Oooh, look at me posting at 4pm in the afternoon. I haven’t done that for years. Well, that’s because this is a frivolous post. This morning I gave myself a morning off to go shopping. I trawled the Charity Shops of Banbury, and pretty much came up a blank, half of them were almost completely
Despite the doom bringers promising more cold weather to come, I’m relieved to feel a touch of spring in the air. It promises fresh, line dried clothes, afternoon picnics by the river and, most importantly, lovely summer frocks. During the summer I don’t necessarily always fancy florals, but there’s something about the arrival of spring
Today this is kind of a book review, but more just a book recommendation. The book is Orchids on Your Budget by Marjorie Hillis and I actually bought it some time ago, but have only just got around to telling you how fabulous it is! It’s actually a reprinted version of a book first published
Hello, I’m here, didn’t want you all to think I’d abandoned you or anything. I’m going to start this post with a big thank you to everyone for their thoughts and lovely words on my last post about my Grampy. It really means a lot and is much appreciated. In more bad news my Nana
It was aaaallll the way back in January last year when I made the man himself, Hercule Poirot, my style icon. Since then I keep meaning to add another very stylish cast member to the style icon ranks, but it seems every time I plan to I read another blog somewhere about her and I
This is the last of the lipsticks I have been sent by PRs to review…. I will be purchasing some of the more common brands myself to try out (so expect some cheapies!) and I might put out another shout to the PR world for lippies to try! This time it’s another brand I hadn’t
The title of this post pretty much sums up my weekend! This outfit is bought to you courtesy of my new Heyday! trousers. When I saw this new fabric on the Heyday! website I just had to have them. They’re a gorgeous grey and black pin stripe wool, and even better these are a size
I thought I’d do a little hair tutorial today. The Page Boy was a popular style in the 1940s. It’s a smooth hair style rather than a really curly or wavy one, with curls at the bottom the hair tucked under. I think of this as one of my “lazy” hair dos. When I wash
I remember once a cashier in M&S asked me where I bought my clothes from. She’d gushed about my hair as I had a little fringe roll and we had a little chat about pin curls. But at the time I was wearing a top from Matalan, a Laura Ashley Skirt and New Look Shoes.