Today's TARDIS Tuesday is an outfit I wore strangely recently (in comparison to others which have had a long hiatus)
Image borrowed from:
https://claraoswaldcosplay.dreamconnect.de/?p=639
The random ramblings of an eclectic eccentric who wends waywardly through a myriad of activities!
Today's TARDIS Tuesday is an outfit I wore strangely recently (in comparison to others which have had a long hiatus)
Image borrowed from:
https://claraoswaldcosplay.dreamconnect.de/?p=639
Hi there,
Ang reminded me it was Zerowaste week last week and I fully intended to put together a post but I confess that the return to school absolutely knackered me out and I couldn't think of doing any blogging in the evenings at all...I will be doing this so if you come back, I'll do something. I've also got a few other things I wanted to share but again, I have got home late or been doing other things and just can't seem to be creative!
Anyway, I found I quite like having a random waffle followed by an outfit I liked seems to be the way things have gone around here in recent times. I DO like sharing outfits that made me feel pretty or happy- that may seem pretty frivolous, but it's something that makes me happy!
Let's start with the outfit:
Hi there,
Hope you are well. I've got a stonker of a headache tonight and I had 3 good lessons with children today and one not so good one (it's that cocky, end-of-year-6 "We're so funny and cool and won't listen," combined with obnoxious difficult class anyway).
An annoying Scrabble moment earlier- I had a word which if I placed it, would have got me 86 points from only placing 5 letters- my opponent placed something there for a measly 38 points. Grr! I've also been playing against Beethoven! He's an AI player but he's very, very good! It's funny because I am doing some work on Beethoven with Year 6.
Anyway, onto today's outfit.
This is worn by Clara Oswald in an episode in Series 8 entitled Kill the Moon. It's a kind of ridiculous episode in which the premise is that the moon is in fact an EGG which hatches into a creature, which lays another egg!
For a lot of the episode, she wears a red/orange spacesuit but when she's not out on the Moon surface, she wears this black and orange floral smock shirt dress along with a tan belt, black tights and a pair of wing-tipped brogue shoes from Dune.
Here it is:
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| Image borrowed from: https://claraoswaldcosplay.dreamconnect.de/?p=639 |
I think I'll get my hair cut in Half term when I visit Northumberland. Even though I'm finding it a pain being long, I will miss the length!
Tomorrow morning, I have my first new Junior Recorder club starting. It's going to be weird not starting in September but also doing it in the Dining Hall. Not quite sure how the music stand situation is going to work out yet! Ah well, we'll give it a go!
Hope you are well.
xx
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| Image borrowed from the Ultimate Guide to the Fashion of Doctor Who but belongs to Wales News Service |
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| Image borrowed from the Ultimate Guide to the Fashion of Doctor Who |







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| Pretty POlly House of Holland spot tights |
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| Gypsy big spot tights |
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| All over cat tights |
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| Elephant over the knee tights |
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| Squirrel top tights |
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| Swallow print tights |
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| Paris skyline tights |
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| Bricking it tights |
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| All over eyes tights |
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| Wolford Zehra fishnets |
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| Jewelled tights |
Jumper: River Island but given by a friend
Polka dot blouse (underneath): Farah, Nottinghill charity shop.
Trousers: ASOS
Belt: from vintage dress.
Shoes: Red or Dead.
Beads: Tescos
Hat: made by Mum.
As you might be aware, today was 'National Christmas Jumper Day' (or something of that ilk) and so we were encouraged to sport our best minging jumpers for this. Now, for years, Christmas jumper has meant to me, any sort of knitted jumper, perhaps with heinous design or fair-isle, animal jumper, any knitted pullover affair OR any jumper you were bought for Christmas. CBC and I, a couple of years ago, were going to go and search for a 'Christmas jumper' for each other in the local charity shops as a challenge!Of course, you'd have to be blind to miss the genuinely 'Christmassy jumpers' available in every store- in fact, the market is saturated with them (not complaining fyi, just pointing out). I decided not to buy a specifically Christmas jumper because I have lots of novelty jumpers anyway and because I want things I want to wear at different times of the year and genuinely didn't see any I wanted overly. What's your opinion on the definition of Christmas jumper?
Today, I turned up to school in this ensemble and as I entered my meeting, my lovely deputy head (who delights in mocking me, affectionately of course) said "What sort of Christmas jumper is that? Cats?!"
The deputy then gave her notices and at the end said, after speaking about, how I was trying to fob them all off with fake reasons for wearing a cat jumper, which isn't a Christmas jumper!
Humph!!! It SOOOOO counts!!!
CBC's school also wore Christmas jumpers and he was remarkably fussy over it until we found this one on ASOS (with 20% discount code) which he was pleased about because it had mallards, deer, foxes, pheasants and a skyline on!
I am a little embarassed to tell the tale of getting this jumper but what the heck, I will share anyway.
We paid for next day delivery in order to ensure it was here for Friday (ordered on Saturday night) and I added my new address to my ASOS account and clicked that for delivery address but the billing address is still my old house.
DPD, the parcel company sent a text saying it would be delivered Monday and gave options of delivering to a neighbour etc (had to be signed for) so I asked my new neighbours who were in, and texted back. Monday night, I came home to a text saying it had been delivered to Number 7 and someone called Ali which I thought strange, as we live at a higher number. I tried number 7 in our close AND on the main street but to no avail. At which point, CbC had the brainwave it might have gone to my old house as I lived at number 6. He was right when I checked on the DPD website (still annoyed at ASOS how that happened). Anyway, so I went on Tuesday to go and look for it at my old house. I walked along the street to look for number 7. After number 5, it was a converted house into 7A, B and C. "Great!" I thought. "Which one?". I rang the bell and banged but no answer. Lights were on upstairs but there was no bell for 7C. No answer from 7A and finally a window opened from what was 7B and a woman spoke in broken English. I asked about Ali but she said 'No'. I hoped she'd understood. I texted a friend to ask her to try the house during the day as perhaps they worked nights. She had no luck. Thursday night, I went over for choir practice and went and tried again. No answer from any of the houses, all in darkness and the one upstairs not answering at all. Somehow, all of a sudden, I was FURIOUS!!! I couldn't understand why they hadn't got in touch with me or where my parcel was or how I was going to get it! (Also contained the black trousers above). My Mum had to put up with a really irritated me, stressing over what CBC was going to do. I went to Tescos to see if I could find one. No luck. Finally, I don't know WHAT it was that made me check but I walked down the street slowly, scrutinizing each house and walked past 7ABC and found a number 7, a little bijou AFTER the big house of flats!!!! Surely 7 would come BEFORE 7ABC. Happily, the family of Ali was in and I got my parcel but I felt SUCH a twit. What point was there in my irritation and annoyance? I just got myself wound up! The moral of this story- don't get stressed about what you can't change OR 'Get a life, it's only a jumper!!!!!!!!'
So three things:
a) Define 'Christmas jumper' for me.
b) Do you have one?
c) Did you wear one at all today?
d) Do you have an embarassing tale of Mistaken Identity or Mistaken address?
e) How are you today my lovelies?










I was recently the lucky winner of two giveaways! One courtesy of the lovely Char and one from Intrinisically Florrie! I received both items within days of each other and thought I'd like to combine them in a post and say a huge thank you to both of them!

