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Bank Holiday Shenanigans
Hello! It feels like an age since I last checked in. Hope all's well in your world. Here's how I've been filling my time.Saturday was another glorious day and after a Mushroom Benedict breakfast,...
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Life in a Midlands Town
I left you on Tuesday evening to meet up with the gang in The Black Country Arms.Followed by Indo-Nepali food in Gurkha Bhojan.I'm glad I didn't pack away all my velvet dresses when I created my Spring...
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Down To The Wire
Monday already? Where does the time go?Saturday morning dawned and, for once, it wasn't raining! I wore the previous day's chazza shop find, the Frida Kahlo tee shirt, underneath my Lucky Brand...
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High Days and Holidays
I left the house at 7.40am on Tuesday morning wrapped in all the layers but, by the time we'd got home, it had warmed up and I was able to cast off a few layers and change into my Lottas (with bare...
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Black Country Tales - Heart of Glass
After a gloomy week it was glorious when I met up with Claire on Thursday. Well, they do say that the sun always shines on the righteous!I caught the bus to Dudley and jumped into Claire's red Beetle...
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Out and About - Gifford's Circus & Tea For Two
On Sunday, less than forty-eight hours since we'd waved each other off at Dudley bus station, I met up with Claire at a rather more picturesque location, the sleepy Cotswold village of Frampton on...
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Cat People
Never again, no more cats, no more heartbreak.....how many times have we said this only for another to come along and capture our hearts? Neither of us has ever actively sought out a cat but, without...
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Cats, Clothes & Charity Shopping
Hello! It seems like an age since I last posted, these grey, cold and damp Bank Holiday weekends drag on for eternity.The capsule wardrobe continues although, after what's been the worst UK April in...
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New Kid on the Block
On Wednesday the sun was shining so I decided to give my fabulous Indian block printed Kharibu skirt its first outing. I thought I'd send a picture of me wearing it to Yaz, the label's founder, and was...
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Birmingham Fun - Indian Food, IPA and Indie Shopping
Apologies for the radio silence, I didn't mean to leave almost a week between blog posts.Yesterday I met up with Nikki at New Street Station for another adventure in Birmingham.We caught up over pots...
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Travelling Light(ish)
It feels like ages since we last left these shores and, with Glastonbury looming large on the horizon, a few weeks ago we decided a lazy week in Greece would be just the thing before we threw ourselves...
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Yasou Halkidiki!
Kalimera, one and all! When I signed off just over a week ago, we were about to jet off to the Halkidiki peninsula on the Greek mainland on what was to be our first package holiday in years. After...
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Halkidiki - Busy Doing Nothing
Kalispera! As I mentioned in my previous post, several of the reviews I'd read during my pre-trip research was that there was absolutely nothing to see or do. There is a folk museum in Polychrono but...
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Halkidiki - Food, Fashion & Friendships
Kalispera! I hope you're enjoying the same gloriously sunny weather as us. I spent all weekend in a bikini and my Greek tan has been topped up very nicely. As Jon's glued to a Bank Holiday war film I...
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And We Got To Get Ourselves Back To The Garden
Has it really been a week since I last posted! Doesn't time fly when you're having fun? In addition to days (and nights) out with friends, shopping, swimming, Wetherspoon's all-dayers, basking in the...
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Catching-Up
Forgive me dear readers for I have sinned, it's been seven days since my last post but, in my defence, I have managed to price and iron over a thousand items in our travelling vintage shop and made...
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Attingham Park with the Princess & the Peach
On Thursday, following a four year Covid-induced hiatus, we finally met up with Belgium's finest, the lovely Ann (aka Polyester Princess) & husband Jos. Our long-time friends, Claire (Winter Peach)...
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Viva Glastonbury!
Hello, Glastonbury! We're back from the greatest festival on the planet although it still feels like we've left our heads somewhere in a field in Somerset.On Sunday 18th June we travelled down to the...
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Another Greek Epic - Paleokastrítsa, Corfu
Paleokastrítsa on the island of Corfu, is there a more beautiful place on earth?One of the first to fall for its charms was Sir Frederick Adam, the British High Commissioner to the Ionian islands in...
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Another Greek Epic - Hiking to the Mountain Village of Lakones
Perched on a clifftop 180 m above sea level lies the beautiful mountain village of Lakones, an 18th Century settlement, a four kilometre walk from Paleokastritsa.To get there we followed part of the...
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