The Olive Tree, Bath
Bath. It really is splendid. The miles of elegant stone terraces are for Bath what Persimmon is doing everywhere else. Well, that’s a touch unkind; Bath saw a great expansion […]
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Seven Lucky Gods, Bristol
So, can it really be two years since we wrote this post and left it languishing right through the Great Covid Disaster? Yes…it can. It’s clear that Bristol has become […]
Frog XVI, Paris
At some stage in the past couple of years a dear friend suggested we cycle to Paris. From London, not North Yorkshire. COVID-19 put paid to the adventure in 2020 […]
Le Citrouille, Paris
We’ll, we didn’t really intend for our first significant foray after 18 months of confinement to be to Paris. A long awaited cycling trip to accompany a good friend saw […]
Hope Street Hotel
Gradually, and with a good deal of hesitancy, life slowly thinks about what it will be like when things return to normal – whatever that might be. It’s the first […]
Terence Conran
Well, Terence Conran died today. He was 88, so perhaps it wasn’t a great surprise but it definitely feels the end of an incredibly important design culture that began in […]
Hotel des Arts, Saigon, Vietnam
Now for something completely different, as Monty Python used to say. Remember them? Saigon (to the people of the south – Ho Chi Minh to the northerners) is vibrant. Very […]
Salts Mill Diner, Saltaire, West Yorkshire
The days of the paternalistic approach to looking after your workers has, apparently, long gone. To be fair, for many employers in the industrial and post-industrial period, it had as […]
The Tetley, Leeds
The papers are full of the joys of leaving London and moving north. Young people are finally seeing the benefits of cheaper housing, cheaper beer (though not restaurants unless you […]
Notting Hill Carnival, London
Well, it started in 1959 apparently. In St Pancras Town Hall, of all places although, after sixty years this is the 53rd Carnival? Claudia Jones started it in 1959 to […]
