Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Hey! York can do culture too!


Noah explores colour a la St. Ives' finest.

Mad About the Girl


Noah visibly melts during an Auntie Jess embrace (some say she bought his love with blueberries).

If you're happy and you know it


Ah! Glorious days en famille in Berlin. Jess, Soren, Finley and Tom Elliot Smee treated us to three weeks of bliss in our very favourite city. Noah took to his feet in celebration, and the smiles were never far from our lips.

Eis, glorious eis.


The local Eisery (!?), purveyors of the finest chilli chocolate ice cream known to humanity. Our intention was for Noah to sample it and be discouraged from chocolate forever more. But no. It went down, fierce chilli kick and all. Foiled again.

The air's pretty thin up here...


Uncle Soren gives Noah (in shoes! shoes!) the ride of his life.

A Detour for Corbusier


Oh! Beauty! Thy name is Corbusier kitchen! A recreation of one of The Big C's stunning, efficiently small kitchens from Unite D'habitation in Marseille. Many of his ideas seem presient, given their attention to compact dwellings (and his fundamental of raising all buildings off ground level could have been designed for York...). A retrospective at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (along with a stunning and humungous Bauhaus exhibition).

Our Bard Finley 'Greensleeves' Smee


Noah urges Finley to uke that uke just one more time...

Starsky and Hutch on the ET hunt


Finley and Tom Elliot Smee launch their back-the-the-seventies style manifesto. Noah became their first official signatory and is stretching his hair by the day, determined that it kisses his courdrouy'd shoulders by Christmas.

Berliner chic

But the chooks just keep running away...


At one of Berlin's urban farms. The guinea pigs will never quite be the same again...

Auntie Jess delights Noah at Wannsee



Noah... the classic Brit abroad.