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Ain't Nothing But A Number
It's my birthday in a couple of days, where the f*ck did the time go? Unlike many of the bloggers I follow I don't include my age group in my blog title nor do I use hash tags like #over50 when I post...
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Trust In Me - Georgian Splendour In Sleepy Shropshire
A rock gig and a boozy Wetherspoons all-dayer, what my birthday week was lacking was some culture so this morning, wrapped up in big coats, hats and thermal undies we headed across the border to the...
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Lamani Love - The One Where I Share My Tribal Collection
It's all a bit grim here today, heavy snowstorms and positively Arctic temperatures with weather warnings issued for the weekend, even our schools are closed. Time to start thinking about our escape to...
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Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
The discovery of this Welsh wool cape in a charity shop on Friday couldn't have come at a better time. The temperatures were icy, we'd already had a few inches of snow overnight and weather warnings...
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New Clothes For Old - Travel Packing & Snow Clothes
TUESDAY: 1960s Wetherall of Bond Street wool cape (charity shop, 2004); Vintage fake fur scarf (belonged to my mum); Sheepskin hat (charity shop, 2010); 1970s high heeled wellies (jumble sale)After...
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Dressed To Impress (Yourself)
Catching up with my blog reading after an afternoon spent in the pub, I was blown away by a post Hollie published yesterday which mentioned several of my favourite bloggers / ex-bloggers - as well as...
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Proud Mary - Today's Outfit Plus Some Charity Shop Tat
It's the Dead Relatives Society bash. Jon & I and the rest of us orphans are off to Spoons shortly for a festive all-dayer. I know what you're thinking - they do this most Mondays, it's hardly...
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Ready To Go - Travel Packing & Some 1970s Inspired Finds
The Seventies are dead...long live the '70s! By the frequency tops with which flamboyant sleeved tops & platform soled shoes are turning up in charity shops it appears that the craze for all things...
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The Woman In White
When I spotted this 1970s gown in a charity shop window a few weeks ago my heart skipped a beat. Sod the fact it was a wedding dress, it needed to be mine. I think the manager was rather amused by the...
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India Comes To Coventry - Visiting The V&A's Crafts Of The Punjab Exhibition
  All dressed up and somewhere to go! This week has seemed almost interminable so when we realised that today was probably the last chance we'd get to visit an exhibition we'd set our hearts on seeing,...
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Absolute Beginners - Vix's Adventures In Crochet
 Happy New Year!!WEARING: Inherited crochet maxi coat with 1970s Ricci Michaels of Mayfair psychedelic dress (bought from Vintage Relics at The End of the Road festival, 2016)You may have noticed my...
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In It For The Long Haul - Travel Outfits, Packing & Charity Shop Finds
Compared to what I've worn earlier this week I'm looking rather muted today.Technically though this isn't today's outfit but rather tonight's as it's what I'll be wearing on my epic journey to India....
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Indian Epic - Travels in Kutch, Gujarat - Devpur Homestay
Namaste! We're back! Be afraid - be very afraid, we took so many pictures during our stay in Gujarat you might be sick of the sight of India by the end of the week. Normally after being home for 24...
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Indian Epic - Travels in Kutch, Gujarat - Bhuj's Museums, Palaces, Temples &...
Ready for more? On Monday morning, after a sociable breakfast spent chatting to K and the other guests, driver Ramji picked us up and dropped us off at the medieval walled town of Bhuj.Like the rest of...
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Indian Epic - Travels In Kutch, Gujarat - The Temples, Ruins & Tombs Of The...
Just after 8am & accompanied by fellow Devpur house guest Susan, a German-born architect living in Zurich, we set off to explore western Kutch. On the way we passed through the Tropic of Cancer. I...
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Indian Epic - Travels in Kutch, Gujarat - The Desert, Crafts & The Party...
Wednesday got off to slow start after we got caught up in a traffic jam caused by a herd of water buffalo taking a morning stroll.Eventually Susan, Jon & I arrived at our first destination, the...
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Indian Epic - Travels in Kutch, Gujarat - Around Mandvi
Wednesday was spent with fellow Devpur house guests Carey & Gary, exploring the area around the coastal town of Mandvi. Our first call was the Vijay Vilas Palace, a sandy white-domed building set...
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Indian Epic- Travels in Kutch, Gujarat - Birding in Banni
Just before sunrise on Friday morning we were collected from Devpur by an ecologist & his driver from the Centre for Desert and Ocean (CERO) and taken to the Banni Grasslands, a semi-arid region...
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Indian Epic - Travels in Kutch, Gujarat - Textile Heaven
Kutch is famed for its rich textile heritage so what better way to spend our final day than overdosing on them. Our first call was to the Living & Learning Design Centre (known as LLDC) in the...
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She's Eclectic - What I'm Wearing Today
I thought I'd give you a break from the travel posts today with a good, old-fashioned outfit post. Cold shoulder is very appropriate today as it's bastard freezing. Am I the only one who detests that...
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