First posted Oct 2015 When you're too tired to cook or shop and need to rely on a larder staple for a quick meal, this is one of my favourite fall backs. It's great loaded into baked potatoes, with buttered crackers, on healthy celery, or to jazz up cold roast chicken or a pack of... Continue Reading →
#Podcast: From Documentaries to Design, On The Sofa with Monique Tollgard
Earlier this year when asked if I fancied recording a series of interior design podcasts by Sofa Workshop, although I love to chat, the invitation made me a bit nervous. I'm not a trained journo with long honed skills in eliciting information out of other humans. That makes journos sound a little like SAS interrogators... Continue Reading →
Treasure Tingle: A Giant Salvaged No 3
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of hosting a session entitled "How To Make A Stylish Salvage Home" on the Cheshire Showground at the Arthur Swallows Fair. Let me tell you - no mean feat with no projector or electricity in a force 10 gale. All power to Northern grit and a tent... Continue Reading →
Seafood Si: The Salt Room, Brighton
There are no two ways about it. On a grey Wednesday lunchtime, spending fifty notes on a hot crustacean platter is pretty decadent. Maybe not if you're an on-expenses food critic or a lady who lunches, but for a couple of jobbing builders in Brighton for a work trip, it's one of those moments. Are... Continue Reading →
#Podcast: On The Sofa ‘Owning Your Rental’ with Topology London
Clearly a subject very close to my heart, as a landlord passionate about happy tenants and gorgeous interiors, 'owning your rental' is a hot take for renters who crave personalisation. In this episode of our On The Sofa podcast series I chat with Amy, below left, and Athina from style duo Topology London, award winning... Continue Reading →
Ceramic Wallpaper? Yep, It’s Officially A Thing
They don't call me the wallpaper wizard for nothing but even I had my decorating socks blown off today when I came across this... Ceramic wallpaper. Yep, you heard me right. Ceramic wallpaper. It's a never ending adventure of pattern and texture in the Manchester HQ of Casa Ceramica. I've bought lots of gorgeousness from... Continue Reading →
Seafood Si: The Lobster Shack, Whitstable
Every family has it's favourite phrases don't they? There's a very apt one here at Moregeous HQ which begins with my darling and long lost Mia Cat, passes onto Builder Cat and is also totally applicable to me: "Prawn Whore". The dusty corners of my memory are telling me it was first coined by work... Continue Reading →