My Mother and Me: A Clothes Hoarder’s Tale
I’ve been thinking a lot about clothes recently. Who am I kidding? I’m always thinking about clothes – wearing them, storing them, buying them. I have…
5 Things I Didn’t Think I’d Ever Wear Again (but I do)
There are times when the fashion gods smile down on us middle-aged women. They flood the high street with gifts like midi length skirts, flared sleeves, chunky heels.…
Trinny London’s Little Pots of Happiness: Mrs Mutton Gets a Makeover
That Trinny Woodall! What a woman! Back in the nineties and noughties I was very excited by Trinny and Susannah’s “What Not to Wear” TV show – I loved…
Reasons to be cheerful – January edition
Oh January! We’ve been together for two and a half weeks now and it’s really not working for me. I’m sorry, really I am. I’ve thought…
Beauty Products To Try Right Now
This is a time of the year when I find myself all out of sorts with my skin, hair, face, the whole shebang. Obviously candle light, dark…
Shoes that mean you SHALL go to the ball…
My mother always used to dismiss my complaints about going to school dances in my brown school shoes. “No one”, she would say, “EVER notices your shoes at…
A Little Party Never Hurt Any Body
Call me Mystic Meg, but I predict the party season is going to start early this year. With Christmas falling on a Monday, we have such a long run…
Shops I’ve recently discovered…..and some old favourites
I love internet shopping, especially in the evening with a glass of wine, during the unwatchable bits of ‘Dr Foster” (how did she ever get through…
A Few of My Favourite Autumn Things
I have been in two minds about shopping this Autumn. On the one hand I feel in need of some of that corduroy, wool, tweed (now called…
Why all the fuss about Arket?
In case you haven’t heard, everyone who is anyone is all over Arket – the newest offering from high street titans H&M. It has the fashionati going wild.…