Why? Have you hit your fat head? Are you on the glue again? This was the response that most gave me when I told them I’d ridden from John O’Groats to Land’s End, unassisted, on a bicycle. The journey was 950 miles from end to end and not even for charity – “just cuz, I…
Why not mix mischief and pleasure with the worlds most awarded gin this New Year. The Snowflake Ball 50ml Tanqueray London Dry Gin 15ml lemon juice 15ml lime juice 1/2 an egg white 15ml double cream 3 dashes of orange flower water 15ml sugar syrup Top with soda Cinnamon powder Method – add all ingredients but…
Restaurants in London come and go. People move on; tastes change; leases run out and new ones become prohibitive. Good sites are snapped up by hamburger and pizza chains and coffee shops now proliferate. But some places stand the test of time and one such, about to celebrate its 30th year, is Sally Clarke’s on…
Whiskey geeks will already know this, but Irish whiskey is enjoying a bit of a moment. Rightly so, because the best of them can hold their own against your favourite bourbons and scotches. No longer the stuff reserved for drowning your sorrows or for lacing your coffee, top-tier Irish whiskey is creating it’s own buzz. The…
While Apple’s global success is a definitively American story where can-do business spirit tessellates perfectly with a counterculture-derived human intuition, it’s the sensual nous of their British-born design supremo, Jonathan Ives, that has ensured nearly two decades of continuing success. This is a familiar story. In booming unified Germany, where those born in the east…
You know that people will Google you before you meet them. Everyone does it. So what should you do when your online personal brand is letting you down? Contact Top Left Design, the ultimate service for high net worths, that’s what. You’ll soon want Keren Lerner, aka the social media guru, on speed dial. She…
Ruby Murray, the Northern Irish popular singer who gave her name to rhyming slang’s favourite cuisine, was herself a big drinker. But probably not this classy. ‘A journey along the Grand Trunk Road is a bewildering mix of the past and present, tripping back and forth between the mundane and the momentous,’ writes Tim Smith…
London’s contemporary art scene is consistently exciting. But in a city that’s literally bursting with fresh talent, pinpointing the masters of tomorrow can become time-consuming. Don’t worry though, because London’s South Place Hotel is connecting emerging artists with the rest of the world by holding its annual art prize tomorrow night. Head there for the…
Four years after the death at 59 of Dr Christopher Penfold in 1874, an Australian journalist discovered that his widow Mary blended ‘the wines when they are two or three years old’, a process that ‘is done under Mrs Penfold’s personal supervision, not in conformity with any fixed and definite rule, but entirely according to…
Comfortable in the knowledge that there are literally scores of punters who’d fork out £1,000 for a device that heats up bread, Dualit has added this 24-carat gold-plated toaster to its collection. The virtually unbreakable device combines a gold-plated retro design with four slots that can produce up to 130 slices in an hour. Which…