Julia Barklem

Borough Market

Pantone 14 - 3612 Orchid Bloom

Pantone 345

Pantone 152

The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseine

Our first piadina stuffed full with pork mozzarella tomatoes and lettuce leaves

We stumbled upon this beautiful plant sale while looking at various shows for Milan design week. We had just left the Rosanna Orlandi Gallery and were heading down the road when we found this heaven of colours, patterns and sizes held in a beautiful old court yard. There was an extraordinary variety of cacti for sale. Shapes,sizes and colours that I had never seen before! Of course I wanted to buy one, the small ones were only €3 so it was more than reasonable but I knew the little thing wouldn't survive the rest of the day in my bag and then the plane journey back to the UK so I had to settle for some pictures instead of the real thing

Rosanna Orlandi Gallery Milano

Peach Pearl

This is my new South African addition to my key ring

Masked Crab Corystes cassivelaunus

In the fore ground in the grade 2 listed 219-229 building on Shaftesbury Avenue which is now home to Optical Express

Oxford Street Artist

Memmingen

So every Easter its tradition in my family to decorate eggs. With lots happening this year it was only Barbara and myself who dedicated their time to the egg decoration. This put us in charge of design and concept and as these naturally dyed eggs are our favourite we used up all the eggs and made 36 of them.

As well as looking incredible the strawberry light sponge and cream cake also tasted incredible! 

Thank you Georg for taking me on my first run of the year through the Schweins Wald (Bores Forest). The air was clean, the sun was out and the sky was blue, I couldn’t have asked for anything better. A short but enjoyable 3.2km jog rounded off a perfect afternoon in the bavarian countryside.