Sunny Morning

Ah, how wonderful it is when after days of grey the sky is blue and sunshine spills out over the city!

Here a few impressions from today's morning walk though London - enjoy!

   Building cranes on Goodge Street

   Bunnies in a shop window

    Beautiful Charlotte Street Hotel
    - one of our favourite destinations for a drink on the terrace in summer.

                      Knitted art by Kate Jenkins at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery on Charlotte Street
   

Isn't LOVE just wonderful...

Ok, now today's the day - really the right day to wish you all a very Happy Valentine!
Dear fans, friends and customers, Tusch und Egon love you!

Happy Valentine Everybody!

Isn't it great that this cold, grey month of February, when everybody is yearning for the colours of spring, is brightened up in the middle by the celebration of Valentine's Day?!

Red roses and hearts greet us in nearly every shop window, patisseries offer delicious, beautifully pink and red decorated goodies, love messages on cards make us smile and people go searching for just the right gift for their loved ones. All this warms our hearts and makes life in winter a bit nicer.
Below we have quoted a few lines from Valentine poems - enjoy!

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
- Zora Neale Hurston

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
- Dorothy Parker

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
- Alice Walker

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda, "Love Sonnet XVII"

Featured in Top Gear Magazine!

We are delighted that the guys over at "Top Gear Magazine" like our fire extinguishing device just as much as we do and are featuring it in their February 13 edition! Top Gear Magazine thinks that "another extinguisher would ruin your style" - how right they are!

Of course it looks great in your home too...

Buy it here  

A Woman's Heart

A few days ago we snapped a photo of this humorous and beautiful drawing but have unfortunately forgotten where we found it. Nevertheless we want to share it with you, especially with Valentine's Day coming up soon!

London with icing

Icing on the cake: a dusting of snow lies outside our shop today. It started to snow this morning and hasn't stopped since. Quite romantic...

Regent Retro Toaster

 

 Regent  Retro Toaster by Rowlett

 

Retro is the new techno, and it doesn't get much more retro than the Retro Regent toaster. The Regent is more 70's than a flower-powered VW Beetle playing a Cat Stevens eight-track.

The Retro Regent comes in many colours - Saturday Night Fever white, Psychedelic yellow or Old Grey Whistle Test grey, Spacehopper orange is to name a few.

But the Regent is much more than just fun, funky and very, very flared. Oh yes, the Regent recently only went and took away the Home 2012 Exhibition Best British Product award at Earl's Court.

 

 

Until the Regent strutted away with the Ideal Home gong like John Travolta's grandkid, it wasn't even available on the retail market.

 

 

But the folk at Earl's Court thought the "Yellow one" was so unbelievably fab that Rowlett's been manufacturing them faster than you can say 'May the force be with you'. Well, the toast.

   

Truth is, Rowlett has actually been making these four-slot toasters since the 1970s. Which makes them accidentally retro.

And that's as groovy as it gets.

The main features of our toasters are

•           Made in Britain

•           The highest quality Controls. Time Switches (with ringer), Slot Selectors etc.

•           Pure Mica elements. (No nasty fumes & Silicone free)

•           No Chrome all Stainless Steel. No plastics except Knobs.

•           Heavy cast aluminium ends (Esprit Model)… Coloured.
•           Multi position slot selector switches for economy…no heating fresh air.
•           Virtually 100% recyclable ..if you ever get to that stage.
•           All models approved by BEAB/INTERTEK to the very latest specifications 
•           The World best toasters.

order your toaster here
The toaster is handmade and nearly always to order, so you would need to allow a bit of time for deliver.

Check out Today's Top Toast for new toast recipes!

 

 

 

 

 Available as app on the App Store.