As most of you know I’m down-sizing big-time to a flat (or apartment, as they say over the pond). It will have 2-bedrooms, a living area and a small kitchen and bathroom. And no garden. I’m ready for this. I
I don’t know if you remember my jackets and jeans post last year but if you look here, you can see I tend to wear short, not-quite-cropped jackets, that, to be honest, often leave me feeling a bit chilly (because
Thank you so much for all those lovely comments wishing me well going on the cruise and then saying you were pleased I was back. You’re all lovely and I appreciate you lots. In that first post written after I
Hello everyone, and a warm welcome to all, and especially those of you who dropped by and signed up after a mention on Tricia Cusden’s recent blog post on street style and her new hat. Yes, I do love hats
Down south where I live in the UK, today’s a proper frosty winter day with cold weather forecast for the rest of the week. So I should be talking about keeping warm and wearing winter woollies. Instead, I’m writing about
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
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.
Well not exactly, I went up to London to see the exhibition, Fashioning a Reign: 90 years of style from the Queen’s wardrobe. The exhibition ticket gave you access to the Buckingham Palace State Rooms and while I consider these
Hi everyone Despite Autumn clothes creeping into the shops we’re still having a great summer here in the UK. There’s hardly any rain and the temperatures are a pretty standard 22-24C (71-75F) and the humidity is OK. And I’ve been
I promised I wouldn’t complain about the hot weather after our awful grey and damp winter. And I’m not. But Tuesday was the hottest day of the year topping 32C (89F) and I felt not far from heat stroke when