Hello everyone! Last Saturday we showed Brooklyn – what a lovely, nostalgic almost elegiac film. Mark Kermode called it a fairytale of New York and you couldn’t have had a more exquisite actor in Saoirse Ronan who is the sweet centre of this story of love, longing and identity. The
I don’t know about you, but the weather here hasn’t been typical of a British autumn. It’s been warm and benign with few frosts, and not a lot of rain either. Usually, I miss that ‘window’ of jacket-wearing weather as it’s gone straight from hot to cold. But not
I notice my last two hat posts weren’t identified as part of the ‘Hatwalk’ series. I started the monthly hat feature way back in February 2015 as a platform for my hats. I wear a different hat every month for this (of which the majority are from charity shops
Hi everyone Another busy week doing this and that meant I hadn’t had much time to do another blog. But, not to worry I said to myself. I know that the next post is going to be about Autumn/Fall clothes. So far, so good, and let’s be honest, a bit
I can’t believe it – this is the 5th season of our film society. We showed a wonderful French film, La famile Belier, which is set in a village not far from Paris and is about a French farming family whose members are profoundly deaf, apart from their one daughter.
I don’t know about you but I’m wearing my Autumn clothes now so that’s what I’ll be talking about in my next post. But I thought I’d show you some more photos of our short break in France and tell you about my buys in, yes, that’s right, a charity
I was planning a third post on France, but instead I’m having a rant. On Sunday I glanced at a headline, which stated that there was a radical plan for old age that had been leaked to the press. I got quite excited, but reading it made me want to
Another town, another hat, and some great street photography – thanks Mr Frugalfashionshopper! I’d decided to leave my lovely straw hat (see previous post) behind as the airline I was flying on has very strict rules about what you can and can’t carry-on. Actually, as soon as you start gathering
Gosh, my packing was way out of kilter. Again! I mean I managed to get a capsule wardrobe, plus two pairs of shoes and all my makeup and other stuff into a cabin-sized suitcase. But I packed on a cold day, so I took out all the hot weather gear
Hi everyone I need your help. I’m meeting a journalist quite soon who will interview me for a book about older women and the wisdom they’ve gained, possibly called ‘Older and Wiser’ (the title could change, of course, as it’s early days). Now this is very exciting and I’m humbled