I must just squee about a dress that I bought today to wear to a wedding in May. It really channels Betty from Mad Men's look and also has a bit of 1950s retro about it. It even has a net underskirt. It's absolutely beautiful, and I feel so pretty in it despite being about twice the size of Betty Draper! I will have to find a nice big flower to ( Read more... )

It's the worst day of the week in some ways as after you wake up from the unconsciousness of a desperately needed lie-in the rest of the day is a slippery slope down to the insomnia of a Sunday night and work on a Monday ( Read more... )

Bloody hell, I think I'm feeling better!

First time I have felt anywhere near normal since 23rd December. I <3 antibiotics that actually work ( Read more... )

I appear to have become an Ebay addict. This has been brought on by my hatred for pretty much anything available in the shops this summer. I hate the styles and colours with a passion. High necks, frills and pale, anaemic, washed out colours just do not suit me at all. Is anyone else finding the clothes in the shops really quite horrible and ( Read more... )

Have been mostly offline since Saturday thanks to extreme cleaning and decorating and no intarnetz (dodgy router problems). Anyway, I finaly got round to reading Saturday's Guardian this evening and there was a fabulous article by Kira Cochraine about fashion for fat girls (and women of course!) For once there was no moralizing about the ( Read more... )

I am going to a conference about the new Planning Act in London at the beginning of December and I'm going to take the opportunity to go down half a day early and go smell some perfume. I found this entry on the Basenotes.com site which has a google map showing the location of the best perfume shops in London.

So far, I think I will be visiting ( Read more... )

Debenhams has discontinued the best bra in the world ( Read more... )