livenow.jpg Eric Smith’s perspective on life changed upon being diagnosed with cancer, leading to the Live Now Project : “Before cancer I was like most folks, just cruising along. It was during my treatment, when I started to discover what cancer could gift to me – the ability to absorb every moment as if each one were my whole life.

minigiants.jpg As a father, it’s little surprise that I love childrens’ clothes. I’m very enthusiastic about Mini Giants ‘ collection, even if some of the pieces are a little on the pricey side (£40 for a T-shirt that will inevitably end up covered in assorted food, sick and the detritus of childhood seems bananas).

oldlondon.jpg Fantastic video footage of London from 1927. … Bloody hell, that’s older than my nan (well she doesn’t have a birth certificate, but we reckon she was born in 1930).

plantyniceness.jpg Throughout my childhood my mother and grandmother would endlessly take off-cuts of plants to nurture at home, or give away to friends and family. The Osusowake planting system could have been made for them.