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Shop at Maison Bertaux, one of my favourite shops in London, is closing.

Today they started the closing down sale, with 30% off.

It’s really quite upsetting. I remember before Shop at Maison Bertaux existed - when Pippa and Max ran The World According To… and before that, when it was confusingly (for anyone else you spoke to) just called ‘Shop’. I was delighted when Shop re-opened, in one of the best cake shops in Soho.

I guess it’s a sign we’re really not spending as much on luxury items. I’m saddened, it’s such a shame we’ll be left with only the mire that is the high street, if the smaller boutiques now close.

Where am I going to find the perfect A.P.C. dresses, or lust after Repetto ballet shoes? Not that I can afford them at the moment…

No Age have released Teen Creeps on 7″.

I love this track, I love the artwork, I love No Age.

Get it from Sub Pop here.

Listen to the new B-Side - Intimate Descriptions below.

You can get it here,  resized to suit. Thanks to the terribly talented Adrian Fleet [www.adrianfleet.com]

11am: A club sandwich at the Cite de la Musique cafe, before the Serge Gainsbourg exhibition.

1pm: Walking along the Canal St. Martin.

1.30pm: Wishing we were hungry enough to eat at the Hotel du Nord.

4pm: Starting to get dark, by the Louvre.

I’m lamenting summer already, this mixtape may well reflect that.

Here’s my favtape mixtape #1.

Huffduffer is a very simple idea which works so well.

Find audio files from the web, pop them in your own podcast.
You’ll just need to paste in the link to an audio file, then write a little about the audio file you’re ‘huffduffing’.

Here’s mine, with a little Atlas Sound just in time for Hallowe’en.

If you’re really keen, you can subscribe to a podcast of all that i’ll huffduff in future.

The Cornerhouse.

Canalside.

Hannah.

The Hacienda.