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I am a shameless glutton, hyperaesthete and mélomane who decided to plunge headlong into a Phd programme in art history a few years ago. I am an aspiring musicologist on the side...

Life up in the ivory tower can be humdrum. This blog was started as a divertissement to help this academic and shopaholic stay sane and stay afar from online stores.

I also see this as a chance to develop a more colloquial, mainstream writing style. Simon Schama and Tim Page share first place in my pantheon of favourite authors.

Exhibitions, live concerts, note-worthy epicurean discoveries, fashionable wants, random bits of whimsy, and my new pefume obsession will be the most prominent leitmotifs running throughout this blog.