Beauty Queens and Crabs
A sarong clad decrepit of indeterminate age greeted us at the Sea View Inn, off the Marine Drive in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The wicker ...
Autumn Leaves and Bloody Marys
The offer to fly a light aircraft over Boston and into New Hampshire was difficult to refuse. The colours of autumn leaves in the ...
Fashionistas Slum it for Dim Sum
Earl's Court is a grotty neighbourhood full of student digs, chain stores and anonymous seedy restaurants. Nestled here is the Dra ...
Dirty Pretty Things
Iconic girl, iconic chair, iconic sixties scandal - iconic picture by Lewis Morley, 1963 The whiff of scandal gives Cliveden Hou ...
Ageing Queens Rarely Look Good
The Queen's Hotel circa 1918 My earliest memory of the Queen's Hotel in Kandy (Sri Lanka) was visiting the in-house barber with ...
Casa Mono-Whose Casa is it?
"Hey Donald, did someone say say wife swap?" Hilary Clinton wants to inherit her husband's old job, because well, you know, she ...
Sex, Socialism and Rock ‘n Roll
As a teenager I had a brief fling with socialism. It had less to do with politics and everything to do with meeting attractive mem ...
Scotland: In Gratitude
If you've been on Facebook recently you may have noticed people posting a daily list of things that they are grateful for. I'm no ...
The Case Of the Man Who Wanted a Sandwich On a Wednesday.
In the past 15 years London has seen a surfeit of new waiters. They are mostly Eastern European and although many of them see wait ...
