Take It Up Wear It Out

At the start of the year, when the only thing getting me out of the house on cold and rainy weekend days was my Wandle Wardrobe lost clothe...

  Seeing a greenfinch in a patch of no-man’s land near my flat in March 2020 marked a turning point in the way I thought about London wildli...

  This time last year, I took my first local morning walk instead of my regular commute by train into central London. The sun was shining, a...

Winter can be a difficult time of year for some of us. The short days, low light levels and cold or rainy weather can leave us feeling leth...

  My current Wandle Wardrobe focus - making clothes from the fabrics I found dumped by the nature reserve - might seem like a slightly flims...

  I usually like to write a blog post around Halloween about the historical horrors of the fashion industry (it’s a great excuse to dress up...

It started over socially-distanced Saturday morning coffee on the communal field. One of my neighbours mentioned that the Residents Associat...