TARDIS TUESDAY My favourite Romana

Had a LOVELY weekend!!! We went to Rochester on Saturday and Sunday, went over to Mum's.  All lovely. More on that anon.  For TARDIS Tuesday, I am featuring an old favourite. It was last featured in August 2023 on here.

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You can see it in all these different images.

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Worn by Mary Tamm playing Romana in her second story, The Stones of Blood, it's very Kate Bush!

Here's my 2025 iteration, worn on Sunday to go over to Mum's! 

I am wearing a charity-shopped burgundy top and an eBay-purchased red tier skirt.  Both are super comfy to wear and good for a warm Spring day.

They are hard to spot but I wore a thin gold chain necklace and a gold bracelet to match Romana's.  The chain was my Nan's.  The bracelet a present from a child.

I added this gorgeous jacket bought in Rochester on Saturday from the Demelza charity shop. It's from a Marbella based brand and I saw it hanging in the shop window and pounced! It's quilted on the inside and features a thick brocade material and embroidered flowers and ric-rac.  I ended up wearing it all day in Rochester as it was cold in the shade and I'd left my jacket in the car. Super pleased with the jacket as I've been wanting something like this for a while! Vix, it's your fault!

 Here's Mummy and I together. We went over to hers to see her as she wanted to give CBC his birthday presents and she's cracked a bone in her wrist.  She made a delicious crustless asparagus quiche using her home grown asparagus!  She served it with her own homegrown rocket and beetroot as well as tomatoes and Sauerkraut. Such a fresh-delicious lunch.  We took over a less-healthy chocolate cake from Waitrose.  We were both sad to leave hers!

If only weekends were longer!

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A big summary of lots of outfits!

 As is often the case, sometimes, I take some pictures of outfits but they never make it onto here. Various reasons- 1. I am not in a blogging mood, 2. don't want to have too many outfit posts, 3. Don't transfer photos across from phone successfully. 4. I forget about them.

Therefore, I had a quick look through my folders on the computer and thought I'd bung together all the outfits I forgot to post into one post.  Some will seem sadly inappropriate now given the season but it will have to just suffice.

So, let's give them a look!

This was an outfit from August. I have not remembered to post any outfit in which I wear this t-shirt. It's a sailor t-shirt from Joanie Clothing. I bought it secondhand on eBay, having liked it when they sold it new online.  Of course, I went all out with the sailor cliques and added this stripy skirt from Peacocks (new a few years ago) and added a Compass brooch plus my Tom shoes.

Continuing with the sailor theme (I love a sailor item of clothing!), I am sharing some photos from August when we took my niece to Burnham-on-Crouch on the boat (You get the 'ferry' from Essex Marina which is at Wallasea Island).

I knew we were going on a boat and spotted an opportunity.

I haven't worn this lovely dress from Jaeger for the last two years, since 2020 so it was due a revisit.

The new straw sun visor I'd picked up from Barnardo's a few days prior went perfectly with it.

And, I even managed to coordinate with my niece who was sporting a rather lovely white stripy coord! She borrowed a sun hat from me!

Here was a school outfit from July.

It was charity-shopped Cath Kidston from last Summer and worn with an almost matching wired headband from Primark and a Primark cardigan plus my rose gold Tom shoes which I reaaaaaaaaaaally must glue- the sole is flapping at the toe on one foot!

I have no recollection what this outfit was for. I love my Parrot jumpsuit from Emily and Fin.

I added a charity-shopped straw and raw silk hat and a white linen M&S (Charity shopped) shirt plus Rieker sandals.

Lorelai LQ orange earrings made from reused plastic straws!

A recent charity-shopped item which I have already worn a lot was a black Indian rayon skirt. It features dancing figures in gold, red and green. £2.99 from the Salvation Army.  I added a tomato red top from Topshop (charity shopped in Hexham) with frilled sleeves and my Dr Martens teal Joylyn boots.

Can you spy the gold leafed oak leaf earrings?

A black sparkly Primark cardigan provided a bit of a cover up if needed. This was a Saturday outfit.

This Joanie Clothing dress was purchased for £4 from a market stall when they were still for sale on the Joanie website a few years ago.

We made a visit to Priory Park in Southend for a bandstand concert and I wore this with a green charity shopped cardigan from Dotty P & my Toms Huaraches

You could go into the house in Priory park which is on the grounds of the old abbey.  There is a great interactive part with monks singing Gregorian chant on recordings as you look at some old stones.  And there are robes! CBC wore the adult sized one. I got the child's one!

Oh look, it's the new skirt again and the green cardigan- which I realise was inside out here! Oh, the glamour of being a not-style blogger! This time worn with a black t-shirt and squirrel shoes!

And finally, here is what I wore to go and watch the orchestra that I play with in Essex. There were only 2 flutes so I watched CBC play. As the whole programme was from the Classical era, I decided to go Jane Austen themed- sort of! 1970's does Regency!

Darn, it, uploaded the blurry photo.  Style blogger fail again!

The dress is by Louis Caring of London

I wore it with my Gstar navy corduroy coat and a Green felt Accessorize hat (bought the same day as Bridesmaid dresses!) plus my Nan's locket!

And that's the lot! Any favourites here?

How would you style the Indian skirt? I am currently wearing it with a green tshirt and red cardie and big knitted Poppy!

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TARDIS Tuesday- Missy

 Hello!

For TARDIS Tuesday, I am going to share an outfit inspiration and character that last featured on this blog back on my birthday cosplay party...but it wasn't worn by me!! It was worn by Fil and Sophie!  However, I did have an outfit inspired by Missy back in 2015.

Yes, the queen of mean is my inspiration for this week.

For anyone who doesn't know who I am talking about, The Master was a villain introduced to Doctor Who during Jon Pertwee's tenure of Doctor Who. He was a rival, renegade timelord and was the Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock.  He was played by the wonderful Roger Delgado.  He sadly died in an unexpected car accident whilst Pertwee was still the Doctor and the character was not seen for another few years until he turned up burned in The Deadly Assassin with Tom Baker. In the penultimate Tom Baker story, The Keeper of Traken, the wasted character from the Deadly Assassin took over the body of Tremas (anagram of Master!), a Traken man played by Anthony Ainley and he terrorized the Doctor through Peter Davidson's tenure. He disappeared again until the final 7th Doctor Story, Survival where he had become infected with The Cheetah People's something or other.  He then appeared in the 1996 movie played by Eric Roberts  He disappeared for another decade and turned up in David Tennant's era in the form of Derek Jacobi and then John Simm.  Finally, in Peter Capaldi's era, He became She and Michelle Gomez played the bonkers female version of him called Missy!

I'm using the Series 10 version of Missy whose hair is a bit more wild, less-Mary Poppinsesque and her outfit is darker but with Edwardian influences still strongly featuring.

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In this version of Missy's outfit from Doctor Who series 10 (in which the Doctor is trying to redeem Missy, AKA, the Master, she wears a variation on her Mary Poppins-esque outfit.

A dark brown paisley blouse with rounded white collar and cuffs, a brown neck bow with red flowers and a dark purple full length skirt and black boots.  

I saw an instagram cosplayer share a work in progress version of this Missy and thought to myself, "Hmmm, I could do a closet cosplay version of this without getting anything additional that might work quite well."

And here we go:

I'll start from the very begining, a very good place to start...

Wait, that's the Sound of Music, wrong Julie Andrews film.  Hold on, Mary Poppins isn't right either??? Ah, Michelle Gomez, Doctor Who!

I began with my white round-collared shirt from ASOS (which has featured in various cosplays including Romana and Yaz Khan).

Over the top of that, I layered my cappucino-coloured Boden shirt, bought originally, secondhand for my Clara Oswald 60's echo outfit. I tucked its own collar in.

Next, to emulate Missy's neck-tie, I added a black silk with red flowers scarf from Primark.

Yeah, Missy did a dab when she was pretending to be The Doctor in one episode.  This being the only time I would do one! The final two clothing elements were my 1970's Droopy and Brown skirt which was given to me by a friend and my black Clarks ankle boots.

I am notoriously bad at HAIR styling and struggled a bit with this but I put my hair in a highish ponytail (as high as mine goes...which isn't very) and then used hairgrips to pin it messily to the top of my head!

It was quite fun incorporating the piano into these photos.  Right colour, wrong model, mine being an upright, not a grand piano!

It was quite fun trying to pull slightly manic, slightly evil facial expressions!  I'm quite good at those. My A for GCSE drama came from playing a child-killer suffering from Postnatal depression and mania and Satan (modelled from Eric Roberts' Master from the 1996 Doctor Who the Movie), not from nice characters or essays!! Eeek!!!

So, what do you think? Does my version of Missy cut the mustard?  

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TARDIS Tuesday- Edwardian Yaz in The Vanquishers

 Hello there!

I decided to pull together what is known as a Closet Cosplay for this week's TARDIS Tuesday.  The idea of this is just searching for items in your wardrobe you have already without searching for and buying any specific item in advance for it.

The outfit in question is from last week and this week's episodes of Doctor Who Flux.  Yaz and Dan, along with Professor Eustacius Jericho are trapped in 1901 after the Weeping Angels sent them back there in The Village of the Angels and last week's episode began with Yaz and co, 3 years later, trying to find clues of how to get back to the Doctor.  Yaz and co have gone Edwardian in their costuming and Yaz is seen breaking into an Inca temple wearing this outfit.

She seems to be donning a green tweed skirt suit with a round collared blouse, brown tartan or chequered tie, a straw boater and then brown satchel, gloves and boots.

The image belongs to the above which I borrowed from 
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I had a look in my cupboards and looked to see what I could find:

I started with a green corduroy Per Una jacket I bought from a charity shop about 16 years ago. Alas, I didn't have a matching skirt but I decided to don my Droopy and Brown navy skirt as it was suitably voluminous. I borrowed CBC's light brown Brogue boots as I had just (SOB!) broken the zip on my beautiful brown knee high boots the night before. To match it, I added my brown charity shopped Clara Oswald satchel

I stole another item of CBC's wardrobe- his brown checked tie and added it to my ASOS round-collared blouse (has been used for various Who cosplays over time) Oh and used a vintage-looking lantern that CBC gave me one of our first Christmases together.

Alas, I had no suitable gloves to don but I did have my Grandad's old school boater (also has been used for a cosplay before)

Finally, a little view from the back.   I mentioned yesterday that my Mum came over yesterday so naturally, she was put to work as my official photographer but also tie-tier AND hairdresser to give me a French plait.  Yaz's hair styles have been very ornate this time and though mine is short, I thought I'd take advantage of Mum's hair skills.

What do you think?

I didn't wear the rest of the outfit for the rest of the day, as it's a bit formal for a Sunday, but I did keep the Droopy and Brown skirt on.

It was fun to see what I could cobble together for this outfit!

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It took 20 years but now it's mine!!!!

 Back in the Queen's Jubilee year, I shared my 70's handmade Kaftan when I wore it for our 1970's day at school.  My Mum handmade this herself in the 70's.  She gave this to me back when I was about 18 or 19 I believe.

Worn in this post in 2012.  I allude to the nicer kaftan in this post!

It all came about because she was wearing a beautiful blue hooded kaftan she had bought from Kensington Market when she worked up in London.  I totally loved it and asked if I could borrow it but she said that I would not be able to as it was very precious and she loved it. BUT, she gave me her handmade one instead.   I always loved that kaftan and used to love it when she wore it.

Fast forward about 2 decades and Vix has been sharing some gorgeous kaftans she has bought in recent times.  I wistfully thought about Mum's beautiful blue kaftan and I think I mentioned it in Vix's comments.  She said she'd love to see it.

This Monday, I went over to Mum's where we ate a lovely lunch in her garden and went for a walk whilst CBC was at work.

Whilst there, I asked her if I could possibly try on her kaftan as I wanted to show it to Vix.  She said yes and went to get it. At which point, she said I could have it! I was amazed as I know how much she loved it.  She did say that she probably wouldn't fit into it again and I might as well have it now rather than later on but I must be very careful with it!

So here it is! After 20 years!

Worn in my Mum's garden with her hippy fairy garden in the background- very apt I think!

And here's Mum and I on the beach on our walk.  The tide was in but this one bit of shingle was available to stand on!

Hope you are well.

I am quite sad that this is my last official day of the holidays bar the weekend but it's been a nice week all in all. Today is the only day when I haven't had plans.  I've seen different friends on different days this week which has been great.

Just waiting for CBC to come home from work. He's gone to the pub with his colleagues. Hope he's bac soon!

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