Sitting in the launderette reading a copy of last week's TV Guide, I contemplated my upcoming BAFTA attendance. More specifically, I'd just worked out that by the time I'd stuck my smalls in the dryer and lugged them all the way home down Balham High Road I would have just...

Awesome Jumper Land. Magical Escape Land. Best Place to Grow a Beard Land. But to what land of beards, jumpers and escapes are we referring? Iceland, of course.

Travel and journeys are all about seeing things through the filter of your own unique perspective, and Iceland in particular seems...

What is it that breeds innovation and creativity on a small island in the middle of the North Atlantic? Well, something or other is doing the job, seeing as Icelandic design is booming at the rate of its Scandinavian sisters - countries long-renowned for their stark yet elegant design credentials....

Sitting in a workshop entitled 'How to have Better Conversations' I suddenly begin to feel rather ridiculous. Have we become obsessed with 'bettering' ourselves? We all know the drill. These days if we don't open up and explore/analyse/dissect every tiny subsection of our inner psyche we're deemed abnormal.

We...

Once upon a time, long before I moved to London, I used to enter Oxfam with a heady sense of adventure about the the delights I was sure to discover. And discover I did, knocking aside the elderly in my greedy quest to rifle through the rails, gathering great swathes...

Some important things to remember when visiting Iceland: never throw a stone in case you hit an elf, don't knit on the doorstep or you might lengthen the winter and don't be seduced by a small man trying to teach you magic.

Icelandic folklore is absolutely fascinating and what's...