Barewall gallery feature

Matthew Bourne interview

In stitches

North Staffordshire University Hospital's annual charity show opened at Stoke's The Rep Theatre on Wednesday. Click the link below to find out more.

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/art_and_design/journalism/staffslive/wordpress/2010/02/23/university-hospital-create-a-song-and-dance-at-rep-theatre/

The £56 million question

I could write a blog entry with some semblance of a thoughtful and articulate pondering, but instead I'm simply going to throw together several self-indulgent meanderings about, well... nice thingz.

Inspired by the couple who won £56 million last weekend, and tottering around Stoke-on-Trent asking its inhabitants the same question (getting "smashed" featured quite a lot), I considered what three items I would have to immediately go out and buy if I won that amount of cash.

1. Acne leopard print desert boots

Grrrr, I'm an animal. They've been out for a while, and goodness knows why I don't picture myself looking like Bette Lynch on speed, but these Acne desert boots have some kind of strange hold over me.

2. Rodarte crewneck

Now, I realise I could probably create something akin to this just by getting a battered-up old jumper and skewering it with a fork, and for a price of just under £1,800 (gulp!), I'd probably be wiser to. Again, in my ridiculous mind, I imagine I would look like a spindle-spider, adorned in my own cobwebs...

3. Quinny by Henrik Vibskov mad print rain poncho

I'D LOOK LIKE SOME SORT OF DEMI-GOD.

And I'd still have £55,997,803 to play with!