I like plants. My house is turning into a mini jungle, I have a trellis in the living room with Andy the killer creeper creeping quietly over it, I have ferns in the bathroom and a lily by the washbasin. There's a sedum by the kitchen sink and a giant spiderplant on the bookcase in in the living room ( Read more... )

Love it or hate it, it seems like you can’t go more than a couple of hundred metres in a city centre these days without tripping over a Starbucks. They’re all reassuringly the same. Green aprons (green for calm, calm, don’t hurt the baristas, for they provide coffee), beige and maroon walls, nice earthy tones. Pointless jazz on in the background, ( Read more... )