Goodbye to Berlin
Well lucky I didn't pack my bowler hat and stockings, I really wouldn't have found any use for them. I was obsessed with the film ‘Cabaret’ for years so a visit to Berlin was a fond fantasy consisting of intimate bars and clubs, divinely decadent people an

Marmite stock
The Marmite Popup shop in Regents street, only there for a month...

Being seen at the Zine scene
Punk wasn't just about music, it included design, fashion and journalism. It led to a movement of home-made magazines, ready to fill the gap of the stuff that wasn't being published in all the straight press. Some of them were fairly rough, traced painstakingly on blue carbon copy paper... This was before photocopiers remember, before scanning, before digital photography...But the energy and passion rippled off the folded pages, decorated with hand drawings, fiery opinion pieces and interviews. Out of the 'zines, Sniffin

Kilburn's Luminaire

An afternoon with Harumi Kurihara
Harumi showing Valentine Warner how to pound sesame seed Japanese style.We often think of Japanese cooking as complex, alien and difficult. A book 'Everyday Harumi' by Japan's most p