The top floor attic space of a building has a certain charm – a removed and inspirational sense of ‘borrowed space’. Here, beneath the roof tiles at whitespace, there’s a sense of privacy, a certain creative freedom, and the added bonus of bird’s eye views.

So much has the ‘green’ culture moved over to the main stream that even Sainsbury’s sells packets of seeds and has been doing so for weeks already.

It’s been a poignant week. Steve Jobs launched the iPad, hopefully the birth of yet another creative conduit just as one of the greats sadly dies, American Author, JD Salinger.