Month: December 2018

  • Welcome to Bali

    We touched down in Bali 48 hours ago and it’s safe to say both S and I are in love. Not only is this one of the most beautiful places I have ever been, but the people are lovely and the food is to die for. Getting into Bali is not that easy – the…

  • Fremantle, Sunsets and Christmas Day in Oz

    So Christmas in the sun was a blast! On Sunday we headed down to Cottesloe Beach to catch the last of the sun and see it set over the horizon. It turns out the vegans had been out in force to spread the word in the area, so we put S in place for a…

  • Christmas Down Under – Part 1

    With the winter weather turning London and Surrey into a scene reminiscent of a post “Winter is Coming” Game of Thrones, S and I have escaped to sunnier climes for the festive season. We are spending Christmas with S’s family in Perth on Australia’s West Coast, where the temperature is currently tipping the mercury at…

  • Breaking news: James Bond drinks too much

    Sometimes news breaks of a scientific study or a piece of research which is truly groundbreaking. It is the sort of work which creates headlines around the globe and alters your perception of the world. And sometimes there are reports like this. ‘Licence to swill’ – James Bond declared ‘severe’ alcoholic by public health academics…

  • Avengers: Endgame is coming

    “Part of the journey is the end.” As ‘trailer-made’ lines go, that utterance from Tony Stark in the new Avengers film is pretty perfect isn’t it? The latest in Marvel’s pantheon of superhero flicks – it’s called Avengers: Endgame – unveiled its first trailer at the weekend and the internet has been – quite rightly…

  • This Savile Row pop-up shop is raising money for Crisis

    There is a new pop-up store coming to London this Christmas. Tom Stubbs, the man behind the wonderfully named Style and Error accounts, is the driving force behind the “call to garms” Savile Row pop-up store in aid of Crisis. You can – and should – find more from the stylist, style writer and FT…

  • Is Tyson Fury really boxing’s comeback hero?

    Tyson Fury is a boxing comeback story who has served a drug ban, been forced to apologise for anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks and gives his multi-million dollar fight purse to the homeless. Now let that sink in. Trying to chart Fury’s media journey in recent years is a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows which…

  • The new Captain Marvel trailer just dropped

    With all the excitement in the world at the moment, this seems to have got missed. In the early hours of this morning, UK time, Marvel released its second Captain Marvel trailer. This gives us another look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s uber-goody, who is set to play a huge role in the fourth Avengers…

  • Relax, Grindelwald’s greatest crime isn’t ruining Harry Potter

    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has been out for almost three weeks now and you would be forgiven for thinking it had smashed the Harry Potter universe into a million pieces and used the remains to create a Twilight homage. Such has been the outpouring of fury at the latest instalment in the Wizarding…