London Dollshouse Fair

I have more dolls' houses than I have - er - house room for. I went from 1/12 scale to 1/24 scale to give me more room to accumulate, but there are limits. (I just don't know them!)

Today I went to the fair in London's Docklands, and resisted the temptation to bring home another diddy house. I was disappointed that neither of my favourite makers was there. Dick of Skegness Dollshouses, who made my big Art Deco house, and Sue and Alan of Sue and Alan's Little Treasures, were missing from this fair as they had been from the last.

This is one of Sue and Alan's individually handcrafted Tudor houses. They made me one to my own specifications that lives in my bedroom.

I still managed to live up to my old habit of never doing things by halves, and I decided to buy some miniature paintings. As I couldn't choose between them, however, I ended up buying two sets of 3 each. The painter, Norman Whiting, is 76, and manages to paint his tiny pictures without a magnifying glass.

Bright Boy - Lesson 3 - One-Finger Exercise

Please complete succintly and with imagination the following sentence:
"If I was in the same room as Vincent D'Onofrio's super-long finger I would..."

Bright Boy - Lesson 2 - Tongue Exercises

Bright Boy - Lesson 1

When I first saw this episode, I didn't know anything about Vincent's marital state or family. When I looked at the little boy, I thought he looked enough like Vincent to be his son.

First for the groin-fixated:





































Then for the hand fetishists:






































Next for the Open-Necked Shirt Appreciation Society:

And finally for the lovers of the shoulders, back and torso:

Lips

I never used to notice lips, not even my own when I was putting lippy on. I didn't know that my lips were quite thin. I do remember noticing, when we met up after 30 years, that my old school friend who'd been a model did the old-fashioned thing of painting lipstick beyond her lips to make them seem bigger - it wasn't very becoming.

Then I found Vincent. Suddenly lips could be luscious, sexy and enticing. How had I never noticed before? I'd adored George Clooney for years without ever realising he had those almost-non-existent Cary Grant-like "man's lips".

So in celebration of the lovely Vincent's sensuous mouth, here are a few pictures from my collection.