Cupboard Love

Cupboard Love

I remember my grandmother’s farmhouse kitchen fondly. As children we were regularly roped in to help with chores. If we weren’t outside weeding the garden, or feeding the pigs, we’d be at the kitchen table podding peas, while she busied herself at...
Couture House

Couture House

Shortly after writing my last post, I watched a BBC4 documentary on the couturier, Valentino. The film was the “fly on the wall” type, following him over a period of a few weeks or months, and recording him at work on a new collection, interspersed with...