This week's TT Test is taken by the great American singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier [link] . Her songs have been covered by many artists ...

This week's wake up song is Psapp's 'Sad Song '. The song sounds so crunchy it always makes me smile & even if the refr...

Just finished reading 'A Monster Calls'. The book's own history is worth telling. Siobhan Dowd was a children's writer who d...

I have developed a bad habit of not setting time aside to really listen to albums in their entirety. I tend to hear a new song I like &...

This week's wake up song is performed by the legendary Alberta Hunter. The beautiful 'Darktown Strutters' Ball' was written...

London is so beautiful & sunny at the moment, I am spending a lot of time outside, discovering new places especially the markets which...

This week's TT Test is taken by Sarah Waters [link] one of Britain's best loved novelists. Her first novel 'Tipping the Velvet...

London is super loved up today !! This morning there was not a sound in the park or on the roads, everyone was watching the wedding. It...

This week's wake up song is from the German band 17 Hippies (actually, there are only 13 of them !). I've recently discovered this ...

I caught the exhibition 'Last Days of the Comet' at the Hayward Gallery last week. This is number 7 of the British Art Show Series...

I saw the Neil Labute play 'In a Forest, dark and deep' last night, basically because a friend of mine has a crush on the actor Math...

This week's wake up song is the gorgeous 'Mexico City' by Jolie Holland. I'm embarrassed to admit, although I was transfixed...

Saw a great movie last week 'Incendies' an adaptation of the acclaimed play by Wajdi Mouawad, and directed by French-Canadian direct...

This week's TT Test is taken by the writer Joanna Briscoe [link] whose novels have received great critical a cclaim for their psycholog...

If this week's wake up song doesn't wake up you up there is no hope for you ! Mama Rosin are a Cajun band from Switzerland (which s...

On Sunday I visited the most peculiar shop in London (ok, maybe I exaggerate and that honour should go to 'Blustons' in Kentish Tow...

If you have a free afternoon to catch a new movie I recommend 'Howl'. It tells the story of the events which shaped Allen Ginsberg...

There are a few new photos at the 'Recent Photos' section [link] . Hope you enjoy! love tt Photo (c) Sylvie Bardet

My wake up song this week is from the German trio of Brandt Brauer Frick and the track 'Bop'. I have a real weakness for this kind o...

Recently I mentioned a blog that I enjoyed during the holiday season written by a Swedish woman Sophie Sarin [link] . The stories of her ru...