My week

I was very glad that everything seems to have calmed down in London today and I can ride my bicycle again.   I'm absolutely loving my new found freedom and I've been going all over the place.  The first day I rode it I didn't even like a car going past me!  I'm fine now although I'm steering clear of main roads, bendy buses and car doors opening!   I never took my driving test and haven't had a

88* by Bistrotheque. Where we go to dinner on a speedboat

Our destination - I didn't take this, obviously.
Last Friday evening The Actor and I had dinner at Bistrotheque's latest pop-up restaurant 88.  We're very lucky to be invited to such fun things.  The venue was a soon-to-be-demolished postmodern office building in Canary Wharf.  Built in 1988, the theme was the glamour and excess of that time.  All the music was from 1988 and the food reflected

Mrs Jones new shop opening in Shoreditch

By Sunday I'd done four days on the low carb diet and was already bored with losing a food group.
Giles and David came over on Saturday night and I was unusually well behaved.  I drank umpteen cups of Rooibos tea.  Giles had beer and David had Jack Daniels and Coke, which I inhaled every time it passed me.  To top off the rock 'n' roll look I was also wearing a long white Victorian nightdress

Karlie and Princess Julia open The Amwell Street Knocking Shop

Last night I went to the preview of Karlie Shelley and Princess Julia's new place The Amwell Street Knocking Shop.  A fantastic pop-up shop open until Sunday 26th June selling vintage and archive clothing by their friends and lots interesting things from their personal collections.  

The lovely Karlie Shelley
My wonderful friend Princess Julia
There's label and non-label vintage from all eras

David Waddington's 40th Birthday at Bistrotheque

Birthday boy the gorgeous Mr Waddington
Yesterday my great friend David Waddington co-owner of East End restaurant, bar and cabaret Bistrotheque gave a lunch for forty close friends and family to celebrate his 40th Birthday.  It was also the seventh anniversary of Bistrotheque's opening.
Even after seven years Bistrotheque still has no sign outside just this painted on the wall in entrance
It

McCoys and Mary's fabulous Tea Parties

Mary
My friend, the gorgeous Mary McCoy is a great actress and cook.  Mary loves baking and cakes are her speciality.  Mary's been doing bespoke tea parties for a while now and everything is handmade in her kitchen at home.  I thought having an afternoon tea at my house would be an unusually civilised thing to do and it's a good excuse to have a catch up with friends.  Saturday afternoon was

All the best plans...

My friend Phoebe on the left
So, yesterday I had a day off.  I'm not quite sure where I'm going with this post but I deserve a PhD in wasting time.  In the morning I peered out the window and it was so foggy I couldn't even see the houses opposite.  I went straight back to bed.  There's a chunk of time wasted.
I got up again a few hours later and decided as I hadn't done any exercise for

A new magazine you'll want to read - Ponystep

Photography by Sølve SundsbøJerry Hall
As a reformed magazine junkie myself - It began with a weekly Disney comic, The Beano and Twinkle in the early Seventies and progressed to Jackie, Honey and Smash Hits followed by NME, Vogue, The Face and i-D and finally into a huge number of fashion and - a word I hate - "celebrity" mags.  I don't buy those anymore and have no idea who half these people

LOVE magazine's Christmas bash

LOVE's Fashion Director Victoria Young and designer Jonathan Saunders.  Loving the outfit Vic!
Which of course I missed because I'd peaked too early on my round of Christmas parties!!  I've never been good at going out on a Monday night but I'm much more of a lightweight than I used to be.
The fabulous Mandi Lennard who looks after LOVE's PR and a whole of host of other great stuff, sent me some

Vision On - Art night at The Drop

"An evening of groovy old music, pencils, paper drawing, crayons, plasticine, alcohol, and improvised gallery, creative oddness, weird old TV and more"
My next stop of the night was Vision On at The Drop, a cool little venue which my friend Nathan Wilkins promotes just off Kingsland High Street.
Vision On is a monthly evening of art organised and hosted by Corinne Drewery who many of you will