Summer is slowly leaving my corner of the world. There were foggy mornings this week; I was grateful for my wool tweed (and to Chalk Farm Antiques for their marvellous stock of second-hand clothes – 100% wool jackets for under £40? I am there), but it’s still light enough to go without a hat. I … Continue reading
Spring has well and truly settled down now, we think. Cold weather breeds such sadness and lethargy in me, you’d think growing up in a cold house whose rooms were half underground and barely warmed with questionable central heating would be character-building. We would have to wear hats and gloves indoors, and most activities were … Continue reading
It’s been several weeks since I’ve had the time to go to Chin Chin Labs. I usually go with Mr Pear at the weekend, but we’ve both been quite busy lately. Totally kicking myself for missing their Bonfire Night-themed marshmallow ice cream but no matter–I was looking forward to seeing what their Christmas flavours would … Continue reading
Today the Kentishtowner has a new and quite rightly positive review up of my new local, so I thought I would be hip and current by piggybacking on their post. During September I was very curious about the goings-on in the empty shop space next to Kentish Town West. There was a large sign behind … Continue reading
I am steadily turning into what I usually find very boring: one of those people who exhaustively blog their boring lives, constituting their identity by conspiciously displaying their habits of consumption. The fact that I consciously do it with ironical post-modern ennui makes it even worse. In fact, it might even make me a hipster. … Continue reading
Being a part of the Lolita fashion scene in London has encouraged me to nurture several things in life: a lack of shame, good friends, and quite particular tastes. I’m not so active in the actual frillying-up now, but I still retain an affection for consuming the strange and the sweet. Over the past year … Continue reading
The Furious Pear Pie 
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