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Batten Down The Hatches - It's Lakefest 2019
Last Wednesday morning we headed to Eastnor Castle, just outside the historic town of Ledbury, for Lakefest. The weather forecast was horrendous and several other UK festivals scheduled for weekend had...
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My Week In Vintage
If someone hadn't been pointed out that we're already two thirds of the way through Slow Fashion Season I probably wouldn't have noticed, that's how bothered I am about buying new. Not that I haven't...
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Imagine Another Lovelier World - Towersey Festival 2019
The Frumptarn GuggenbandForgive me, I'm doing that annoying thing of publishing a blog post before I've caught up with commenting but we're only home for a few hours as we're heading off to our next...
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The Season Finale - End Of The Road, 2019
Last Wednesday, after a 12 hour pit stop, we climbed back into the van and headed down south to set up for End Of The Road. Half dead after the six days we'd spent at Towersey we admitted defeat at...
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Chasing The Monsoon
We're into the final month of #Slow Fashion Season and I've been shopping but, never fear, I've been sticking to the rules. My latest wardrobe additions may bear the labels of a well-known British high...
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Hey! Ho! Let's Go - Packing For Greece
The harbour, Corfu Town - June 2017They say that time flies when you're having fun and that's certainly been the case since I last published a blog post. The weather's been glorious and, other than...
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By Order Of The Peaky Blinders
I've never been a fan of period dramas, posh people poncing about on horseback and being beastly to the servants whilst passive females languish indoors, waiting for a man to come along and rescue...
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Greece Is The Word - Corfu, 2019
Kalispera! We'd arrived in the mountain village of Paleokastritsa on the Greek island of Corfu. In Prospero's Cell (1945), Lawrence Durrell described it as being drenched in the slither of olives on...
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Roadtrippin' - Corfu by Car
After our trip to Kerkyra we decided to continue exploring the island and rented a vehicle for a couple of days. Looking uncannily like BBC antique expert, Philip Serrell, the hire company boss George...
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Village People - Exploring The Hill Town of Lákones
After all the tourists return home, there's only around fifty people left in Paleokastritsa, most of the Corfiots who work there live in the hill town of Lákones, a 4 km hike from the seafront.With the...
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Style Vs Fashion - No Contest!
Isn't it great to look different? A fellow charity shopper said to me as we rummaged side-by-side through the rails this morning and it really is. Having individual style makes us memorable. Strangers...
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Winterising My Wardrobe
Living in the UK there's no real need for a dedicated Autumn/Winter wardrobe, apart from the odd blip here and there, we never really experience the extremes of temperature my blogging friends in other...
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Stone Love - Do or D.I.Y
Couples who lay together, stay together - isn't that what they say? Never mind date nights, mini breaks and surprise gifts, twenty seven years of unmarried bliss is down to us tackling all manner of...
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Wearing, Watching, Reading, Buying...
After two days of laying gravel plus a weekend doing the kind of mundane jobs we spend most of the year avoiding; chopping logs for the wood burner, defrosting the freezer and cleaning windows to name...
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Talkin' Bout A Revolution
In a fashion system that operates on disposability, where we’re told that beautiful garments have trend-based expiration dates, keeping our clothes is a revolutionary act. The global movement, Fashion...
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Super Styling - My Latest Finds in Outfit Form
You've always dressed like that haven't you, Vix? One of my favourite charity shop ladies said to me this morning. She told me that it was because I was the only person she knew who could walk up to a...
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This Week In Secondhand Finds
Bloody rain! Excuse the dodgy indoor photography, I wanted to show you this Droopy & Browns dress that I acquired this week before it went on the Kinky rails and the weather wasn't playing nicely...
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Autumnal Vibes - My Week In Vintage
Oh, season of mists and manic leaf sweeping. With twenty-seven trees in our garden raking has become a full-time job of late but it keeps us fit and warm so I can't complain. Relentless it may be,...
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Let's Be Frank - Cat Sitting & Other Stories
Thank you so much for all your kind words and messages about Frank, the last ten days have been pretty hellish. We're still awaiting the results from Thursday's biopsy which really took it out of him,...
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Life Lately - Cats, Curtains and the Pony Awards
I'm back! After a somewhat fraught week we finally got the results from Frank's biopsy. It turned out to be a severe allergic reaction to something - possibly a plant - as there's no chance it would be...
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