Pageantry Fashion and Even the Odd Horse: Ascot

By • Thursday, 11 July 2013 • Brit Stuff, Day Trips, Fash, Festivals, Food & Drink, My Holidays, Travel

I know I have wittered on before about how much I love a hat, but it just so happened that this year Royal Ascot was on at the same time that I was back in England. If there was ever an excuse to travel with an oversized hat box and two screaming children, this was it.

The main topic of conversation when you mentioned Ascot to anyone this year was the dress code which, for the Royal Enclosure, has been drastically – and rightly – tightened up.  A result of too many people for too many years, rocking up with very little on.

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Finding Shade on a Tropical Beach (Without Looking Like a Pasty Loser)

By • Friday, 5 July 2013 • Beauty, Brit Stuff, Day Trips, My Holidays, Travel

I am pale. I am so pale that people always used to want to stand next to me in school photographs (being pale in England is the opposite of being pale here, it’s considered to be just about the worst thing in the world) as I would accentuate even the most non-existant of tans.

Sadly though, I manage to lose any pale-points I could score by living over here because my paleness is overlayed with – yup, take a deep breath – freckles. Read More

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A Retox vs a Detox Holiday

By • Thursday, 4 July 2013 • Brit Stuff, Food & Drink, Health & Fitness, My Holidays, Travel

I am vaguely aware that there are some people in this world who go on these wonderful sounding things called detox holidays. Whilst I don’t doubt that they must be pretty awful when you’re actually there, you do get to return home wearing clothes that are a size too large and a rather smug healthy glow. In short, the polar opposite to the sort of holiday I have just come back from.

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Giffords Circus

By • Friday, 28 June 2013 • Brit Stuff, Day Trips, Festivals, My Holidays, Travel

While I am over here in England, I’m using my trip as a great excuse to say yes to everything I get asked to do. The more english it happens to be, the better.

One of the things I always used to go and see when I lived in Gloucestershire was Giffords Circus, the really rather fabulous 1930s-style circus that tours south west England. Read More

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Anyone for gently worn Prada / Hermes / Chanel at a fraction of what it usually costs?

By • Monday, 24 June 2013 • Fash, More Dash than Cash

**Robe Raiders have now been bought by The Fifth Collection – www.thefifthcollection.com for more details**

My thoughts are with everyone back in Sing suffering from this intoxicating smog.  Wishing for a change in wind direction and blue skies again soon.  This amazing designer sale that I am about to bang on about below may actually be postponed due to the haze, which has prompted less and less people to stay in town.  I will keep you posted with changes to the date or venue, should there be any.

The day before I left Singapore, I squeezed in about an hour – which was not nearly long enough – to have an exclusive preview, courtesy of my wonderful and hugely accomodating friend JY who organised it, of Robe Raiders’ upcoming second hand designer sale. Read More

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