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Walsall Life - The Street That Time Forgot
A reflective blog post with a difference. You won't find the best of this year's outfits here because if you're a regular visitor you've already seen them. Instead I'm taking you on a trip back into...
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Spy Story (& Some Disgraceful Behaviour)
As we've spent much of the past week gripped to the vintage BBC espionage dramas Tinker Tailor, Soldier, Spy& Smiley's People I was pleased to find a mac of the same era in my favourite charity...
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Prosthetics & Pom Poms
Nine years ago today my life changed forever. I went into hospital and, a week later, came out with a brand new hip. Since then I've carried this card, which means that when my titanium femur triggers...
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Busy Doing Nothing
I haven't been at home in early January for so long that I've forgotten what I'm supposed to be doing. There's lots I could do, get the stock ready for Vintage Village on Sunday, finish packing, sort...
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Stockport Rocks - Life In A Northern Town
What kind of a person dresses in marabou feathers at 5am on a Sunday morning? Me!It was a bit of a cold one trading at Stockport's Vintage Village yesterday but, with my wool maxi dress, lace body...
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What To Wear On A Long Haul Flight (If You're Me)
Heaven forbid I'd ever dream of giving anyone advice about what to wear! This is my choice, vintage all the way. My travel outfit has to cope with a lot - travelling to the airport in torrential rain...
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The Palace In The Jungle - Adventures in Goa & Beyond
Benaulim Beach, January 2015Namaste, one and all! After getting home late last night I'm currently dividing my time between loading the washing machine, lavishing a month's worth of fuss on the felines...
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Life's A Beach - Adventures in Goa & Beyond
Thank you so much for the warm welcome back and your kind comments, it made coming home that bit more bearable!Village catsReady for more? Detail from Hindu templeRoadside shrineAfter acclimatising...
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Holy Cow! Adventures in Goa & Beyond
After a couple of hours on the train we reached Gokarna in the neighbouring state of Karnataka, a sacred coastal town popular with Hindu pilgrims for over two millennia. It is believed that Shiva was...
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On A Shoestring To Coorg - Adventures In Goa & Beyond
As the bus began its ascent through the Western Ghats, the humidity which had lain heavily on our skin like a blanket since we boarded in Mangalore hours earlier vanished and the air felt cool and...
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Viva Goa! Adventures In Goa & Beyond
The lotus lakeAs a collective sigh of relief is heard throughout Blogland, after a fortnight spent exploring Karnataka, we returned to our beloved Goa for the final leg of our trip.Main road, Benaulim....
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I Can See Clearly Now
After a month of living out a backpack and dressing in whatever smelled the freshest, its most perplexing to suddenly be confronted with two wardrobes stuffed with clothes. Do I go for mini, midi,...
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Indian Colour In The Black Country
You wouldn't have spotted this chiffon & lamé number peeping out of my improved wardrobe as it's been on the mending pile for the past 12 months. The last time I wore it I heard a sickening rip...
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All Fine & Dandy
For the second time this week I awoke to snow so what better to counteract the bitter cold than a pink Crimplene catsuit, big hair and some massive sunglasses?It was a bit too icy to negotiate the hill...
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The Wastecoat & Further Adventures In Sewing
Chill out, pedants! I didn't forget to spell check before I posted, this really is a wastecoat, the latest creation in my mission to shut the lid of my bulging fabric stash. Made from scraps too small...
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If The Coat Fits....
So, there we were at Stockport, working our pitch in the usual understated manner when one of our regular customers presented me with a carrier bag, This is for you, he said, it belonged to my late...
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Our House in Your Home
April's Your Home magazine is out and we're in it! It seems almost unbelievable to have our house featured in a best-selling interiors magazine. I'm sure it was only five minutes ago that I was living...
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Outfit of The Day - Tribal Gypsy Meets the '70s
The more observant of readers will have seen this dress feature plenty of times on my blog over the past five years.Being a die-hard vintage chick I wear my clothes again and again and again. I'm not...
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Booty Call - The Return of the Midweek Car Boot Sale
It might be freezing cold but Spring is definitely in the air. The Wednesday car boot sale is back on and Jon & I can get our weekly shopping fix. Yesterday, with a pocketful of loose change and...
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Seventies Girl - Why I'm Sticking To The Real Thing
When Dee blogged about this amazing print she found a couple of years ago several people commented that she looked a bit like me. In my dreams! Wearing: 1970s Dollyrockers maxi (eBay, 2010), vintage...
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