song entitled 'East Dulwich, London, SE22' so far from home! If you are going to be anywhere near Atlanta in the coming month I thoroughly recommend ...

Porch Envy, Leather Laundry Bins, The Big Squeeze, Giant Grape Lamps, Brick Moulds & Chapati Boards!

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Porch Envy, Leather Laundry Bins, The Big Squeeze, Giant Grape Lamps, Brick Moulds & Chapati Boards! We arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, just after hurricane Dorian had swept out of town and were very happy to see that the damage appeared to be minimal. Neat piles of branches and a few sandbags the only evidence that she had passed through - they are very organised in these parts! The Southern states are sub-tropical and I have never felt humidity like it - the air is stifling and I am just about getting used to feeling damp every minute! The architecture in the historic district of downtown Charleston is stunning - huge wooden houses with wrap-around porches on every level, supported by neo-classical columns, abound. Substantial yet elegant, I definitely have porch envy!   Shop Now - Leather Laundry Basket - £235.00 Just before I left we received our first consignment of leather laundry baskets, which are a luxury but I beg your...