Tracks on Loop: Sniffles and Sneezes

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

This week in London has been very freezing and colds have been flying around the office faster than you can say 'Bless you'. Not to fear though, we have stocked up on Lemsips and Kleenex and are as keen as ever. Atchooo!

Happy weekend folks!!

Tracks on Loop : Looks Like Spring

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

As I write this post looking out the office window the sun in shining and the skies are blue. Of course, it's only February and the wind is still bitterly cold, but as I sit at my desk I can almost be tricked into thinking that Spring has come early.

Hopefully it will stay this way all weekend, fingers crosses.

Happy Weekend Folks!

Tracks on Loop: Snow Falls and Sludge

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

So that snow that I was talking about last week did fall, and it brought freezing cold temperatures with it. Great for people planning on skiing, rubbish for those of us just trying to get around London. Ah well, any excuse to wrap up in a big cosy blanket, drink some wine and make my way through a handful of movies.

Happy weekend everyone!

Tracks on Loop: Cold Front

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

So, apparently it's going to snow this weekend - it certainly feels like it might. London is so cold at the moment that it's not even fun being outside so this is definitely a weekend to stay wrapped up warm inside.

What's the weather like where you are?

Happy weekend peeps!

Tracks on Loop : A Retrospective

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

Tonight, as part of Jerome's Christmas present from me, we are going to watch Uncle Vanya. There are a few bigs names in it including Anne Friel and Laura Carmichael (a.k.a Edith from Downton Abbey) so it should be a good evening, plus we are very tempted to kick it all off with a trip to Meat Market... mmm... Dead Hippy...

This week's Tracks on Loop is a retrospective of some of my favourite tracks featured on the blog in 2012.

Happy weekend folks!

Tracks on Loop : Party 'til you drop

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

It's that time of year where suddenly everything seems to kick-up a gear, and all those 'last-minute' Christmas preparations go flying out the window because you have way more important things to do, like go to parties and eat 'til you keel over.

It's a hard life, but I think we'll manage :)

Happy weekend everyone!

Tracks on Loop: The Christmas Season is Here

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

Christmas season here in the UK has officially begun. The supermarkets are blasting out festive songs from the 80s and the shops are piled wall to wall with gifts, trinkets and wrapping paper. We already have most of our gifts sorted, there are a few last minute homemade things that we have to wait until making but mostly we're sorted.

This means that we can now sit back, relax, and smirk smugly at all the last-minute shoppers running around like headless chickens, ahhhh, Christmas.

Happy Weekend everyone!

 

Tracks on Loop : Early Pakjes Avond

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

This year we are celebrating Pakjes Avond a weekend early again (it's a kind of St. Nicholas secret santa family tradition). Last year I had to buy a gift for my uncle and made this Christmas Survival Kit, this year, well, I can't say who I am buying for - that would be cheating - but I can tell you that I am very excited about giving my gift and I'll share it with you next week when the cat is out the bag.

Happy weekend everyone!

Tracks on Loop: Winter Wonderland

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

This weekend marks the opening of London's biggest Christmas market, the Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park. It's incredibly cheesy but being the big kids that we are Jerome and I love it.

So this weekend will more than likely be spend munching on turkey drumsticks, sipping mulled wine and wasting all our money on fair games. 

Happy weekend folks!

Most popular post on the blog this week: Honeysuckle Oyster Farm by Bluerock Design

Branding: Back and Forth Music Festival by Marcel Bachran

Now this is really something that you can get your teeth into, a branding project so complete and so spot on that I could look at it for hours.

Marcel Bachran worked on this project for the Berlin-based music festival Back and Forth, an acoustic festival lasting 4 days.

I really, really hope that they actually painted a pedestrian crossing like that because it looks fantastic.

You can check out more work by Marcel over here.

Tracks on Loop: Pizza, Drinks and Ideal Homes

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

This weekend we have quite a few things planned. Tonight we are having homemade pizzas and then heading out into Camden for drinks. Tomorrow we have dinner with friends and the day will be spent either mooching around Ikea or at the Ideal Home Show. I'm not hugely fussed about the show, but I won tickets, and if there is one rule that I follow in life, it's never say no to free tickets.

Happy weekend folks!

Most popular post on the blog this week: Photographer Tone Molnes Identity by Torbjorn Sandbakk

Tracks on Loop: Watches and Fireworks

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

This weekend in London the is the Salon QP, an exhibition of high-end watches and boutique British watch brands. We have been going since we arrived in the UK and thoroughly enjoy it so if you're into watches then make sure you head on over. There is nothing better than to finally get some facetime with a watch that you have been ogling over in the press.

Then on Saturday it's the Lord Mayor's festival, which normally means a parade and fireworks. This year though, after enormous firework displays for the Jubilee and then the Olympics they have decided to hold off, which means that I have officially missed every firework display this year in London. Ah well, nothing that a dinner with some good friends and a few bottles of wine won't fix! 

Happy weekend!

Most popular post on the blog this week: Handart by Marco Moccia

Tracks on Loop: Remember, remember...

Five great tracks to help you kickstart your weekend

This weekend is the closest weekend to the 5th November, which means that it's Bonfire Night here in the UK, yay! Although ridiculously barbaric when you stop to think about it, I absolutely love bonfire night. One thing I would say though is that this is not a weekend that London does well, it is much more of a village fete than a big town kind of affair so if you are in London this weekend, my advice would be to escape to a nearby hamlet to experience Guy Fawkes night in all it's gory glory.

Sparklers, toffee apples and fireworks, what's not to love?

Happy weekend folks!

Most popular post on the blog this week: Emma Kabir's Self Promotional Pack