BOOK WORMS Life David and my mother share a passion for books. They devour them. This Christmas my mother gave David a fascinating book she had just…
HICKS-ISMS Design When creating our latest collection, GrapHicks, we were clearly, as many others before us, inspired by David Hicks, and most particularly his geometric alphabet.…
Ring The Bell Life A few years ago, realizing that we had celebrated so many New Years together, David and I thought it was cause for a big…
A non-traditional traditional holiday Life As a child, I was always a little confused as to why the Father Christmas I met on Christmas Eve always smelt faintly of…
Top Banana’s Asparagus Tart Recipe Roots Apparently, asparagus is known to contain all sorts of good things that somehow naturally lift your spirits, and my goodness we can all do…
100 Miles Life The only disappointing thing about Switzerland covered in snow, was that it’s hard to ride a bike. Rather understandably, no bike was in sight…
New Year. New You. Really? New Chapter New Moon. New Year’s resolutions. New You. Really? Well, not the new moon or the New Year because those happened (seen here at the…
Mrs. Astor’s Chill Out Room Life So my car was broken into and everything robbed, a surprise snow storm stole our trip to Scotland and then an extreme flu arrived,…
Sweet Reunion Life We reunited in the barn on a surprisingly chilly evening. The day had started out warm and fooled us. By supper time there was…
COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA Life My mother picked up her ringing phone. “Is that Lady Pamela Hicks?” asked a voice. “Yes, it is “ replied my mother “and whom…
Royal Navy Life This is my mother wearing her father’s naval monkey jacket. “Why is it called a monkey jacket?” I ask. “Lord knows,” she replied. Every…
Savannah on Windermere Life The year I was born, my father, David Hicks, built this alarmingly modern beach house, inspired by the Egyptian temple of King Zoser. The…
Chapters of Our Life Roots When David and I bought our home, Hibiscus Hill, twenty years ago, we inherited with it a box of Christmas decorations. Slightly worn, slightly…
A Goode Gift Roots “What do you want for Christmas?” I asked Domino. She answered very quickly and very definitively: “A robotic dog called Chip, that charges itself…
Elodie Roots “Je m’appelle Elodie,” she would say as an introduction, which was odd, because she was English. We became friends when I moved to the…
Creepy Covers Roots “That is really creepy” said Conrad, my 13 year old, when I showed him this picture. He is right of course. It’s actually beyond…
The Berkeley In Balance The smell of rose and peonies, the sound of Wimbledon on television, queues of cars slowly winding their way over the bridge at Henley…
Grab Life by the Throat Life Really scary things I have done: jumping out of an airplane, bungee jumping head first with feet tied together, and delivering a prize giving speech…
Living Life Well Collection “We need to leave at 11 o’clock on the dot” said my mother “and not a moment later.” We were driving to Kent to…
#IHQUEENSBIRTHDAY Life Street parties, mass gatherings and general nationwide Get Togethers started in the UK in 1919 as “Peace Teas” after World War I. This uniquely…