Shoreditch

Streetview in Shoreditch

Pattern Lab

I saw this store window in Soho on Saturday evening. It seems I am not alone with my love of patterns.

£113,019,926.00

I had my hopes high this morning. There was a jackpot of £113,019,926.00 in EuroMillions lottery yesterday and I read in the news that there was only one winner. Sadly, it was not me.

Anniversary

There are coins and there are Coins. I discovered one of the nicest two pound coins last week. It has been made for the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth last year. I shall keep this beauty in my treasury.

Can one love patterns too much?

Sugar beans, cucumber and baby plum tomatoes in heavenly order.

Borjomi mineral water

I had my Saturday lunch at Maroush Express, my favorite Lebanese restaurant in London. I ordered sparkling water to drink with my usual houmous and tabouleh. I got a bottle of Borjomi mineral water which turned out to be excellent, just the right amount of bubbles.

After finishing my lunch I started examining the Borjomi bottle etiquette. It has the name Borjomi written with Roman and Georgian alphabet on it. The Georgian alphabet look so beautiful. They have an ancient feel to them although they were discovered only in 405AD, much later than their Roman cousins. It also turned out that Borjomi is a small but famous town in Georgia and renowned for its healing mineral water.

Now I am waiting my next encounter with Borjomi.

FT graphics

Graphics by Angus Greig for Financial Times

I have become a fan of Financial Times' graphics. They are simple yet informative and very Bauhaus, like the graph from the FT Money issue from last week.