Weird People Who Catch My Bus #1 – The Shoe Girl

Friends of mine will already know this story, but it's a good 'un, so I thought I'd share. So, I'm catching my regular bus home from work. It's about 5.30pm, so it's pretty busy, and it's been a nice day so there is a larger than usual assortment of undesirable people on board. Think topless dudes [...]

Baby Blue, Baby Blue, Do you know that I’m still in love with you….?

I've developed a bit of an obsession. It all started with these: Ollie got me these for Christmas from good old Dorothy Perkins and I was instantly enamoured with that soft, powder blue shade. I don't know if it was because we were in the depths of December and I couldn't really wear them yet, [...]

Reasons to be Cheerful – Keeping it all in Perspective

Up until this weekend I was pretty sure I was going to have to skip this week's Happy Monday. That kind of negates the whole point of my Happy Monday posts, because the whole reason I started doing them was to make sure I focused on the positives instead of the negatives, but it's genuinely been [...]

Outfit: Holding Off the Back to Work Blues!

Despite having a wonderful weekend and much needed break I really wasn't feeling ready to face work again on Tuesday. Ollie knows the signs well (he sees them kick in around 5pm every Sunday evening!) so when the blues started threatening on Monday night he decided to distract me in the best way possible - [...]