I recall being tipsily slumped on my sofa on a wet winter night in January this year. I was trying to entertain myself by reading a vintage book on British hauntings and mysterious places. Sutton Hoo came up again and again and as I had already heard of the strange circumstances surrounding  its discovery, I [...]

Sunday was occupied by a trip to Greenham Common with some friends. It was close with a typically warm August sun poking between the  tumbling clouds. A menagerie of Crickets, insects and floating seeds made the thick air vibrate and  even though the sounds of light aircraft and grazing cattle mingled with all this, it [...]

I have no shame in admitting that I’m English (I can see my Scottish mates rolling their eyes right now when I say that… heh heh). Although, I have to say that my personal hierarchy of loyalty goes in the following order: I’m a Yorkshireman first, then I’m British and English last. But why English [...]

Last week a colleague placed a stack of old journals and design magazines outside his office for anyone to take if they so wished. As usual, I was late to the feast and discovered only a cursory stack of heavily thumbed, two year-old Architect’s Journals remaining. A good read, but not for my already burdened [...]

May Bank Holiday. Britain. There’s never much chance of the weather being great for this weekend, but at least today the sun was shining on a little corner of London for the afternoon. Even if it was irritatingly nippy out. I decided a long overdue visit to the Chelsea Physic Garden was in order when [...]

One of the oddities of living in a city is that sometimes your thought patterns are so distorted and bombarded by everything around you that your senses occasionally back-pedal a little and wrap themselves around a focal point that you have previously dismissed as the mundane. With a cock of the head and a modulation [...]

At the weekend, I spent a fair amount of time playing with Lego. It actually rather alarmed me just how easy my brain fell so quickly into the mindset of a 7 year old… First there was my eye’s ranging manically over the tumultuous heap of multi-coloured bricks, scanning for that all-important flat sixer brick [...]

I’ve not added a post for over a week becasue I have been visiting a friend in South Korea and have just arrived home with some seriously hardcore  jet-leg and a suitcase full of madness. It seems so different here – muted and ordered. There’s none of the chaos of a modern Asian city and [...]