The Red trousers - the forgettable sequel to The Red shoes

The red trousers tells the tragic tale of a ballet dancer tormented by -
Hold on, hello there, this isn't what I thought it was!! It's not a film advert! Greetings!  It's Inspiration Monday with Les deux oiseaux!  We have a very nice colour combo from this celebrity to model ourselves upon!  I am happy, I have red trousers now!  Still finding myself a little uncomfortable with tight trousers but I like how they look and they are quite practical if it starts raining in this June weather, unlike my usual big trousers which trail in the mud!  They are from Dorothy Perkins and all day, I was driven mad by the combination of low-waisted trousers with vest-top that rolled into a sausage above my waist meaning there was bare-midriff (not seen under shirt!)  Does anyone else pear-shaped have that issue with tops?!

There are two things you should know about me:
I associate objects with memories and I am the type of person who will bore you senseless unexpectedly by reminiscing about some memory I have thought of all of a sudden.  Essentially, it's thinking out loud because it hits me suddenly but it's only after the glazed-expression that I suddenly think, "Hmmm, maybe they didn't need to know that!"  Well, in fact my blog is a little bit like that- streams of waffle!  Still, having an additional outlet for waffle was why I started this blog some 7 years ago!

Anyway, the point in my telling you this fact about myself is that this shirt I wear, below, provoked some memories.  It's from Mango and I bought it in the summer of 2002 when I was just about to go off to Bali to live for a year. It is one of the few items that was taken to Bali and also survived the luggage cull to come back to England!  It was the perfect shirt for Indonesian climates as it was light (cheese-cloth cotton) and it covered me up (in different degrees- you can tie all the seperate ties).  I remember when all the scholarship students arrived at Orientation in Yogyakarta, another student from Portugal, Andrea, who was also going to Bali as opposed to Java, had exactly the same shirt in Beige (Mango also).  I remember we struck up a friendship initially after commenting on each other's shirt!  It was one of the most useful items I own for summer holidays!

Worn with Peacocks ballet pumps and belt, Alice-in-Wonderland necklace (via ASOS) and Newlook heart earrings (gift).  Much as I always prefer the celeb look, today I prefer my own chilled look!

Oh, and the other thing you should know about me.  I really like doing well at school or in any sort of learnign situation!  We had a staff INSET on grammar tonight at school (because of the recently republished draft national curriculum which has a real onus on grammar) and we had a grammar test (purely so we can see the sort of things the new government expects us to know)  and I found I knew a lot of the answers, well most, and probably didn't give the rest of the table much of a chance!  Try this one:  Without cheating and looking at the net, what are the 4 types of sentences?  I, having answered most of the questions thus far in the meeting, named all 4 and was named 'the swot' for knowing all four.   I tend to find in staff meetings, that in most situations, no one says anything and I am keen to get on, so I always tend to answer the questions.  Anyway, I am sure I am quite annoying!  But who cares, I love grammar INSETS! 

Anyway enough waffling- go and check out the birds and their flock of following fabulouso outfits!
I'm also linking up to the lovely Patti's Visible Monday as these trousers made me feel very visible and conspicuous today!

*  Disclaimer: whilst I can teach grammar to children and talk about it, I am fully aware of the many deficiencies in my blogging grammar!  Ahrgh!