The Amazing Josephine

They weren't exaggerating about Josephine being amazing. Desiree was brilliant. Finding a room half full of pink balloons was also quite fortunate! Thanks very much to Christopher Howell, the magician and his glamorous Assistant Desiree x

New Zealand

These are taken in Wanaka, a town on the South Island. I can't remember why we went there or indeed what we did when we were there but this campsite has always stuck in my mind. It was utterly in a time warp.

Assistants Continued

Hello and Happy New Year. The Assistants project is coming on now. Below is Elizabeth, my cousin and a Teaching Assistant. There was no lazy nepotism though Elizabeth went through a gruelling selection process as you can imagine. Elizabeth was the perfect subject, relaxed and in no hurry.


Below is Graham an Artists Assistant. I had no idea how common it was for Artists to have Assistants. Graham was telling me that the high profile Artists can have 20 Assistants beavering away in the background.

Lastly for now are Katharine and Sarah, the PAs to Nicholas Coleridge, the Managing Director of Conde Nast. They were brilliant, I stayed for far too long but we made good use of Nicholas's lovely office. Thank you to all my Assistants!

Croatia

I wasn't sure what to expect of Croatia but Dubrovnik especially, was unbelievably beautiful. The combination of such a beautiful, historically interesting town and a port brings cruise passengers with bum bags aplenty but its worth the scramble. The last photos are from Hvar which we happened to arrive on on national Hvar day. Hvar! This seemed to involve every bugger in Hvar doing a lap of the town square and then going to church. Cue miserable teenagers and what appeared to be 25 people dressed as the Pope.

Adam

Mr Beer onboard a ferry in Croatia. I'm sure he'll hate this but there's plenty of drawings of me on his blog so fairs fair.

Assistants

So I've started a new project about Assistants. The first is a friend of mine, the marvellous Trine Ronning Olsen. What a name! She tells me its the equivalent of Sarah Smith in Norwegian but we don't need to know that. Trine is a Stylists Assistant

Tourist