Hi everyone Apologies for not writing a Frugalfashionshopper post for some time. Life got in the way! I went to see my aunt in Oxfordshire and stayed a couple of nights with my daughter in Lewes again, but I haven’t been idle in the writing department as I’ve written many
Hi everyone I thought you might like to see two charity shop dresses I bought in June in my local charity shop in Brighton. Here’s one I’m really happy with. It’s made of 100% viscose which is quite sustainable and it’s great to wear in the hot weather. And yay
Hi everyone Do you see that title? Those you who live outside the UK I have to tell you we had a mini-heatwave last week, which was just wonderful and coincided with my stay at my daughter’s house in Lewes. We had a fab time there And we had many
Hello everyone It’s almost mid-May and up to a few days ago I was still wearing socks and long-sleeved winter woolies and sleeping under a winter duvet. Last week we had frosts in the morning – it’s been so unseasonably cold here in the UK. And yet it’ll be June
Hi everyone I’m still doing an end-of-the-month review (a trifle late this month) but as you can see it is no longer called Lockdown Diaries, as it’s now just a roundup of events, happenings, clothes I might have bought that I haven’t shown you, films and television that I have
Hello everyone Apologies for not writing a post for nearly two weeks. Life just got in the way! I’ve been very busy and did a lot of stuff last week and this, with appointments to go here, there and everywhere, and hey, I had my hair cut! Here I am
I wasn’t exactly the first in the queue, but just after lunch on Monday I was in my local charity shop and wow, did it feel great to be back. It was also very safe as there was only one other person in the shop apart from the manager, which
I’ll be 75 next birthday (in June) and I often think along the lines of How.Did.That.Happen, this ageing thing? Because it creeps up on you and then boom, it’s there! I’ve said this before, that when I was 40 I thought no different to a 30-yr-old, same when I was
Hello everyone There will be more about this at the end of the month but today (Monday 29th March) some of the severe restrictions we’ve been living under since Christmas are being removed, and we can now visit other people and sit in their gardens – three cheers to that! I
It’s mid-March, which is about the time we get very mixed weather here in the UK. Sometimes it’s freezing and when I read of other bloggers who live in the northern hemisphere having temperatures reaching 70F (that’s 21C to us and a warm mid-Summer’s temperature) I just marvel as it’s