Super Model

Designer Kitchen

What DIY do you, I mean we, have planned for this weekend then?
Well, the kitchen floor's knackered...
It'll only take ten minutes to slap a bit of brown paint over that.
No. I don't want it flat brown. I want that swirly Pucci pattern all over it.
Very well darling.
Don't sigh.

The Best Sets You'll Ever See.

Photographed at Lordship Park...

White Christmas

Photographed at Lordship Park by Alex James

Walkies!

Nah, you're alright.

Something For The Weekend

Geordie Shore's Holly Hagan poses at Lordship Park for this week's Nuts Magazine

Bond Girl Messed Up My Bed

Naomie Harris photographed in Lordship Park bedroom by Yu Tsai

for German GQ magazine.

Berenice Marlohe photographed in the Lordship Park all white basement

Kelly Brook at Lordship Park

Kelly Brook looks dazzling in her collection for New Look - photographed at Lordship Park

Autumn Knit

Lotus, photographed at Lordship Park in Mungo & Maud cable-knit jumper.

Kate Middleton's Cuz Visits Lordship Park

Burlesque dancer Katrina Darling from Sunderland poses for Playboy at Lordship Park

Thank God it's the Weekend

Booking and paying for 2 seats and 2 pieces of luggage on AirAsia Flight FD3617 Phnom Penh - Surarnabhumii (Bangkok) and communicating all relevant details to John via Facebook.  
2 hrs 10 minutes.
Searching internet for flights to Milan and back to London via Trieste and sharing findings with various other third parties via email.
1hr 15 minutes.
Series of lengthy, complex emails to Joe's potential college in an attempt to reschedule his essential music theory course which he is missing due to him to going to Italy for a month to recuperate from massive strain of GCSEs.
50 minutes.
Baking scones, chatting to stylists and admiring roomfuls of Tesco's 2012 Christmas baubles, trees and tinsel being shot here this weekend.
1hr 45 minutes.  
Studying spreadsheet schedule for Singin' in the Rain while simultaneously synchronising Ed's performances to friends and families availability.
Ongoing.
Arranging with non English speaking FedEx employee the collection from here and delivery to lengthy, unpronounceable address in Chiangmai, Thailand of John's replacement bank card that he lost at a beach party. 
45 minutes.
Trying to to activate John's new card and access pin when he's given me the wrong ****ing password for his account.
Endless.
Dying Ed's old, red suede Nikes black without getting any dye on the white tick, while Ed is watching. 
2 hours and my eyesight.
Driving Ed to Waterloo to meet up with friends for sleepover in Surrey.
1hr 10 minutes.
Tracking down 4ft x 6ft mattress for Ed's new 'compact' bedroom when all mattresses know to man are 6ft 2.
Waiting for the opportunity to be able to go to the cinema, a restaurant, a bar or an exhibition without organising childcare.
19 years 7 months.
Summoning up the energy for a night out.
Impossible.

Down-in-the-Dumps Dog

Whippets don't like the wet. Enzo is so miserable even the promise of 'massive savings on ice-cream' doesn't lift his mood. 

Come on boy, lets take you home and give you a new hair-do - that'll cheer you up.
Some hours later...

Hahaha... Conde Nast Brides Magazine were shooting here yesterday and they asked Stuart from Groom Dog City to bring along Molly, the cutest Bichon Frise, dyed pink for the occasion. Stuart was telling us that he uses completely safe and natural vegetable dyes that gradually wash out - apparently she was even brighter when he first did the colour last week. 

Hollywood Glamour

    Lordship Park - looking like a film star's pad in the latest Zinc brochure.

 

Olympic Torch Right Up Our Street

Brian and I haven't really watched much TV since the School for Stars series came to an end. I used to catch up with a bit of local gossip on Capital Radio, taking Ed to school but as we now don't have a car we've become a bit out of touch. So, it was news to us when we had the Lordship Park residents get together at the Brownswood Tavern last night that a hosepipe ban will come into force at midnight tonight. Oh Dear! AND, on the 21st of July the Olympic Torch is being carried down our road, yes, Lordship Park, on the final leg of it's journey to the stadium. The event is being celebrated with a huge festival in Clissold Park and the whole shebang will be televised worldwide. OH DEAR!!!

In Style

Ooo, just came across these lovely pictures of Freya Mavor in February's InStyle Magazine. Shot here by Arved Colvin-Smith.

John: "Mum. Do me a favour. Next time Freya Mavor is doing a pyjama shoot here please can you tell me."

Well Dressed House

Darren Black just sent me these pictures that he shot here for Fantastics Mag. Fantastic aren't they!

Sunday Night

A quick, last-minute tour before we took all the art down...

...and life at Lordship Park returns to normal...

Misty Autumn Garden

The garden has decided to put on a fabulous show of colour - just in time for Dark Weekend... how very annoying.

Hello Capri

Who's that having her piccie taken with Capri?....

 Una Healy from the Saturdays and England rugby player Ben Foden in the Hackney Chateau autumn garden, for this week's HELLO Magazine.

Topshop Caked in Moss

Topshop Magazine's Autumn Winter story is online here. Photographed at Lordship Park a few weeks ago they've cleverly managed to conjure up the atmosphere of some romantic, semi-derelict mansion - abandoned to the ravages of time and the elements.
Brian! Get the jet-wash out the shed.