The Weekend Opener
from Andrew Tuck
Want to improve your city? Buy a plant pot
You can use our mews as a cut through if you are on foot or a bicycle but a strategically placed bollard means that cars can’t. So, apart from the occasional van dropping off…
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Abroad church
1After Monocle’s 2025 planning session in Zürich this past week, I exited stage left and, instead of returning to London, went back to Palma de Mallorca. In Europe at this time of year, flying…
Proof positive
The thing about paper and ink is that there’s no going back. Digital publishing is a relationship without commitment – if you don’t like something on your website you can just take it down.…
London’s never-ending story
1Would we like to have lunch? Two people I know through Monocle, and who have become friends, were in London for a few days before heading on to Milan for the shows. Hanna and…
Recovery positions
1A choice: we could allow the cancer to spread and prepare for a few weeks, at most, of palliative care or we could put Macy, our fox terrier, through a gruelling operation that would…
Font of ideas
1Tyler invited the art-and-design team to spend two days in Paris. The plan was for everyone to visit the new offices and the site of an epic project that we will be unveiling at…
Welcome to the club
You can tell from the softening light that autumn is waiting in the wings. In a few weeks wardrobes will change, lives will slowly shift indoors. But, here in northern Europe, summer isn’t quite…
Breaking cover
One of the nice things about a return to Midori House this week was getting my hands on the September edition of Monocle – the mobility special on sale now. It was sitting on…
In search of lost summers
It’s been 20 years since we first came to Mallorca. On that initial foray, we stayed at the Portixol Hotel. It’s still there, sitting on a promontory by a small marina, a hospitality lighthouse.…
Part of the team
She has made this journey five times now. Two days in the car, a night on the ferry, just so her owners can always have her company. This time the adventure has had a…
Call of the open road
I’ve just settled with the insurance company. And I only have myself to blame. I was in Spain, on my own in a hired car, and could not get the satnav to do my…
