Here There and Everywhere
Once again we provide a whimsical little selection of everything to provide comfort and stimulation in equal measure…..
Dear Reader,
You will doubtless be thrilled to know I do not get any better…. this month’s Editor’s letter is done just mere hours before my own deadline – so I suppose progress of a sort. Last month saw our second networking drinks kindly hosted by the urbane Oscar Udeshi as friends, followers and brands as disparate as Windridge & Young, Roses Only, Wine Source and Page & Cooper had to put up with my inane chat for a couple of hours. A fun evening was had by all.
We have a varied and enlightening month for you (I know what you’re thinking, two months on the trot…wow). Aaron Shuttleworth investigates the few remaining New York bastions of the shoe makers art – now sadly a pale shadow of their former glory. Marc Stickley feels the wind in his hair – and scares himself witless – behind the wheel of the Caterham Seven 270S and Jonathan Phang ponders the oriental and colonial allure of Macao.
Keeping on a travel theme, Laura Bingham sends her first update on her mission to cycle South America – weather, kindness, hostility and an unexpected hug have made it a whirlwind month for her. I interview adventuress Justine Gosling – discussing her remarkable voyage across Europe, the people she met and the lingering suspicions of Russia in much of Eastern Europe.
Given the current sartorial insults being hurled across the dispatch box, it is perhaps apt I turn to the key items a chap should have in his wardrobe. I also chat with Emmet Smth of Rebus signet rings on the painstaking artisanship behind these engraved accessories. Now I wonder if Comrade Jeremy has one…….
Best wishes,
