According to this over at the BBC website, there are plans to turn Bloomsbury back into the cultured, intellectual village it once was, and which some people who haven't visited believe it still is. Traffic will be limited around the British Museum and University College London, a number of squares will be pedestrianised and Tavistock Square will become "London's Peace Garden". (I might be wrong, but I thought TS was already known as "the peace park" - because of the Ghandi statue... although recent events have added a strange and unpleasant irony.)

On Tuesday, it was the Telegraph; today, the Times... both inspired by the revamped Brunswick Centre, both extolling Bloomsbury as central London's property hotspot du jour. (Rat and Mouse question: when the lawyers and media people and Rupert Everett move in, where do all the low-income earners who lived there before go? Isn't that the mystery of gentrification.)

And speaking of poor people and gentrification and mysteries... what in the name of all that's holy was Kirstie Allsopp's sister, Sofie (like "Sophie", but more expensive) doing co-presenting The Best & Worst Places To Live 2006 on Channel 4 last night? What was the reasoning? Kirstie can't do it, but her sister looks and sounds similar... nobody'll notice. If you missed it, click the above link for a series of short films, including the notorious Hackney episode, which has caused more than a little anger.

The Sunday Times reported on the latest hurdle as Camden Council's planning department sits to discuss Argent's 600 page document on the future of the King's Cross wasteland. Has regeneration ever been discussed so much, and yet taken so long? Matthew Goodman attempts to find out, with a very interesting look at the state-of-play across London, including Elephant & Castle, White City, Battersea Power Station, Arsenal and, of course, the Olympic East End. Read it, here.

My studio is in the sitting room, and the white walls are covered in pages ripped out from magazines. The people and the pictures change all the time. Sometimes I have nothing on the walls, and if I get really fed up, I take everything off and just write on the walls.

Not something most landlords would like the look of on a Tenant Assessment Report, is it? But celebrity-obsessed artist Stella Vine loves her fridge-less, curtain-less, bed-less, heat-less, trash-mag-packed life in Bloomsbury and doesn't mind telling the world. Especially when she has a new show starting next week.

If you're not doing anything tomorrow, there's still time to check out a bargain, courtesy of Stern Studios. It's in Russell Court in Bloomsbury, in one of those solid 1930s blocks managed by the residents. It measures 16 by 12 (not bad for a London studio), includes a little hallway (which seems to somehow psychologically separate the studio flat from the hotel room), a decent-sounding bathroom and kitchen, and a 99-year lease. And it's on at £150,000 - which, for that location, is good. If you're interested, go here and scroll down.