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September 13, 2010 - No Comments!

Jimmy Krankie

Today I want to share a picture that has been stuck near my computer for a good couple of years now, and one that gives me endless amusement. My good friend, work colleague and talented illustrator Sarah Skeate drew this picture on a post-it following a discussion about the incredible wrongness of that 80's TV show The Krankies (husband and wife duo, wife dresses as a schoolboy, husband plays the father....nooooo). Always raises a smile. Sarah sorry this is probably not the illustration of choice to present your work to my audience of, oh, at least 3 people, but I encourage everyone to look at your site!

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September 10, 2010 - No Comments!

Tea

Tea on the brain today... I can't seem to get enough of the stuff. This 1939 poster available from V&A Prints hits the nail on the head - oh to be on the beach, under an umbrella, sipping tea from a teapot no less. But where are the saucers? Shock horror! Beach or no beach the reviving effects of a good cuppa just can't be beat:

These fine china cups by welovekaoru are beautiful, some have the luxurious touch of hand painted 22 carat gold:

Love this pantone tea colour chart by Onka Kular, one for the office!:

Some lovely prints found on etsy, by drawcity:

By beethings:

By kathymellor:

Those crazy surrealists....Meret Oppenheim's Object (1936). Not the most practical tea cup I've seen!

And what do you need with a nice cup of tea? Why a biscuit of course! This advert for The Red October Factory by the great Rodchenko is delightfully strange:

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August 28, 2010 - No Comments!

Blue Skies

It's a beautiful, glittering blue sky day. After what seems like weeks of drizzle and torrential rain everything is again defined by the sharp relief of summer light. I am emerging from a muffling cold reluctant to leave, so took a stroll to the beach via The Real Patisserie for an almond croissant and cup of coffee, had breakfast on the pebbles and felt the breeze and daylight revive me. Not every post about what I have done on a particular day will involve the beach, but really this morning was too gorgeous not to write about!

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August 15, 2010 - 2 comments

The Beatles at Shea Stadium

On this day in 1965 The Beatles played to a record 55,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York. Beatlemania was at it's height and the concert set a new precedence for large scale performance. The volume of the screaming women and girls was so intense that the sound of the fab four was barely audible - the amount of amplification needed to rise above the hysteria wildly underestimated. Even so, it would have been pretty amazing to witness!