Tag Archives: Art

Moving house, Spandangled, Spain … and the joy of magic pants.

Posted on September 18, 2018 by fortewinks

Fortewinks’ May post was delivered with little insight as to the Very Difficult Time that was unfolding. Because every now and then the outcome of precipitous events does not become clear until later: this was such an episode. Shortly after … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Design and architecture, Entertaining, Family, Food and wine, Friends, holiday, Home, Life and romance, London, Travel, Uncategorized | Tagged Art, boyfriend, business, Dance, design, East London, france, girlfriend, holidays, Home, humour, investment, lettings, life, love, spain, Texas | 2 Comments

Hello to half a century (and then some).

Posted on May 7, 2018 by fortewinks

Fifty-five is not an insubstantial age but not as old as I hope to be one day – assuming I will remain in fine fettle of course. This year’s birthday celebrations extended to before and beyond the day itself and … Continue reading →

Posted in Entertaining, Family, Food and wine, Friends, Health, holiday, Home, Life and romance, London, Motherhood, Travel, Uncategorized | Tagged 55, Arcadia Spectacular, Art, Entertainment, Family, Food, Fun, GranCanaria, happy, holiday, humour, Idyll Suites, Innovation, life, Maserati, middle age, Party, sun, Sunday Times, wine, work | Leave a comment

A Wanstead afternoon and other social shenanigans

Posted on April 20, 2016 by fortewinks

It began on the first Friday of April. I had invited very old friends from Cambridge days of yore, people with whom I had mingled during the year of my secretarial training. The early ‘80s involved partner in crime, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Entertaining, Family, Food and wine, Friends, Home, Life and romance, London, Uncategorized | Tagged Art, Bethnal Green, Family, Food, friends, Giovanna Forte, life, Shoreditch, wine | Leave a comment

Girls on Tour: The Three Graces and a Tasmanian Roadtrip

Posted on May 18, 2015 by fortewinks

Australia is a substantial and beautiful country that until recently left my interest unpiqued. Until that is, Exocet (Youngest of All) deemed her culinary career incomplete without experiencing the territory’s joyful food culture; she moved to the other side of the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Design and architecture, Entertaining, Family, Food and wine, Friends, Life and romance, Travel | Tagged Art, australia, avoca, boyfriend, cape raoul, daughters, family, female factory, Food, food and wine, friends, friendship, geology, Health, hobart, life, love, melbourne, MONA, oatlands, tasmania, white beach, wine | 3 Comments

A tale of clever women and country cottages.

Posted on February 24, 2014 by fortewinks

The charms of a weekend in the country have largely eluded me over thirty years as a Londoner, mainly because I feel safe in these smokey streets. So when invitations to go there began to arrive, I thought long and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Business, Entertaining, Family, Feminism, Food and wine, Friends, Life and romance, London, PR, Shopping, Travel, Uncategorized | Tagged Aldeburgh, Art, boyfriend, Camerons, Clever women, Cotswolds, country, countryside, education, Girlfriends, intellectual, Kate Moss, Oxfordshire, Ruby Wax, sassy, sculpture, Suffolk, wellies | 2 Comments

Sicily and the art of slow

Posted on August 24, 2013 by fortewinks

Mr Smart, Head of Art is ultimately responsible. Chatting last term to Beautiful Boyfriend (mine, not his) he recommended as the starting point for our imminent vacanza, a swanky Palazzo apartment owned by a Countess he happens to know. Palermo … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Design and architecture, Food and wine, Friends, Health, Life and romance, Travel, Uncategorized | Tagged architecture, Art, Barbie, beach, boyfriend, campofelice di roccella, Cappella Palatina, Cefalù, Christ Pantocrator, cooking, Food, fruit, holiday, love, markets, mosaic, Palermo, pasta, pesto, Prosecco, sea, Sicily, Smart, sun, wine | 2 Comments

Spicy rum, wayward cherubs and the artist unzipped

Posted on January 28, 2012 by fortewinks

Once upon a time I must have known how to spell ‘prompt’. These days its meaning seems to escape me, and so with more metaphorical Lycra than was decent for “fashionably late”, I landed in the midst of Zyg’s Private … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Friends, Life and romance, Shopping, Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Phillip, Alan Phillips Architecture, Art, Brighton, Jarzembowski, Kraken, Lamps, Leap of Faith, Marblehead Brands, Modelmaking, Party, Putto, Toy, Vintage, Zyg, Zyg Jarzembowski | Leave a comment