Simple sailor

My love of nautical attire is well documented on this here blog (just check out the Sailor, Nautical, Naval tags for evidence)

I bought this Topshop jumper on my first visit to one of the 3 charity shops in the town I moved to over a year ago. It was a really happy purchase.  In fact, now I think about it. I've not bought MANY items from there but all of them have been really wanted ones, e.g. Emily and Fin button dress, Cath Kidston Stop Thief bag, Clara Oswald Topshop Diamond blouse, Clara Oswald Contrast checked mac and some great books!

This was my Sunday attire.  I missed the rail replacement bus (instead of train) to church and the trouble is, by the time the next one would have come, I would have been realllllly late for church as the next one wasn't for half an hour, it would take half an hour and then church is over a mile's walk from the station (Plus I already had 0.7mile walk from home). It's not ideal so I ended up going to a church in my local town that starts at 11am rather than 10. It's an old stone church, totally contrasting my 1960's built church, pretty church yard, traditional sung Eucharist with all hymns. It was a nice service and I enjoyed being somewhere different for a change.

These shoes are made by Toms who have a philanthropic approach to shoe-selling as they give one pair of shoes for everyone you buy to a street child somewhere. I bought them for CBC last Summer after finding them in TK Maxx for only £16 but after wearing them for a few months he decided he didn't like them so I wear them at the weekends sometimes.

Speaking of TK Maxx, I was rather pleased as we went to TK Maxx on Saturday to see if CBC could obtain some Red Nose goodies for school. He ended up spending a while mooching round buying himself a shirt. I went over to the men's shoe section and spied these Handmade Loakes brogues. They retail at £150 and I got them for £50 for CBC's birthday present. He had a pair as his wedding shoes but he's mashed them rather over the last few years for school so I bought him this new pair for best.

Also managed to get these amazing Pulsin Raw choc brownies for my Gluten, dairy free friend for her birthday.  I bought a box of them as a birthday present for my other Gluten free, dairy free friend for her birthday as I found them for £4 in Aldi once (a one off). She absolutely ADORED them and said she preferred them to her usual Nakd bars and went online and ordered a box of 20 of them.  They retail £4.50 for three of them online so I was chuffed to find a box of 3 for £2.49 in TK Maxx so got Anne 3 boxes. I told L, the aforementioned colleague and she promptly went off to the local TK Maxx and bought up their entire supply!  If you happen to have special dietary requirements (Sandra, Susie amongst others), it might be worth a look. They are dairy, wheat, gluten, soya, non-GM and vegan.

We also got a bottle of Organic Surge hand and body wash for £2 (usually at least £4.50) which is hard to find anywhere now. I do so like TK Maxx.

It was nice to buy things for others, particularly as one of my Lent fasts is from clothes, accessory, non-essential purchases for me.

I did leave out books though and I did manage to buy 2 more of the Kate Shackleton mysteries from the aforementioned charity-shop on my way back from church. I'd seen them a week ago but didn't buy them.

Finally, CBC showed me this adorable video. I WANT A SKUNK!!!!!

Are you an ardent TK Maxx visitor?

xx