How very un-rock-and-roll.

The game’s up! The struggle to hang on the last vestiges of street credibility is over! And I work so hard at it, as well. (See below, ad infinitum.)

But when faced with THIS, which will be gracing the racks of newsagents and supermarkets across the UK for the rest of the month, I might as well roll over and admit defeat.

Yes, it’s our cottage kitchen. Three years after the famous photo-shoot (scroll down to the third paragraph), the readers of Period Living magazine have finally been deemed ready for the paradigm-shifting interior design concept which we have dubbed New Rustic Minimalism.

Here’s an extract from the full article.

Oh, and I bought my first pair of vari-focals last week. You can’t fight your destiny, can you?