Mr and I went out for a spot of lunch earlier on and spied another downed tree, though this one decided destroying a car wasn't quite dramatic enough and so took out an entire house. We also spotted this emoticon pumpkin. What with it being Halloween, the streets were filled with small children clutching bags […]

We survived! Turns out we'd cleverly chosen one of the safest places in the city to live during the hurricane, being in central Brooklyn has its perks when most of the threat is coming from the coast. We stayed cosied up in our apartment listening to the wind and rain, with only an occasional flickering […]

I write this to you from our brand new apartment in Bedford Stuyvesant, about 30 minutes walk from where we were before. We moved a couple of days ago, as the guy we were subletting from was due back. However, silly old Sandy the hurricane got his flight cancelled, so poor Harrison the cat has […]

I've been a bad blogger, some of you wonderful readers have commented and have been left hanging by me, which is simply not on. From here on out, I promise to reply to all of your comments, I'll even try to go back and respond to old ones. This is the start of a new […]

Brooklyn is the land of thrift, with 2nd hands stores dotted all over… So it makes sense that there are regular flea markets every weekend too. After visiting the Fort Greene Flea a couple of weeks ago, I decided to take my mum for a look at the land of the hipster at the Williamsburg […]

The city treated us to another of its wonderful, sunny days so we decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge for some lunch in DUMBO and an explore of Brooklyn Heights. My little Mum (on her iPhone, as she ALWAYS is. She seriously has the attention span of a three year old) and my big […]

After my friends visit last week, my wonderful, unique Mum came over too, with a friend who'd never visited NYC before. One of the things she really wanted to do was take the Staten Island ferry so we took advantage of a beautiful sunny day to hop on the free ferry ride across the water. […]

Sunday saw the end of my lovely pals visit, so to avoid sadness we headed back over to Park Slope to find ourselves a bottomless brunch (endless mimosas being the perfect antidote to sad goodbyes). 5th Avenue was randomly filled with police and Ferraris, I find cars massively uninteresting, but maybe you don't, so here […]

This weekend my pal and I decided to visit one of the famous flea markets of Brooklyn. The weather was still unseasonably warm (though sadly less sunny) so we walked, via the Brooklyn library. The library was holding a book sale, and opposite was a farmers market, where we munched on delicious macaroni and cheese […]

A friend has been staying for the last week, which has been lovely and gave me a renewed vigour to explore the neighbourhoods surrounding where we currently live. On an especially warm day we decided to stroll through Prospect Park to Park Slope on the other side, for some lunch. As we are both born […]