by Nicola Manasseh | May 31, 2024 | Newsletter
The idea to have curtains in my bedroom first came to me back in January. I spent a couple of weeks debating with myself if curtains would allow me to roll up the blinds and have the two windows open at night for some air and yet keep my bedroom dark enough, like I...
by Nicola Manasseh | May 3, 2024 | Newsletter
On an evening stroll around Belsize Village, I chanced upon such a beauty that I instantly fell in lust. A sleek two-seater Ferrari, translated in my imagination to a regal black panther, compelled me to take a photo. As I reluctantly walked away I was thinking that...
by Nicola Manasseh | Mar 22, 2024 | Newsletter
Call me behind time but I only just watched the 2020 Oscar winning Nomadland. What I love about this beautifully scripted and superbly filmed movie is how it shows the power of a kind community to help the heart broken protagonist, played by Francis McDormand, to keep...
by Nicola Manasseh | Feb 22, 2024 | Newsletter
I’m a hyper local lass. It could be a habit left over from lockdowns, but truth is everything I need is in Belsize Park or Hampstead or on the Finchley Road. In the spring and summertime, I might not even bother to go to a nearby park to get my nature nourishment,...
by Nicola Manasseh | Jan 14, 2024 | Newsletter
Perhaps like me you were coughing through the last days of 2023 and as soon as Secret Santa had been played out, you found yourself several films and series later at New Year’s Eve with a traditional list of resolutions, or, as imaginative blue-sky thinkers might...