vincent and fennel
just two buddies, chillaxing on a daybed:
the blocks have arrived!
this building is proceeding at a rate of knots. the builder is extraordinarily organised and things happen like clockwork around him. materials, equipment and blokes arrive precisely on cue and leave precisely on cue. i am enjoying watching it all unfold. he makes it look so easy that one would be tempted to have a [...]
if you received a windfall…
i received a note with an online soap order the other day. to the effect that the note-writer had wanted to try my soaps for ever, and she had recently received an inheritance, so now she was buying my soap at last. i was extraordinarily touched by this; the thought that my soap was on [...]
the extension
we’ve been discussing this for six years and at last the day is at hand. we are building an extension onto our home and what this means is that we will no longer have to live in our bedroom. we live in a very simple shed that is divided into a large room, a kitchen [...]
new look for the website
after years of instructing designers to pare things down and go for extreme minimalism, or should i say mnmlsm?….i have had an abrupt volte-face. i am tired tired tired of arial and black and white and wide white spaces on the page. i’ve done that pale discreet subtle natural gentle whispering simple minimal (mnml) thing [...]
home again
we’ve been home for only nine days and it feels as though paris was a lifetime ago already. really, you couldn’t find two environments more different than the middle of the marais and the outskirts of malanda. fortunately, both places have their compensations. usually when we go away, by the last week, my husband is [...]
