Tomato Cave

Hello there! I hope you are having a lovely day!  Isn't it funny how the weather just suddenly turns.  Yesterday, it was all sunny and serene and I and CBC wandered amongst 800 year old ruins and BAM, today, all pandemonium doth break lose with deluges of rain at every moment!
I've had SUCH a lovely time this weekend with a Saturday jam-packed outing day with CBC- picking up car from mechanics, walking in Hadleigh country-park, eating lunch in the Salvation Army centre, charity-shopping and cake and tea in Leigh-on-Sea, wandering the Westcliffs sea-front, tofu in a Thai restaurant and then Three men in a boat at the Palace theatre Southend! 

Today's Inspiration Monday with the Two birds is someone called Oliva Munn wearing a rather fancy green satin jacket and horror of horrors, yellow skinny trousers! They look good on her but eeeps, no thanks! I take comfort from the fact that her trousers look almost as unironed as mine!  I decided to go with statement RED instead of statement yellow. My grey jumper is one I love because of its Edwardian lady's neckline- makes me think of the Mum in The Railway Children with Jenny Agutter! CBC calls this my Modern Foreign Languages jacket- I wore this on our first proper date to Cambridge and he said I looked like a language teacher!  What do you think Melanie? Is that so?

 My jacket doesn't have silver hearts on the lapels so I persuaded two common garden birds to sit on either lapel. (Cath Kidston birds)

 Two little dicky-birds sitting on lapels

 One named Peter, one named Pel.

 I also took part in Vivienne at Thrifted Shift's Style imitating art challenge.  The painting of choice was the cave paintings at the Caves of Lascaux in France.  I took inspiration from the browns and earthy colours in this outfit featuring the skirt I wore last Inspiration Monday.  The top has a hood  which made me think of caves and the necklaces, both in shades of brown and golds.  I always think of dried bananas when I wear one of the necklaces as it was my Nan's before she died and it looks like that! The other was a gift from a friend at church. The belt, my Mum's old one I think, is a nod to the terracotta-y patch at the top right of the painting. It's the most interesting link-up challenge I have taken part in!