Launching a new album in a hotel in Blackpool, selling room nights as tickets... Nice!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/06/gruff-rhys-hotel-shampoo-interview

She is deadly - we have just bought matching *tiny tiny* assassin knife brooches from a shop in Angel

(we are now having cocktails in a very nice bar and pretending to be 'looking for our next target').

Reading station - as shot using hipstamatic (as recommended by @indiaknight - the app, not the station).

Camera apps for the iPhone are ten a penny, but few produce results which merit keeping. The hipstamatic app itself is beautifully designed, allowing you to swap lenses, flashes and films in your 'camera' but also to buy different packs of accessories (a brilliant use of the iPhones 'in app' purchasing capabilities).

The neatly designed retro themeing makes the app a joy to look at (think the cool graphics used so sucessfully by lomo - only without the hefty price tag) and most excitingly the images it produces are really quite beautiful - with the different accessory combinations providing a potentially limitless number of permutations, and genuinely interesting images - I can't wait to play.

Available from the iPhone App store for £1.19

Today I arrived in belgique to stay in the salmon palace. Amongst a plethora of other activities we took weepette for a walk. Alas we were so enthusiatic we broke him and he went all lopsided - luckily he now *seems fine* and is currently appealing for biscuits from waffles tintintin.

Having spent a lovely morning running around London with the exceptionally talented Natasha Perkins (soon to graduate CSM womenswear student and my exflatmate) I have again come
Back to broadway Market, and spoiled myself by taking up a window seat in the lovely Italian restaurant on broadway Market. Not only is the pizza superb, but the staff are brilliant and the people watching is second to none.

Currently I am watching a man in the barbershop over the road having his hair cut, this is strangely compelling.

Broadway Market is next to London Fields in East London, and until now is only somewhere I visited after dark, for the amazing gastropub The Dove (which boasts an extremely comprehensive selection of belgian beers and food, juxtaposed with Thai themed bric-a-brac, oddly the combination works extremely well).

Now that I have finished the job of doom, and am no longer having to torture myself in the name of excel, I can do things like this - alas not forever, but at least until my batteries recharge and the next job happens.