Ali - East London

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yPTpUJfNgJU/TfCQG4Udg6I/AAAAAAAAA_0/8qnl5Rdj-BA/s1600/_DSC0015_new-aliraw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yPTpUJfNgJU/TfCQG4Udg6I/AAAAAAAAA_0/8qnl5Rdj-BA/s1600/_DSC0015_new-aliraw.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hirtpMa9Vjc/TfCVMEnDMII/AAAAAAAAA_4/TnM71w_FVCw/s1600/_DSC0022_INNEW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hirtpMa9Vjc/TfCVMEnDMII/AAAAAAAAA_4/TnM71w_FVCw/s1600/_DSC0022_INNEW.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oA0tFaF_aH0/TeZGwwD6FsI/AAAAAAAAA-w/wXxtE1d1gdU/s1600/_DSC0024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oA0tFaF_aH0/TeZGwwD6FsI/AAAAAAAAA-w/wXxtE1d1gdU/s1600/_DSC0024.jpg" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JSkrjXaODKQ/TeZG09utAhI/AAAAAAAAA-0/mvg1KFmuQBc/s1600/_DSC0021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JSkrjXaODKQ/TeZG09utAhI/AAAAAAAAA-0/mvg1KFmuQBc/s1600/_DSC0021.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gJH9wXMuZ6I/TeZG4ZT_2oI/AAAAAAAAA-4/kpqayoz4CZE/s1600/_DSC0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gJH9wXMuZ6I/TeZG4ZT_2oI/AAAAAAAAA-4/kpqayoz4CZE/s1600/_DSC0005.jpg" /></a></div>This is a happy and a sad tale of a girl with two bedrooms. Ali, also known as <i><a href="http://alicocoepps.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Ali Coco Epps</span></a></i> is a master wordsmith, performer and filmmaker. She is probably someone I’d never want to play Scrabble with, as pondering over words brings her nothing but joy - even down to changing all the original words to cheeky anagrams on a menu board her brother picked up Islington.<br /><div class="MsoNormal">She is one of five inhabitants that live in this extraordinary space and has lived here for just five months. But as I took the pictures, the shed clock was ticking and by the end of the week, the little wooden bedrooms will be no more - meaning all the shed people have had to find new homes. She is very sad to leave this special place and the great people she has shared it with. But fortunately for Ali, her new pad is just one floor down, in this disused 1920’s factory building in East London.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">This is her new bedroom - equally as compact and as sweet as her shedroom. All that is missing is the bed, which I am sure is in there now.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-psnZ3iqdK9w/TedzHH0iGzI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/8L3bMVHdeaE/s1600/_DSC0053newpsd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-psnZ3iqdK9w/TedzHH0iGzI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/8L3bMVHdeaE/s1600/_DSC0053newpsd.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mfJGNrmBBys/TeZH2VH4JeI/AAAAAAAAA_A/uPrj1mNvuP0/s1600/_DSC0056.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mfJGNrmBBys/TeZH2VH4JeI/AAAAAAAAA_A/uPrj1mNvuP0/s1600/_DSC0056.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wzMH_pKzFD8/TeZH66raHGI/AAAAAAAAA_E/8msEfsHLk_s/s1600/_DSC0061.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wzMH_pKzFD8/TeZH66raHGI/AAAAAAAAA_E/8msEfsHLk_s/s1600/_DSC0061.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-koqRdx7l3Rc/TeZIAai7xkI/AAAAAAAAA_I/gcRgVcGdVhA/s1600/_DSC0062.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-koqRdx7l3Rc/TeZIAai7xkI/AAAAAAAAA_I/gcRgVcGdVhA/s1600/_DSC0062.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KQbrt9kZODU/TeZIEsP8TBI/AAAAAAAAA_M/IbQBxM0AjbQ/s1600/_DSC0065.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KQbrt9kZODU/TeZIEsP8TBI/AAAAAAAAA_M/IbQBxM0AjbQ/s1600/_DSC0065.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">She has collected some delightful things over the years, including the 1920’s circus outfit hung on the wall, and the red clock that <a href="http://alicocoepps.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Ali Coco Epps</i> </span></a>and her fellow performers try to include in every film they make, some of which can be seen on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/pattyandhills#p/u/2/1LzaA3dBigc"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Patty & Hills YouTube channel</i></span></a>. <br />I asked Ali<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"> </span>what she’d save her bedroom were on fire? She said, “There is so much stuff, like my 1930’s dressing table, that I would carry on my back, along with the black and white photograph of my Mum - she sat for <a href="http://stephendwoskin.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Stephen Dwoskin</i></span></a> in the 60’s, an avant-garde film maker. And every story I have ever written since I was three.”</div>

Ali - East London

This is a happy and a sad tale of a girl with two bedrooms. Ali, also known as Ali Coco Epps  is a master wordsmith, performer and filmmaker...

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Anna - North West London

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mTT27GwJ-RE/TVVXcNxxuHI/AAAAAAAAA28/vf938_TFJWg/s1600/IMG_3733.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mTT27GwJ-RE/TVVXcNxxuHI/AAAAAAAAA28/vf938_TFJWg/s1600/IMG_3733.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODyIWvi6AK8/TVVXhNFIewI/AAAAAAAAA3A/X6bhOFvR5EU/s1600/IMG_3771.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODyIWvi6AK8/TVVXhNFIewI/AAAAAAAAA3A/X6bhOFvR5EU/s1600/IMG_3771.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4JTgnWDoZE/TVVXnQ1LYgI/AAAAAAAAA3E/YEpe-LlayVg/s1600/IMG_3764.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4JTgnWDoZE/TVVXnQ1LYgI/AAAAAAAAA3E/YEpe-LlayVg/s1600/IMG_3764.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aZHoelORtYE/TVZTtpXEz3I/AAAAAAAAA3U/dhdglPiVeJM/s1600/IMG_3774.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aZHoelORtYE/TVZTtpXEz3I/AAAAAAAAA3U/dhdglPiVeJM/s1600/IMG_3774.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z4JTgnWDoZE/TVVXnQ1LYgI/AAAAAAAAA3E/YEpe-LlayVg/s1600/IMG_3764.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZHD7sDq5a2A/TVZU1qsU13I/AAAAAAAAA3Y/S9kkwc9NIjo/s1600/IMG_3781.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZHD7sDq5a2A/TVZU1qsU13I/AAAAAAAAA3Y/S9kkwc9NIjo/s1600/IMG_3781.jpg" /></a></div>This bedroom almost has an invisible line of division, of girl versus boy - it's a perfect example of an unconventional bedroom. Anna loves knick-knacks and vintage, she has her own blog called, <a href="http://www.yesbrianyoulookterrific.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Yes Brian You Look Terrific</i></span></a>. And her other half is a musician. So, in case you hadn't already guessed, this bedroom doubles up as a music studio and as a result Anna has had to seriously reign in her ‘stuff.’ As Anna says, she has had to create her own little areas, as her things were taking over. At first glance this room looks manic, but it actually feels quite peaceful, however, I think it does have the potential to get a bit hectic, especially when Anna's sorting through her clothes, her boyfriend is moving about, doing his music, and Arthur the cat is springing around getting up to all sorts of mischief. Once a timid rescue cat, Arthur is now a star in his own right and some of his antics can be seen <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://miaowmix.blogspot.com/2010/11/busy-just-being-busy.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>here</i></span></a> </span>on a blog called Cat Party.<br /><div class="MsoNormal">I asked Anna what she’d save if the bedroom were on fire, she said, “Well, obviously Arthur, and the computer, the computer is so important, it has all of my boyfriends music on it. And I’d quickly grab some photos too.”<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brNu23qggGo/TVVYjUniABI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/kNdMEj0GQFg/s1600/IMG_3754.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brNu23qggGo/TVVYjUniABI/AAAAAAAAA3Q/kNdMEj0GQFg/s1600/IMG_3754.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b>See more of Anna & Arthur - click on </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><a href="http://whatsinyourbedroom.blogspot.com/p/bed-heads.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>Bed Heads</b></i></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b>and scroll down</b></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b>Find Anna on Twitter </b><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/annabosworth"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>@annabosworth</b></span></a></span></div>

Anna - North West London

This bedroom almost has an invisible line of division, of girl versus boy - it's a perfect example of an unconventional bedroom. Anna lo...

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Alex - North London

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TTV7ujkApxI/AAAAAAAAA14/iKuE57DK8Kw/s1600/IMG_3595.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TTV7ujkApxI/AAAAAAAAA14/iKuE57DK8Kw/s1600/IMG_3595.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TTV7y7NdGgI/AAAAAAAAA18/4Skc9N60E0c/s1600/IMG_3606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TTV7y7NdGgI/AAAAAAAAA18/4Skc9N60E0c/s1600/IMG_3606.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TTV72bbkNGI/AAAAAAAAA2A/GNlNAIFL6C4/s1600/IMG_3607.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TTV72bbkNGI/AAAAAAAAA2A/GNlNAIFL6C4/s1600/IMG_3607.jpg" /></a></div>Alex has lived in London for two years and has recently come back from travelling around South East Asia. He’s a Banker and shares his place with three other guys. He’s in the process of studying for another Banking degree, hence the textbooks. His room is not as glamorous as I’d maybe expected, but it does have the stereotypical elements of  ‘the city boy’… almost like a teenage adult.<br /><div class="MsoNormal">When I asked Alex what he’d save if his bedroom were on fire, he said “ My laptop and my photographs from travelling that I’ve just had printed.”</div>

Alex - North London

Alex has lived in London for two years and has recently come back from travelling around South East Asia. He’s a Banker and shares his place...

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Kat - East London

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwQgDeb5I/AAAAAAAAA1Q/iCit1zeKgzw/s1600/IMG_3525.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwQgDeb5I/AAAAAAAAA1Q/iCit1zeKgzw/s1600/IMG_3525.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwXdISo8I/AAAAAAAAA1U/y3fePvhLUwA/s1600/IMG_3536.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwXdISo8I/AAAAAAAAA1U/y3fePvhLUwA/s1600/IMG_3536.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwb383CdI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/vLA92ru_DfY/s1600/IMG_3537.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwb383CdI/AAAAAAAAA1Y/vLA92ru_DfY/s1600/IMG_3537.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kat is a Producer for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gainsburyandwhiting.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Gainsbury and Whitin</i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>g</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and lives just a hop, skip and a jump from Old Street in East London.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She shares her converted flat with two other’s and her bedroom is neatly concealed at the far end of the living room, behind a couple of bookshelves. In contrast to the modernity of the rest of the flat, her bedroom feels more like a country cottage, with a smattering of nice bits: the rather fetching gnome given to her by a fit bloke when she worked in a shoe shop in her youth, the Peace print, that took her goes to get hold of and then actually cost her more to get framed.<br />When I asked Kat what she’d save if her bedroom were on fire, she said “I’m not into saving stuff that can be replaced – not interested in electrical items. I’d save the framed picture of my Mum and Dad, over there, on the bed frame, and this slide which was taken of my Mum and I, in 1987, on my first birthday.”</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwkJNVEgI/AAAAAAAAA1c/EgwZVuhl4PE/s1600/IMG_3542.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwo3VmamI/AAAAAAAAA1g/zlrKfKzRupE/s1600/IMG_3534.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwo3VmamI/AAAAAAAAA1g/zlrKfKzRupE/s1600/IMG_3534.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwkJNVEgI/AAAAAAAAA1c/EgwZVuhl4PE/s1600/IMG_3542.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TSWwkJNVEgI/AAAAAAAAA1c/EgwZVuhl4PE/s1600/IMG_3542.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b>See more of Kat - click on </b><a href="http://whatsinyourbedroom.blogspot.com/p/bed-heads.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>Bed Heads</b></i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b> </b></span><b>and scroll down</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b><br /></b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b>Find Kat on Twitter </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>@</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/KJD_KatDavey"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>KJD_KatDavey</b></span></a></span></span></div>

Kat - East London

Kat is a Producer for  Gainsbury and Whitin g  and lives just a hop, skip and a jump from Old Street in East London.    She shares her conve...

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Claire - East London

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0KPx5UY6I/AAAAAAAAAps/T0B1rHvBHwI/s1600/IMG_3219.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0KPx5UY6I/AAAAAAAAAps/T0B1rHvBHwI/s1600/IMG_3219.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0KX3uM9dI/AAAAAAAAApw/CNm0NvvHwQo/s1600/IMG_3226.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0KX3uM9dI/AAAAAAAAApw/CNm0NvvHwQo/s1600/IMG_3226.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0Ker8GfQI/AAAAAAAAAp0/1lnMASmwKO8/s1600/IMG_3234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0Ker8GfQI/AAAAAAAAAp0/1lnMASmwKO8/s1600/IMG_3234.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Claire has lived in her flat on the edge of Hackney Farm for three months, after having to move out of her old place where she held a regular supper club, </span><a href="http://greenonionguerillacooking.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Green Onions</i></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Her new home is too small to host supper clubs, and is now one of the two people behind the tasty, </span><a href="http://shacklewellnights.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Shacklewell Nights</i></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> - a hidden dining venture in Dalston. Like the pictures of her new food venue, her bedroom is warm and cosy and making me want to have forty winks. When I asked Claire, “What would you save if your bedroom were on fire?” she said, “The photograph of my Grandma from off my dressing table mirror. And my teddy bear, Willy, that was given me by my Granddad when I was born.” </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Find Claire on Twitter </b><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/everythingbut"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>@everythingbut</b></span></a></span></div>

Claire - East London

Claire has lived in her flat on the edge of Hackney Farm for three months, after having to move out of her old place where she held a regula...

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Keir - South Manchester

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YMoHTE-I/AAAAAAAAAqY/zeaS7wm9zx8/s1600/IMG_3107s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YMoHTE-I/AAAAAAAAAqY/zeaS7wm9zx8/s1600/IMG_3107s.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YSgfb-OI/AAAAAAAAAqc/G0D5Jsixemw/s1600/IMG_3128s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YSgfb-OI/AAAAAAAAAqc/G0D5Jsixemw/s1600/IMG_3128s.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YY80DxHI/AAAAAAAAAqg/xzYpuUsdDG8/s1600/IMG_3147s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YY80DxHI/AAAAAAAAAqg/xzYpuUsdDG8/s1600/IMG_3147s.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YfiQJ1xI/AAAAAAAAAqk/rlbqp_eFYsE/s1600/IMG_3141s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YfiQJ1xI/AAAAAAAAAqk/rlbqp_eFYsE/s1600/IMG_3141s.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Morrissey sang: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a rented room in Whalley Range</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do we get for our trouble and pain?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whalley Range!..</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...I wouldn’t say Keir's homestead is quite so glum.  The multi talented chap of </span><a href="http://www.inchstudio.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Inch Recording Studio</i></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.thedurutticolumn.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>The Durutti Column</i></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has lived in his Victorian, three storey house, in Whalley Range, for over seven years. And has set-up a temporary recording studio in there. He says, “Vini prefers working from home – it’s more chilled.” He is also a speaker obsessive and when he totted up his collection, he has sixteen speakers in his house alone. Including the two vintage, Quad ESL 57's that resemble copper heaters, on either side of the chimney breast in his bedroom. Apart from being brilliant to look at, Keir informs me that because of the Electrostatic technology they're better than any other domestic speaker. I asked Keir, if his bedroom were on fire, what would he save? He said “The Quads are pretty special, but not as special as the pictures of my daughter, Lily, so I’d take the photo album of her, from my desk.”</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YnGujMVI/AAAAAAAAAqo/w3PJNNDAqOg/s1600/IMG_3133s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0YnGujMVI/AAAAAAAAAqo/w3PJNNDAqOg/s1600/IMG_3133s.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>

Keir - South Manchester

As Morrissey sang:  Just a rented room in Whalley Range What do we get for our trouble and pain? Whalley Range!.. ...I wouldn’t say Keir...

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Chips for the Poor - North London

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0eYr6xAHI/AAAAAAAAArM/FWcAp1zmBx0/s1600/IMG_2784.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0eYr6xAHI/AAAAAAAAArM/FWcAp1zmBx0/s1600/IMG_2784.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0eeJSIT0I/AAAAAAAAArQ/ajh7_yzbW9c/s1600/IMG_2790.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0eeJSIT0I/AAAAAAAAArQ/ajh7_yzbW9c/s1600/IMG_2790.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/c4tp"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Chips for the Poor is a musician</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> living on the edge of Dalston in a flat amongst a maze like estate in De Beauvoir Town.  He’s lived there about a year and has pretty much done the rounds of East London. Destined to perform he comes from a family of natural born entertainers, claiming his Nan used to play the piano in her home, wearing flat cap and braces, leaving the door open for all the neighbours to hear. And his other Nan, played in a band in the war. My kind of gals, reckon they’d be great fun down the pub. His room is a collection of stuff gathered over the years, ranging from his very own nappy pin circa 1976 – 78 (which I asked him to hold - he must get his good hands from his ex-hand model Mum) a collection of books and DVD’s - some of a dark nature, and two great pieces of artwork courtesy of his brother, </span><a href="http://www.kidacne.com/blog/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Kid Acne</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…I asked him, if his bedroom were on fire, what one item would he save?... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At first he said a big bag of photos that he’d completely forgotten about and re-discovered recently - spending hours unearthing old memories. But then as we were in his bedroom, he said he’d also grab the T-shirt hanging on the wall - his brother screen-printed it for him round about 1995 and it’s a picture of Chips for the Poor with his cat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0eo2GUDuI/AAAAAAAAArU/rSXswEc7AXo/s1600/CHIPMIX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN0eo2GUDuI/AAAAAAAAArU/rSXswEc7AXo/s1600/CHIPMIX.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b>See more of Chips - click on </b><a href="http://whatsinyourbedroom.blogspot.com/p/bed-heads.html" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b>Bed Heads</b></i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b> </b></span><b>and scroll down</b></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b><br /></b> </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><b>Find Chips on Twitter </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/chipsforthepoor"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>@chipsforthepoor</b></span></a></span></div>

Chips for the Poor - North London

Chips for the Poor is a musician living on the edge of Dalston in a flat amongst a maze like estate in De Beauvoir Town.  He’s lived there ...

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Andrea & Andy - Manchester

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1Bf9kn8AI/AAAAAAAAAuY/zR4ijnzkqU0/s1600/BEDROOMAA_02s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1Bf9kn8AI/AAAAAAAAAuY/zR4ijnzkqU0/s1600/BEDROOMAA_02s.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1BqHBo9oI/AAAAAAAAAuc/py4iQZfaN5w/s1600/BEDROOMAA_01s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1BqHBo9oI/AAAAAAAAAuc/py4iQZfaN5w/s1600/BEDROOMAA_01s.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1BvMr1PNI/AAAAAAAAAug/M993tor-B1o/s1600/BEDROOMAA_03s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1BvMr1PNI/AAAAAAAAAug/M993tor-B1o/s1600/BEDROOMAA_03s.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the streets of Stretford, where Morrissey once roamed, you’ll find the large, but humble abode of Andrea and Andy. </span><a href="http://www.myspace.com/andrea_trout"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>She’s an all round Muso</i></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He’s a DJ and music creator, also known as</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.mrscruff.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Mr Scruff</i></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Destined to be together, they met in a darkened DJ booth, of a basement club in Manchester. Right at the top of their three-storey house, the low-lit bedroom is a sanctuary for escaping the aftermath of mad nights out and the hubbub of the daily grind. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked them both… If the bedroom was on fire, what one item would they save?…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrea, "I would save my two framed photographs, they are completely precious and irreplaceable. The picture of me when I was little with my Mum, was taken at a coach park on our way to London; it reminds me of happy times. And the second one was taken at my Graduation with my Dad. "Without a blink of an eye, Andy said, "My Wife."</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1B60jYAiI/AAAAAAAAAuk/hJ-iKyl1DiE/s1600/BEDROOMAA_04s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1B60jYAiI/AAAAAAAAAuk/hJ-iKyl1DiE/s1600/BEDROOMAA_04s.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div>

Andrea & Andy - Manchester

On the streets of Stretford, where Morrissey once roamed, you’ll find the large, but humble abode of Andrea and Andy. She’s an all round Mus...

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Kathryn & Dom - Greater Manchester

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1EnM-D-rI/AAAAAAAAAvA/QyXJ1BVoj3o/s1600/BEDROOM3S.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1EnM-D-rI/AAAAAAAAAvA/QyXJ1BVoj3o/s1600/BEDROOM3S.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1ErGc7oKI/AAAAAAAAAvE/gn1J6MRUcqc/s1600/BEDROOM2S.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1ErGc7oKI/AAAAAAAAAvE/gn1J6MRUcqc/s1600/BEDROOM2S.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1EvxXcCbI/AAAAAAAAAvI/6_aZvUez0Lo/s1600/BEDROOM1S.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_eI1SrlS42zM/TN1EvxXcCbI/AAAAAAAAAvI/6_aZvUez0Lo/s1600/BEDROOM1S.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathryn a Personal Assistant and Dom a Café manager live in a classic, northern, terraced house in Stockport. The place smacks of an old Lowry painting. The small streets filled with dark, red brick buildings and the occasional plume of smoke disappears from chimneys, into the sky. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I enter their house and in the words of a young Tracey Barlow ‘leave me alone, I’m going up stairs to listen to me tapes’…</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">  </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I climb the steep Victorian stairs, reach their bright little bedroom and grab myself a bit of northern pie.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…I asked them both “If the bedroom was on fire, what one item would you save?”… Kathryn did the talking and said – I’d take the box of photographs from under the bed because they go way back, not just my family and friends but Dom’s too. Then Dom would follow me out with all my jewellery.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div></div>

Kathryn & Dom - Greater Manchester

Kathryn a Personal Assistant and Dom a Café manager live in a classic, northern, terraced house in Stockport. The place smacks of an old Low...

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