Do wet want some new challenges in August?
How about wearing one non-black neutral per week (whatever is a neutral for you)
How about wearing one non-black neutral per week (whatever is a neutral for you)
2025 Resolution: Shopping my own Bag and SLG Collection
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Me Toooooo!!
Congratulations on your stats - a ton out of the house is amazing!
But - boooooooo - to your plumbing woes! I’m so glad your neighbor was able to help - finding plumber quick (which is when you always need them - like right now) is virtually impossible!
I know his business was putting in commercial kitchens like at hotels and restaurants, but I didn't know he was a trained plumber. He is also a friend of DH and knows what is going on atm. He let me pay just materials (including the trade discount at the store). I am going to have to send a nice card and flowers to him and his wife.
Congratulations on seeing daylight, your new bags and you HG moussie, the Fendi looks beautiful, the colour is stunning, and I am sure the 7 years search was worth it.
Well done on your reading. I am merely 'observing' in my Book Club these days. They'll probably ban me soon.
White and cream bags
I still have last year’s LV Graceful and Lederer ‘Kelly’
And added this cute bucket bag from Tory Burch
I still have last year’s LV Graceful and Lederer ‘Kelly’
And added this cute bucket bag from Tory Burch
I am trying to read more, instead of just watching TV or poking around on my iPad - but I have to confess that much of my ‘reading’ is done with Audible in the car.
Don’t feel bad about your Book Club - they’ll be there when you’re ready to read again. I quit mine several years ago because I didn’t like half of the books they were reading
… it’s kinda liberating!
I read for an hour every night right before bed. I turn off the TV early. DH goes to bed before me so I have a nice quiet time to immerse myself in a book.I am trying to read more, instead of just watching TV or poking around on my iPad - but I have to confess that much of my ‘reading’ is done with Audible in the car.
Don’t feel bad about your Book Club - they’ll be there when you’re ready to read again. I quit mine several years ago because I didn’t like half of the books they were reading
I have the same two white bags I had last year. I don't feel the need to add any more. I rarely carry the clutch but I appreciate that it is roomy for a clutch and I really like it. It feels sophisticated. I love the blue contrast on the white satchel.
I typically go to bed before Mr Cookie, and if I am still feeling up to reading that late -
I read a little bit of poetry. Nothing soothes my mind like poetry - and the good thing about it is that you can read one poem several times and get something different from it each time. I’m currently making my way through Bright Wings - an Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds, edited by Billy Collins who was the US Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003.
I somehow managed to delete your post - but I also love that white purse with the darling blue trim!
The Tory is very cute! You know how I love bucket bags! I think your spectator Lederer is beautiful!
I'm so sorry about your plumbing disaster! It sounds horrible! We are very familiar with our plumber. It seems that every time we go on vacation, we come home to some plumbing problem!
It always surprises me that in the UK the washer is in the kitchen. Do you have a dryer? I hope fixing the flooring is easy.
We’ll be here to support you!
OMG! I’m so sorry that happened but am glad you have a lovely neighbor. Sending you hugs as you sort your kitchen floor.Marc end of month stats
Bags In: 0
Bags Out: 2 (but more are poised to go)
Accessories in: 0 (I think)
Accessories out: 2 no-name scarves
Jewellery in: 0 - but I found '70s Uno Aerre vintage graduated belcher chain (when they made proper jewellery) and a Gucci bangle set from 2000.
Jewellery out: 4 costume 'bits' + 2 vintage jewellery music boxes (One oak, another embroidered velvet)
Household in: Lots; Velvet bedspread, plumbing stuff (see below) 2 vases (1 vase for friend so it's going out Easter) 1 coir mat for my cat and a useless watering can.
Household out TON! A few books, duvet and old bed linen. I will have to get a new duvet though.
Major kitchen sink drama all week. My washing machine backed-up water-waste pipes and so I had a flood.
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Thankfully pipes sorted yesterday with the help of my wonderful neighbour. I still have to address my kitchen flooring which has stained with dirty water
I am delighted to have such a fabulous friend as you!Funny you should ask:
I was artistic It paid better than working for a living too
I am a scholar, the pay is not great, but you can't have everything.
I am more 'posthumanist' than humanist (which what I'm writing about now).
The article I had published was on the cult tailor Mark Powell and his work/times in London Soho. It's his 40 year anniversary this year.
The article I'm working on currently is about the origins of the posthuman in art and the relationship between the creator (artist) and the created (art). I'm using a German, Weimar-era, Bauhaus artist to make my point. The deadline is in August, but I have another on a similar subject to do as well but on a British music artist.
That Fendi looks like a great daily bag!
This is why I can never stay long in a book club. Far too often they want to read books I would psychologically or intellectually choke on.Don’t feel bad about your Book Club - they’ll be there when you’re ready to read again. I quit mine several years ago because I didn’t like half of the books they were reading
I read in the evenings as well (Mr. Sparkle isn’t a big reader) but far too often end up reading for longer than my allotted time. I read til 6:37am one day last week! I was as dead as a corpse the whole next day but I love getting lost in a book!
You are amazing and so talented! I thoroughly enjoyed your take on a fascinating place and artist!Yes, it's free!
Mark Powell: Forty Years of Authentic Street Style — The Protagonist Magazine
2025 marks forty years of bespoke tailor Mark Powell setting up in the heart of London’s Soho. If you see Ram Shergill’s portrait of Mark Powell fly-posted all over Soho in suitably renegade fashion, it is because their collaboration, one of the United Kingdom’s most unique tailors and visionary phowww.theprotagonistmagazine.com
Congratulations ❤️❤️❤️❤️-it’s a fantasticabulous article!Yes, it's free!
Mark Powell: Forty Years of Authentic Street Style — The Protagonist Magazine
2025 marks forty years of bespoke tailor Mark Powell setting up in the heart of London’s Soho. If you see Ram Shergill’s portrait of Mark Powell fly-posted all over Soho in suitably renegade fashion, it is because their collaboration, one of the United Kingdom’s most unique tailors and visionary pho
You should be SO proud of yourself!
Thank you
I don't have a dryer! I dry on a clothes horse outside, my bedding and cottons dry in the lavender garden. My house is from the Edwardian era but my parents didn't have a dryer either (a younger house) it's not so usual in Europe. In Scotland it's better to have a dryer that's for sure.
I have a freezer (DH grew lots of fruit and veg) but no fridge (the cat has his own fridge
). I have vegetable and fruit shelves and I have a larder for cheese etc. I use leftovers in cooking, I have a composter, I have almost 0 food waste.
