Welcome to my collection of random thoughts inspired by my experiences, travels and camera lens.
I recently discovered Rituals and promptly fell in love with two scents from the Rituals Bed and Body Mist range. Where have these been all my life? I’ve only had them a few weeks and I wear both A LOT! I can’t even choose which one I prefer. I walked into John Lewis to buy …
I’ve been quiet I know; it’s been very busy for me the last couple of weeks. My first blog is late in the week I know, but I have a post to share written by my cousin, AP. A few weeks ago, she tried, rather unsuccessfully to rope me into a night of speed dating. …
I look like a cross between the Oscar statuette and Iron Man, don’t I? This weird covering on my face is a gold face mask, the Gold Bio-Collagen Face Mask, that I picked up from Benetton on Chiswick High Road. When I was still living in Dubai, gold beauty treatments were heavily advertised in the 5-star …
My friend D. Alves is full of bright ideas. Together, we have undertaken to explore London, even though he has lived here for most of his life, there’s still a lot even he hasn’t seen. He recently suggested that we take a Thames Clipper from South Bank to Greenwich. I’ve never taken a boat ride …
I was thinking about this the other day actually; living in Dubai, and quite possibly the rest of the UAE, really skews your sense of reality. There’s the real world, then there’s Dubai. Unless you have lived there, or, perhaps even in West Africa, then you really won’t get it. Here are five things I …
I can’t imagine what a world without art would be like. Drab? Abysmal? Dead? A dark void? The great thing about being back in the UK is that I have more than enough time to explore London’s art scene – and there’s so much to choose from. Last week, my sister and I were invited …
Ahhh spring, probably my favourite season of the year and one that I missed a lot whilst living in the tropics and desert. The sight of flowers beginning to blossom, bare trees taking on a mantle of green as new leaves begin to show – it’s a miraculous sign of the world reawakening once again after …
I learned about Pure Fiji quite recently through Anita, a friend of mine. Her vivid descriptions about this organic beauty range inspired me to invite her onto my blog to write about them. I thought I might have to twist her arm a little (a bit hard as Anita’s in Australia), but she’s a great …
My sister’s 12-year-old godson recently spent a few days in the UK. His trip, his first to England, included sightseeing around London, taking in Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace (that was a first for me too actually), and, because he’s a young boy, spending a lot of time at comic bookshops around the West End. Apparently …
So, this weekend was a busy one, with me traipsing all over the capital. I even ventured into East London, a place I tend to have really bad experiences with and generally avoid like the plague. And, in keeping with tradition, my visit to both the Vintage Fair and the V&A Childhood Museum at Bethnal Green …