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In The Bedroom
These vintage feather filled quilts can fetch a small fortune on eBay and although undeniably pretty they do crop up regularly when I'm out charity shopping. I found this one for £2.99 in the British...
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Charity Shop Tourism - Chazzing in the Black Country
Fire up the camper! We haven't been charity shopping (aka chazzing) since Tuesday.Today took us to the Black Country town of Halesowen, which, according to the Doomsday Book, was once larger than...
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Flea Bitten
Tights, boots, coat and a hat. It can only mean one thing, its the August Bank Holiday.Its not unusual, this was me a year ago, at the Upton festival, Â in a fake fur coat with thermal leggings hidden...
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The Mid Week Rant: Mind Your Own Business
When Curtise forwarded me a link to this post I thought I'd slipped into a coma and woken up in the 1980s. In this day and age do we really need to be advised to wear "slenderising" dresses and to...
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The Mean Green Drying Machine
This post ain't very rock and roll but I'm so excited about my new toy I just had to share.Over the past month I seem to have spent too much time rushing down the garden in the rain to rescue the...
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Food For Free
You can keep your woolly cardis, damp mornings, dark nights, bastard massive spiders and celebrity dancing shows, for me the best thing about Autumn is free food.Our sprawling garden and the one...
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You Tear Men Down Like Roger Moore
My fantasy of channelling a 1970s action film heroine went up in smoke when the first words Jon uttered when I clomped downstairs in my vintage safari suit were Oooooh, very Roger Moore.But being...
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Made In Walsall
If you've read my blog for a while you'll know that I'm from Walsall, a large industrial town in the Black Country, once the manufacturing heartland of the UK. Even if you've never heard of my home...
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A Duvet Day & The Taming of Ginger Alan
My mum used to tell me that back in the 1960s if a girl fancied a new dress she'd buy some fabric & a dressmaking pattern and run something up on a Saturday afternoon to wear to go out that night....
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Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat......
Where does the time go? One minute its mid-week and next thing you know its Monday. A weekend of back-to-back vintage fairs along with five and a half hours in A&E after my poor Dad got bashed on...
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Charity Shop Gold - The Jean Varon Catsuit
Unlike my fab friend Suzanne, bemused by a blogger moaning about being slim with a large bust, many of our customers don't consider having big boobs a blessing, they have terrible trouble trying to...
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Into The Valley
So that's it, after eight festivals, this weekend marked the final one of 2014. Life on the road is over for another year.Wearing: Dollyrockers maxi (Second to None, 2010), 1970 felt hat (Car boot...
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Destination Unknown
Jon & I live on different time zones. By the time he's awake I've already been up a couple of hours. This morning, having exercised, finished the washing and completed the mending pile I thought...
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Owning Your Style - A Recap
I've made many on-line friends during my five years of blogging. Some have vanished without trace whilst others, no doubt, tire of my tales of trips to India, festivals and an uncompromising vintage...
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The Long Walk Home
As usual a shopping trip to and from town involves cutting through the churchyard. I Â took my camera along this morning.St Matthew's churchyard has been part of our lives for as long as we can...
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We Are Family - In Memory of Grandma
Spot the difference! Standing in same doorway whilst displaying a love for cats, chunky bangles and wild prints.Meet Joan, my grandma, born on this day one hundred years ago.The youngest of three...
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Bathing Beauty - Victoria Baths, Manchester
Forget the stately homes, piles and castles of the landed gentry, I'm far more interested in the magnificent municipal buildings of our great industrial towns and cities, places built for the ordinary...
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In The Leather
Once upon a time I used to do outfit posts, these days its a matter of chucking my camera in my bag and grabbing impromptu photo opportunities between appointments. This one was taken by an undertaker...
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Skinny Love and Prints Charming
I know, I know, I need another vintage maxi dress like I need a hole in the head but since when does necessity come into the equation when you spot a groovy print like this one? Buy what you love when...
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Rumble In The Jumble
When I joined the ranks of the self-employed six years ago, I discovered an underground society to which those in paid employment remain oblivious. The details are often hazy, communicated by Facebook...
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