Isolation Creations

               There is a Christmas wreath making workshop I went to, some years ago now, that I think about probably once a month. Run by a friend and along with three other friends we went in the hope of catching up with each other. We also thought we’d be […]

Quarantine Chic

How green is your catwalk? How sustainable is your vision? How circular is your economy? These were the questions Vogue found dominating the Spring 2020 catwalks back in October 2019. They were legitimate questions and ones that once again will need answering. But not right now. Time, like fashion, changes quickly and these questions are […]

Dressed As Girl

Never did I think a fully made up man in a kaftan would make me cry. However, come this past Friday night, as I lay on Sister With Massive Laugh‘s couch, that’s exactly what I was doing. Crying at a man in a kaftan. Sure, I was tired, on my period and had just scooped […]

#differentyearnewroutinesameme

This year I noticed a lot of hate towards making New Year’s resolutions. There seemed to be a defensiveness from those who either don’t believe in them or those who can’t cope with the pressure of not fulfilling them. #differentyearsameme popped up a lot on the ruler of our 21st century lives ~ Instagram. #damnyouyousoulsuckingtimewaster.  […]

2018 Personal Highlights

Back in the heady days of 2012 I wrote an end of year summary about my own personal highlights. Come January 31st a slew of ’round up articles’ can be found in the media reminding us of the year that was ~ When Brexit took over every news show, Who wore what to the Royal […]

What to do with all our stuff

Last weekend I went to Somerset to help my parents oldest friends clear out ninety three years worth of someone’s precious belongings. Attached to the side of Terry & Judy’s beautiful cottage, in a hamlet near Yeovil, is an annexe where Terry’s mum Joy lived. She recently passed away and I was heading down to […]

Stir Crazy on the Island

It took me four seasons before I succumbed to the unhealthy addiction of watching Love Island. I managed to stay away for so long but was at a friends for dinner at the beginning of July and she MADE me watch it. She literally forced me so I had to. I knew that my addictive […]

#diditmyselfdidnti

I grew up with nothing. Literally nothing. Totally untrue of course but that’s what my ‘deprived’ teenage brain told me. It told me that I was at a disadvantage in the, seemingly, third world country I was living in as I didn’t have access to the things I so desperately needed. By third world I […]

The pen is mightier than the keyboard

As the process of buying a piece of jewellery, at the shop I work in, went from a handwritten receipt to a few taps on an Ipad I knew that I would never again hear those sweet words ~ “Oh haven’t you got beautiful handwriting”. Along with “You smell amazing” and “You’re how old?!” it’s […]

Same Old Same Old

{Top L-R ~ Walk of shame Moscow, Rennes, JacquesMus, Caron Callahan. Bottom L-R ~ Simone Rocha, Caron Carahan, Rejina Pyo, Rachel Comey}   I recently executed an enormous Instagram cull and un followed about 400 people. Big news I know but this needs to be discussed.  Like the majority of the world I found I […]