The Spoon Drawer

Have you ever stayed at a hotel and loved the design so much that you have wished you could take it home with you? Well apparently you are not alone. Stealing a hotel’s interior design concept (and sometimes a little more) appears to be the new trend. Bringing Hospitality Home – Literally when I saw the tweet from @TravelandLeisure linking to the article @peterjindberg had written regarding coveting interior design from hotels, I had to actually read over this twice before it really sunk in . Now I have to say, at first the title “The Art of Bringing Hotel Design Ideas Home” made me think it was going to be informing me of some interior design tips that will help me to transform my bachelor pad into a chic, sophisticated, ‘grown ups’ living space, suitable for inviting guests over. Well…it does, but I wouldn’t necessarily follow the path that many people have chosen to embark on unless you want to be banned from a lot of hotels and possibly arrested…that is, if you don’t read

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Have you ever danced to soca music? If you haven’t then you haven’t lived, my friend. Even if you don’t consider yourself a dancer in any way shape or form, sweet soca music is guaranteed to turn you into a booty shaking monster for hours upon end. It’s addictive, fun and just a little bit different from your average party music. Drop a fine soca tune into a set at a house party and people go wild or just plain silly. So, where does soca music come from and who brought it into existence? Well, we have the Caribbean  and a fine fellow called Lord Shorty to thank for this. For the record, he was not a real Lord, and at a towering 6ft three he was definitely not short. What he was however, was a musical pioneer. Born Garfield Blackman in Trinidad in October 1941, he later changed his name for the stage name Lord Shorty and eventually to Ras Shorty I. Lord Shorty, who became popular on the calypso scene in the Caribbean, took traditional calypso music and combined it with Trin