BEDM 16 Date night

I'm hoping to be experiencing some facets of my favourite parts of a date night tonight at my sister-in-law's wedding! Many congratulations to lovely her and her new husband!

Perfect date night is the precis for the day!

Mine will be as such:

• It should of course, include my husband CBC!
• We will go out to dinner first.  It will be inexpensive and will either be Thai or nice light/quality Wagamama/Chinese/Vietnamese cuisine. Tofu will definitely be on the menu. There will be lots of it.
• Should include dancing. Of the swing-dance variety. Lindy, Charleston, East Coast Swing
• It should be in a large, well ventilated room.
• There will be a live band.
• I should be dressed in my finest sleeveless 50's inspired dress. Anything from Cath Kidston or Lindybop will do. It must be cotton and not be prone to wardrobe mishaps. It must also have a really cute print or really elegant and striking in one colour.
• Shoes will not make my feet sweat.
• CBC will be up for dancing and won't get self-conscious about the fact he is out of practice and can't remember more moves. He will either remember more moves or will not mind repeating the same ones.
• We will also both get to dance with other people too so we can excitedly talk about what moves we tried out later.
• There will be lots of snacks to eat like Jiveswing do best.
• It won't be too far from home, we can get back quickly.
• We won't get back hideously late.
• Previously in the day, we will have been for a glorious natural walk and we will be calm, rested and eager to dance.

That's my ideal date.

What about yours?

Love Kezzie

xxx

BEDM 12 - It's a question of WHO?

I'm back... and it's about Time!
I've switched my BEDM topics so Thursday's one is today  (Fashion, style or Beauty- tenuous) and vica-versa as TARDIS Tuesday must stay!

I was super excited to reach this week's TARDIS Tuesday as I received a wonderful present through the post.

Dear Ang, at Tracing Rainbows saw my allusion in a previous TARDIS Tuesday post to wanting question marks embroidered on my lapels like Peter Davidson's 5th Doctor (Who) and offered to embroider them for me on her super whizzy embroidery machine!  I excitedly posted my white concert shirt I have had since I was 14 off to her and she embroidered it with red question marks AND added red to the collar.

You can see it from various angles! I am SO delighted with it- SO many TARDIS Tuesday possibilities.
When I started putting this outfit together, I wanted something coherent and not TOO costumey as I was going to wear it to school BUT I wanted something bold.

Image borrowed from Tansyrr.com Yay, a blogger I follow!

Thus, I took 6th Doctor, Colin Baker, who also had question marks on his lapels, as my inspiration.  I know I don't look like him, but the longer coat with red emphasis, plus the lapels; stripy, albeit blue stripy trousers and a loud-patterned waistcoat (tank) .

There are many references I DON'T have in here, like the cat brooch, rainbow styling (darn it, should have included my rainbow umbrella!), bright coloured spats on shoes, cat brooch, polka dot neck-tie, louder stripy trousers,  checkered and patterned clashes, pocket chains but that's the beauty of this TARDIS Tuesday milarkey- I have years to perfect, refine, alter, change or embellish an outfit once I've exhausted original ideas!

Only one staff member guessed what the lapels were about but the children loved the tank and the question marks.  And that, my dear friends, for me, is enough success!

Outfit details:
Shirt- Racing Green, 20 years ago, lapels embroidered by Ang Almond.
Trousers-Primark ancient
Spotty Tanktop -  H&M via Char's Blog clothes sale
Red trench- Primark via Charity shop.
Shoes- Clarks

• With HUGE thanks to Ang for her wonderful embroidery (hmmm, wonder if that machine does fairisle-style question marks too..... ;-)   ) 
• A nod to my illustrious leader, Maricel over at TARDIS Tuesday headquarters
• A nod to Creative Mondays guru- Claire Justine
• A look at all of you!  If you have something British blue or perhaps Doctor Who inspired, head over to Maricel and link up.  Sometimes there is a little crowd of us WHO are inspired and sometimes, it's me and some random linkers who don't allude to DW or TT in their posts at all!  But still, it's nice to link up there together!  And if you wear black opaque tights, a short dress from Topshop, chances are you might look like Clara Oswald from DW, wear blue and you can be TARDIS blue. Or be random fangirl tenuous Cosplay like me! But I'd love to see you over there!

xxx






Thursday's  BEDM post is supposed to be linked to Beauty Fashion or Style- so that'll be neither!!

BEDM 11: Walk to work week

Hello there,

Today's post is a topic dear to my heart. I have walked to work (or at least part of my journey) for a good 8 years. Before that, my journey included trains and walking.

Up until I was married, I had a blissful 17 minute walk to work from home. I loved my journey even though it went along main roads.  I'd listen out for the blackbirds (I am a keen imitator of blackbird tunes- they are so prolific in their melodies and riffs), I'd admire the trees, especially when clad in delicate pink, Spring mantles of blossom, I'd think about the day, sing songs in my head (who needs a music-playing device when you have a song in your heart), pray, look up and anthropomorphize clouds, smile at people I passed by and before I knew it, I'd be there. It was probably about 3/4 of a mile, so I was very lucky to be so close.

Nowadays, I live around about 18 miles from work and so I must catch two trains to get there.  From my house to the station, I have a mile exactly to walk and at the other end, 1/2 a mile. Thus I still have a fair walk- I'll walk 2-3 miles per day (depending on if I am really tired/late/it raineth and my husband picks me up on the way home).

Though my walk TO work is frequently occupied by thoughts of panic, "Oh rats, I am SO going to miss that train!" and long and desperate periods of run/walking with a final dash up the hill to make that train I am aiming for, it is also punctuated by moments of serenity, calm and the much-beloved time to be lost in my own thoughts.

You may have heard me talk about my lack of driving ability but I'm not sure, even though it would be better for days of inclement weather, that I would swap this often quite arduous journey for driving.  Yes, I have two stretches of walking either way and two trains but I've known no different so why would I change that?

I KNOW I am lucky. When I wrote my 'To drive or not to drive?' debate, it prompted many comments from people who have no opportunity to walk to work. For example, Sophie in Sticks IN the sticks has no option but to drive- any of you who live off the beaten track face horrendously awkward bus journeys, infrequent, expensive and unpredictable and certainly couldn't walk to work.

At our school, we log our ways of travelling to school with the children- they must all track their mode of transport each day and it produces graphs. We run half-termly 'Walk or bike to school' events to encourage the big shift to sustainable transport. I do the 'Walk to school' log every Friday with a year 5 class and even in a term, I've seen that class go from virtually all coming by car, starting to walk, scoot or cycle.  Certainly for children and those who ARE able to walk, such initiatives as 'Walk to work' week are a good idea for raising awareness and conscious decisions.

For me, I'd like to highlight some of the delights of my journey walking, even when I'm rushing, I can still think of these:

1. The Blackbird and the Robin who have conversations between the trees near the start of my journey. It is a definite conversation.
2.  The walk by the lake. I see three puggle dogs walked every morning by two women who snuffle and grunt as I go by.  There are various other dogs but I always notice the puggles thanks to my blog friend Nicole (and Gwendolyn)
3.  There's always a comical moor-hen in the lake in the park who I smile at daily.
4.  The satisfaction of having my heart beating fast and knowing I am doing it good every time I reach the station. I'm never cold when I reach it.
5.  The house of 30 cats. There's a house near school which I walk the side-street route deliberately to see.  Every morning, I peer in in a surreptitious manner from the pavement to count the cats in the window. There's all sorts and they sit or stand contentedly in baskets on the bay window. I smile in delight every time.
6.  Seeing the same people every day. Some people I've started to exchange smiles with. We've never talked but we recognise each other.  Nice to have a little friendly contact through familiarity.

What about you?    How does walking play a part in your daily life? Is it possible? What would be your ideal?

Kezzie xx

P.S. Thank you for the kind comments you have left me over the last few days. I always appreciate you truly and I thank you for being a part of my daily blog.   Thanks also to lovely Zoe Splodz and Liz Distract me for the kind follow!