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
**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
“It’s glacial…get my fur, will you?” may have been a line delivered by Maggie Smith in Gosford Park (recently re-watched, can you tell?) but it also sums up how I’m feeling, having landed in the UK just under a week ago to, among other things, enjoy British ‘summertime’.
We are staying in Gloucestershire in a house we’ve rented for a few weeks in the middle of a honey-coloured village called Blockley. When the sun shines, it’s beautiful: Read More
**Thank you so much to everyone who has voted for me in the upcoming Singapore Blog Awards and to all my lovely readers for getting me this far (if you haven’t voted yet and would like to, you still can! Click here; I’m in the Nanyang Optical Best Lifestyle Blog section). As a finalist, I have been asked to submit one blog post on the 1960s. This is it.**
If there was a decade I could go back to, it would be a close-run thing between the 1920s and the 1960s. Is a mini dress and a sharp bob worth more than a flapper dress and a headband? Having sat through the Great Gatsby (oh and cut my hair into an extremely short bob) I think I can say in all honesty that they are. Read More
I have never really bothered much with shoes. I mean, I’ve obviously always strapped things on to the bottom of my feet to help me walk around, but they were never what I considered to be investment pieces or things I ever got particularly exited about.
Well…all change. Julia, who I wrote about in Part I a few days ago, was mildly appalled when she caught sight of my rather motley collection of shoes, some of which I had had for years. Most of this line up…
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