Last week France. This week Christmas. I barely had the chance to take off my beret and bicycle clips before I was in the studio and placing my baubles in the capable hands of the brilliant photographer darrylstoodley. This year the big day will be October 1st - which sees the launch of not one but two brilliant ranges. So dust down your Christmas card list, cross off all the people that have died or still owe you money and start that snowball rolling.
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103, 29, 15 – all numbers that mean something extra to me as they all relate to an address I have lived at. I'm still in France and as I have pootled around I've developed a mild fascination with the numerous (excuse the pun) types of numbers announcing a properties position. Maybe it's the Bordeaux talking, but If you're like me seeing these numbers in isolation is quite thrilling, your imagination can run wild, not only as to what the property looks like but to what secrets and stories it might hold.We each have...
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I rarely need an excuse to buy new stationery, I've got a house full of notebooks to prove it. The same goes for when I was just a LittleJon, a new term at the Big Girls School meant a trip to Woolworths or if I was feeling flush WHSmths. And it wasn't just my milkshake that brought all the boys to the yard, children would travel for miles to sniff my cherry pencil. Here are my Top 5 Back-To-School-Must-Haves. The question for the class is – what are yours? 1. Exercise...
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