Not sure if this is meant to be a water jug or pitcher, but it makes for a pretty vase to hold bluebells and may even be mid-century rather than…
While trying hard to maintain a low level of pottery and crockery, I’ve had my eye on this little white Japanese-style teapot with bamboo handle for a while, sitting unloved…
This year, I have only been – so far – acquiring clothes in these colours. And not really acquiring much at all, in a continuing self-embargo (well, not quite, but a good…
To Portobello Market, round the corner to the Golborne Road stalls, and D made a beeline for a couple of crates filled with scarves. Nine rather fabulous paisley and patterned…
Again on the subject of familiar themes in my collecting/buying – striped T-shirts are just one repeat purchase – I have gained another satchel. On the way to Kings Cross to catch…
Back in Brighton (well, Hove, actually) for a wedding, we stayed overnight for the first time in several years – giving us the chance to go to the Sunday morning car…
One green dress, then another… in the end, I did not wear the emerald satin Vivien of Holloway halterneck to the Hove wedding, but this darker and less shiny one…
One of my lockdown projects has been to redo my charm necklaces, which have always been a bit experimental – mostly oddments from broken pieces of costume jewellery and things found…
While my everyday and workaday wardrobe gets more modern and, I admit, more mundane, I still like a vintage-style party frock. This spotted one has fallen out of favour; too synthetic…
An interesting cuff, neckline or sleeve on an otherwise plain shirt is always worth a look and while I’m still baulking at buying anything new from Toast, when it turns…
The Usual Shop 