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…
And finally for this update/recap: there had to be some furniture. Yes, I slightly regret giving away two of my Ercol chairs (the pair found on the street) when we…
A holiday wardrobe: two stay-aways imminent and timings which involve pre-packing clothes for the second trip, so of course I needed a striped T-shirt for each day. Probably going to…
Came back from a long-delayed visit to my parents with a few items – not as many as my mother wanted to offload onto me, but still more than I wanted…
Also on a regular theme, scarves: while I’ve not bought very little over the last year or so, for obvious reasons, not least because there have been few occasions worth…
Was it possible to get through spring and then summer without buying any more stripy T-shirts? Obviously not. Upon the easing of lockdown and the reopening of charity shops came…
This rather splendid shirt – Hawkes & Curtis, found in Crouch End – formed part of my Christmas present to D, hence not recording it here at the time of its…
Am in need of some larger plant pots – not just to house the offshoots and offspring of the plants I’ve been breeding and cultivating, but for potting up those…
