Fiona grew up in the Scottish Borders and has spent much of her adult life moving between cities — Edinburgh, Manchester, then London — before eventually settling in York. She spent three years writing a travel column for a regional Sunday supplement and has since gone freelance. Her work focuses on discovering overlooked corners of Britain: coastal villages, inland market towns, walking routes with a good pub at the end. She is an enthusiastic but admittedly slow runner and keeps a sporadic travel journal she has never shown anyone.
Costume design does more than make characters look convincing. Clothing helps establish period, class, occupation, mood and personality before a character says very...
ByFiona CarrellJuly 23, 2026August is a good month for keeping a journal because it produces so much disposable evidence: train tickets, exhibition leaflets, café receipts, pressed...
ByFiona CarrellJuly 15, 2026Clerkenwell sits between the City, Bloomsbury and Islington, but its appeal is not that it feels untouched by London. Quite the opposite: the...
ByFiona CarrellJuly 12, 2026The school run begins long before anyone steps through the front door, often starting with the quiet click of a kettle and the...
October 29, 2026Maximalist interiors begin not with an instruction manual or a shopping list, but with the quiet accumulation of a life lived in full...
October 29, 2026British landscape painting has rarely been a simple exercise in passive observation; instead, it operates as a contested ideological space where national identity,...
October 28, 2026Downshifting life begins the moment you realize that the ladder you have been climbing might be leaning against the wrong wall entirely. It...
October 26, 2026The dinner party remains a fascinating social form that reveals much about how we live, connect, and negotiate our relationships in modern spaces....
October 26, 2026Regional accents Britain communities rely on every day are much more than charming vocal habits or geographical souvenirs. They function as living, evolving...
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