race for life. (and to get away from dogs.)

My friends Clare, Sara and I have been on and off training for the last few months to run the Hampstead Heath Race for Life - which is only 5k and was scoffed at by many boys we know as being a mere walk in the erm - park but it was tough. I was running for people in my family and especially my friend Sam Cocozza and his family who have recently been affected by cancer.

Here he is in the shower - this picture conveniently appeared on facebook today just in time for this post and to begin circulating in the web! ha. Bit generous with the foam hey? ;)
While jogging along nicely a mad dog came running over the field and attacked us girls it was pretty scary and the reason I managed to do the run in 33 mins - I was really just legging it from the dog! If anyone would like to donate some money the website is still open and if you simply click here you'll be taken straight to it....
thank you everyone who sponsored me.
http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/jessicawright0

kule KULER

Someone tipped me off about this last week: Kuler, an Adobe extension for Ai. where you can share colour themes, never again need your work look dull and boring - clashing/contrasting/whatever colours. I'm not sure about uploading your own, but if you want to quickly illustrate a beach scene for example, downloading the 'sand and stone' swatches (which takes seconds) is probably worth while.

yeah what Jay Rayner said:

I absolutely love love LOVE L.O.V.E Brixton Village and I go there really quite a lot. Here's a photo of a curry I had on Friday night and here's a load of words Jay Rayner wrote about the market in the Observer. If you haven't been yet it's my No.1 recommendation of the year.

It was while I was eating the burger, the juices dribbling down my wrists, the scent of properly aged dead animal in my nostrils, that I realised I was being an idiot. A few months back I reviewed Kaosarn, a stonking Thai restaurant in an old covered market a short walk from my home in Brixton, south London. I hesitated before writing that review because it seemed lazy to cover somewhere so close to home. I am accused often enough of metropolitan bias, and though I do pretty well on the out-of-London stakes I could see that writing about somewhere that was practically within the back end of my own postcode would just be throwing lighter fuel on to the smouldering embers of a row.

But I have spent more and more time at Brixton Village since that review and become increasingly convinced that it is the most exciting, radical venture on the British restaurant scene right now. I spend hours every week wading through dismal press releases about the latest glossy openings, each of which has left no change from a million or more. These are places with lighting concepts and colour waves and boards full of investment bankers, which really is just rhyming slang. They are built and designed from the front door in rather than the kitchen out.

Brixton Village, formerly Granville Arcade, is entirely different. It's a dozen or more restaurants, most of which would have been opened for the price of a trip to Ikea. They don't have concepts. They have open kitchens and menus and nice young people bringing you nice stuff to eat. A bunch of them, being unlicensed, will feed you for under a tenner. None costs much more than that a head. The fact that all this is on my doorstep is a lucky coincidence. To which I can only say: hoorah for me. full article here.

photo of curry here...

what? a trapeze you say? yes a trapeze. in Regent's park? Oh right.

link to book here

Au Vieux Panier. Marseille

Internationally recognized graffiti artist Tilt has just completed this eye-popping interior design work for the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille. The hotel has just five rooms that are annually reconceptualized by commissioned artists and designers. For this space entitled Panic Room Tilt divided the room perfectly down the middle, one half covered entirely in his trademark vibrant and bubbly graffiti and the other half left stark white. See the other 4 rooms here. (from colossal)

SGP this summer.

I emplore you all - COME! come and have F.U.N. Before you wake up one morning, teeth in a glass next to your spectacles, bones aching from arthiritus beneath your ancient wrinkly saggy skin and you wonder where your days of youth dissapeared.
(could aslo describe the feeling you may expect waking up in your tent day 2 at SGP but hey-ho)

tickets are fast selling out, some super pals and myself have ours - tickets to join us here!

The Deptford Project.

So Boris said we can no longer drink alcohol on the London Underground - well now you can. Not only can you drink in the Deptford tube carriage restaurant but you can eat a ruddy Great meal to boot. Temporary so book in advance!

We're outta here...

Saturday we set off to Nicaragua on a fortnight truck drive from coast to coast across volcanic planes and into the wilderness. Here's a quick map of our planned route incase we get taken by snakes and anyone needs to come and rescue us.
Seeee yaaaa

so this is christmas.

hoorah Bob the homeless famous cat...

He's in Covent Garden at the moment. I gave him 50p for some kittikat yesterday. merry christmas to him.
He's even got his own bit on the london underground website.

what a great day!

first off, the lovely office dog Mr. Watson is sitting next to me all snuggled up...

and then a delicious cake arrives at my desk from my office admirer Luke! ;0)
 check out cox cakes....
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and finally - someone introduces me to a brand new blog dedicated to - clue in the title! YES!

My email addresss.

My wonderlandwpa email address is no longer in use - the clue being that I HAVEN'T WORKED THERE FOR A MONTH, sheesh. Please stop emailing it - my boss is picking up all sorts of nonsense especially gossip from the girls! sardinetincollector@gmail only.

WHOOP WHOOP dan & becca

coming soon...

News from KX

First exciting news is that Drink Shop Do has got the license to open a cocktail bar downstairs and under their current shop. Had a lovely ladies long lunch with Andrea there last week. Musical Bingo sells out so quickly each time - but there's another one on Dec 8th. see web link.

Also new in Kings Cross is Eat Street
which has popped up along a newly made road as part of the development to the St Pancras extension. Bustling with busy food stalls with cuisine from all over the world, it's typically just what I was saying KX needed - only 4 weeks after I left my job and no longer go there much! ha.

I am self employed.

Today I drew a starfish and a crab and it was quite a lot of fun. I got some amazing leaving gifts from my lovely ex colleagues at wonderland, they're like family - but family that actually buy you things you really like.
I'm going to take my new Diana camera out this weekend and snap all sorts of Peckham business.
(The galleries on this site are quite inspiring) http://microsites.lomography.com/diana/

Haloween at Selfridges

40 or so every day people. Messing up my house!

what a load of weirdos.

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