Summer brings my favourite outfits

You might have noticed I haven't shared as many outfit pictures in recent times as in the past. There are various reasons for this but one being the fact that I find that my love for Winter and cold-weather outfits is significantly smaller than my love for Summer clothes. I just adore Summer outfits and find I just like sharing what I wear. Even if it's just a dress with little or no other styling, I still enjoy seeing and remembering them! 

So, here are a few I've worn in recent weeks. 

CBC and I went to the beach last Saturday after a wander in a town to get some essential refill items we had completely run out of. 

The skirt was Monsoon, charity shopped, and beautifully light-weight cotton. The top is, also Monsoon and linen. It's a little awkward to style but I feel cool in it! The little cotton waistcoat is embroidered and I bought it recently from Vinted. It's a little big for me but I have seen Vix wearing so many pretty waistcoats like this and wanted to try it! 

This dress is just F&F at Tesco, charity-shopped. It's a light cotton and I wore it on that hot Saturday a few weeks ago and perfect for a hot day where you want to be covered up. I wore it to go for a mooch around the shops when CBC was away and I added this Boden Cashmere cardigan I bought that day for £4 and this cute hat which I needed as I'd forgotten a hat! Plus my gold sequinned Tom pumps. 

The next outfit was worn for church the next day and then school and features my Miss Patina sailor cardigan. I added my cats as mermaids skirt, also Miss Patina plus my Clarks Funny dream shoes. And the hat! 

Another Miss Patina outfit. I tried this beautiful light-weight linen/cotton pinafore with lace trim and the cotton blouse.  I actually ended up swapping it for a darker linen version. Now looking at these pics, I'm kind of regretting swapping it but I wasn't sure about it! 

The final outfit was worn for Cultural Day at school. Last year, I wore a Greek dress (for my Greek grandma) and I did debate wearing the White F&F dress above as it has Grecian look and colours but also almost Scottish flags for some ancestors but in the end, I wore this beautiful Laura Ashley cotton lawn dress. Nothing screams English more than Laura Ashley, especially with roses. When I first wore it on this blog about 14 years ago, it was too big for me but now it fits perfectly. Soooo many compliments from staff, kids (all genders!). 

I wore this hat with it all day. 

I've got to talk about the Cultural Day. 

It was, like last year, an incredible day! 

Everyone was dressed in outfits which they felt reflected a culture they have a connection or background to. 

Last year, the same week, we did three morning performances on 3 days in Mid-July to parents featuring songs from multiple cultures represented in my school. 

This year, as it was May and we had only had 6 weeks to learn songs, we just did internal assemblies. Also, we have been having a focus on representing South Asian cultures. As part of this, I had sent out a request to staff to see if anyone was willing to do a short term club to teach some sort of South Asian dance. To my delight,  3 members of staff volunteered to run clubs for 3 different year groups and different types of dace- one Rajusthani puppet dance for year 1-2, another Dandiya stick dance to year 3-4 and another Bhangra dance to year 5-6.

In each assembly, all three dance groups performed, brilliantly.

In Year 1-2, I had taught them, and they sang 3 songs.  Ghum Parani from Bangladesh, Anile, Anile O diva from Sri Lanka and Ali Baba from Afghanistan.  They did such a sweet job of the songs especially the Afghan song.

In year 3-4, I taught them Khamma Mana Nanderji from India and Alef Ba (alphabet song) from Afghanistan and in addition , recorder club played a piece from Jamaica.

In year 5-6, they sang Alef Ba from Afghanistan and Eso Eso by Rabindrath Tagore from the West Bengal/Bangledesh and drumming club performed some Bhangra Chaal drumming rhythmson snare drums.  The whole day was extremely joyful and I was so proud of all the children.

One lovely member of staff came and gave me a hug when she heard Eso Eso as she said she had sung that in school and loved it and was so glad I had helped her twin girls learn some songs from their cultural background when they had shown little interest when she had tried to interest them in it. This really touched me!

 

TARDIS Tuesday- Hide

Hi there,

Back from the holidays!  We had a lovely half term.

The funeral was really lovely. The crematorium was full to the brim and there were many people who live-streamed it.  We played our music and everyone was very complimentary.  My Godmother and Godsister were really grateful and were brilliant. I saw so many old friends and it was lovely.

We spent 4 days in Belgium.  More on that soon (I hope- I'm not very good with travel posts!) 

We met up with CBC's brother and also with some friends from his previous school (who are also my friends now and bizarelly, one of them comes from where I come from!) 

I've had a roaring headache for the past two days which has been really irritating for school but I've ploughed on.

Now onto TARDIS Tuesday.  This features an old favourite which I wore to church on Sunday.

Did I really last feature this in May 2021?? Surely, I've worn it since!!!

Image borrowed from this Pinterest but ultimately belongs to the BBC

It features my beloved Clara in her quintessentially 90's-looking outfit!

A ditsy floral dress, navy blazer in jersey, a Barbour Duralinen jacket and some black laceup boots from F Troupe

Here's my 2024 version.  It's pretty much the same as the last two times I wore it.   

It features an alternative dress from Soulcal which has a similar print and shape plus a New Look blazer alternative.  I wore tights this time, as opposed to leggings and I regretted it on the cycle to church- this dress was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too short to cycle in- I had to keep pulling it down as I cycled and wore my Barbour jacket (seen below) round my waist on the way home.

Richard at church, who I often joke with as he often drives behind me and beeps, "Road hog!" at me, commented on my dress and I mentioned I was regretting it.  He laughed and said he'd missed that! He's in his 80's and loves making fun of me!

I hope all is well with you!

Much love,

Kezzie xx

TARDIS Tuesday- KILL THE MOON!

 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

It was worn by my old favourite, Clara Oswald, in series 8 of Doctor Who in a controversial episode called Kill the Moon. Controversial because it turns out the Moon is, in fact, an EGG...which hatches into a creature!

She wears a black and Autumnal coloured floral dress from ASOS plus her typical black opaque tights, her block-heeled Bertie shoes and a tan belt.

And here I am:

There's not much to say about this outfit except to say, I am wearing the ASOS dress but with leggings.  Mine was shortened...NOT something I needed to be done but when you buy it 2nd hand, not much you can do!  I also sold my screen accurate shoes so I am wearing an alternative pair of Clarks shoes I've had for a loooong time!

  

Happy Easter!

Wishing you a joyful Easter!!! 

Christ has died

Christ has risen

Christ will come again!

My Easter weekend has been one of joy and rest as well as being busy!

The school term ended on Thursday! I spent most of the day doing what is called Pupil Voice with children from each year group.  It's something one has to do nowadays as a subject leader in school.  Interview a small group of students to find out what they are learning in that subject to check it is being taught comprehensively, fully and to find out what is working for children/teachers and that the subject is going according to plan.

It's a pain to do but it's useful and interesting and also reassuring (and frustrating when they can't remember things and you have to prompt them!.  Not sure what possessed me to ask them 20 questions this time!

In between that, I took my Samba band up to the hall to perform for the Easter Bonnet parades (as it was raining and windy, we had to do separate ones inside!).  The kids were incredible at performing the Samba and everyone was gushing about how good they were! I love that 1/4 of the group have SEND and are all brilliant!

Once I'd cleared up my room and sent some essential emails (annoyingly cannot access my school email at the moment from home!), I headed home.

I dumped my massive collection of things at home and headed to the doctor's surgery to see the nurse to see if I had a water infection (as have had abnominal pain for the past 2 weeks).  Traces of blood but not infection so she managed to get me in for a Saturday afternoon appointment for the Doctor.

I headed home for a quick snack and then cycled in the dark to church.  The wind was CRAZY!!! Rocking up on my bike to church through dark fields was interesting!

Our vicar is not very well at the moment and the lovely lady who regularly plays piano and leads workshop is currently receiving treatment after surgery so I was on for most of the Easter services.

It was a wonderful calm in the church in the midst of the hurricane outside. The service was beautiful and I only made a few bad crashes on the piano.

I came home and made dinner for myself.

Good Friday, after some sleep but not as much as I'd have hoped (SOMEONE's alarm went off at 6.45am and has done for the past 3 days!!!) I got up and cycled to the other church for the 10.30am Good Friday service. The wind was very much against me and I arrived bright-red and sweaty as I climbed the hill to church...annoyingly 5minutes too late to play flute (which I was going to do to support the lovely lady who was playing the piano for the first time since her op.

Again, it was a lovely service. We laid hearts at the foot of the cross and it was beautiful to be there. I was very glad I'd attempted the cycle.

As I waffle about my weekend, here are some photos of what I wore for Easter Sunday!

I cannot quite believe I have never worn this coat on this blog before but I honestly think it is true. I actually don't think I've worn this coat for about 10 years!  I bought it about 20 years ago from Mathew Williamson at Debenhams in the sale for either £30 or £40 and it is covered in beautiful floral embroidery! My mum was SO jealous of me when I bought it, when we still lived together.  She wore it a couple of times too!

For church I wore this floral Laura Ashley dress from the 80's that my Recorder teacher, Maggie gave to my mum.  Fast forward to 2021 and mum gave it to me where I wore it for my friend's Jane Austen themed Hen day! It's the most sumptuously soft cotton lawn.

Worn with my Karen Millen (charity-shopped) cardigan and some blue boots bought in Florence 2019!

Saturday, I did washing and some cleaning (including successfully using Nancy Birtwhistle's technique to remove some limescale from the taps in the bathrooms!).

CBC took me to my Doctor's appointment.  He's referred me to see a Urologist and to get some scans and ultrasounds (within 2weeks hopefully) plus a bloodtest.  I'm hoping it's Kidney stones perhaps but not sure.

CBC and I then drove to a cycle shop to enquire about a Bike Box as he is taking part in the Mallorca 312 in 3 weeks and we went and we went and had some late lunch at a Pizza restaurant. We shared a Puttanesca pizza with a garlic butter glaze on the crust and it was amazing!!! I don't say that about Pizza very often! We went for a short walk to the seafront and then we returned home

At home, we did some bits and pieces and I read and then I made some dinner.

Easter Sunday, as my abdomen was hurting in the night, I was really tired when my alarm went off at what was (due to clocks going forward) 5am, and I was really sad to miss the 6.15am sunrise service at church.  I got up at 8.30am and was at church by 9.05am to play piano.

It was a lovely, joyful service and I didn't make any major mistakes on the piano! I love this small country church- such a lovely gentle congregation.  After the service, I got a lift to the other church (we have a 2 church parish) for the second service I was playing for. Same songs but totally different service.  Equally joyful but in such a different way! I was inspired and invigorated by the services and am grateful to have faith in a God who loves me!

After church, I cycled home (downhill this time) and ate breakfast with CBC who had STILL not left for cycling. I carried on reading and then spent quite a gentle afternoon.

CBC and I just got back from buying each other an Easter egg at Sainsbury's and we are about to eat dinner!

Wishing you the joy of Easter and fresh chances

xx

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In the red

 Hello there!

How are you? Well, I hope!

Sometimes, when it's time for the weekend, I wonder what to wear that signifies it is the weekend as what I wear for school is often quite relaxed and what I would wear at home anyway.

Then I think, I should wear something that I might not cycle in.

Actually, to be honest, I would probably cycle in this- so that didn't work! However, I do think that the skirt, even when worn with leggings, is probably a little short.

The quality of these photos is grainy but never mind- you don't mind!

All of this outfit is old- the beret, red sweater and boots are all charity-shopped and the skirt and turtle neck were long-ago retail buys and the leggings came from Aldi!

Oh, I do remember there's something that IS new!  Do you see my TARDIS blue necklace and earrings?

They were a freebie from a LOVELY insta friend who used to/still makes acrylic jewellery. I bought a light blue swirly galaxy necklace and she sent me the other one as an extra to spread some joy and because she loves my cosplays. Did I mention that, upon her suggestion, I cosplayed her toddler this Summer too! Apparently, it was a highlight for her! I actually love this one better than the one I purchased!

CBC and I had a lovely Saturday afternoon.  I'm really not sleeping well at the moment. I awake really early with my mind buzzing and thinking about all sorts of things (often school related) and I just can' get back to sleep.  I got up and did all the washing up, washing, bit of tidying and hoovering. I popped out to the charity shop around the corner and picked up a parcel. We headed for a drive to Leigh on Sea where they had a pop up Christmas fair which we enjoyed and bought a couple of presents.  We also visited a few shops including the green-grocer, the charity shop (Cashmere dress!!!!) and the Refill room. The latter was very exciting as they have started to stock Shiitake crisps and Beetroot crisps!  They are delicious!!!

We headed to a Boots to return an item and went out for Italian. We shared a garlic bread and then I had Spaghetti Bolognese (yes, I know it is really Ragu).  I even had a hazelnut dessert which was pleasant though not anything memorable! Back home, we tried watching 2 movies, both of which CBC declared were awful and left me to watch them. Boo to Negative Nelly! I enjoyed them!

Church tomorrow and hopefully a good night's sleep soon!

xx

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TARDIS Tuesday- the obscure Yaz outfit from Revolution of the Daleks

 This week for TARDIS Tuesday, I am going a little niche and obscure! Jodie's era is over but I'm not done with trying to recreate outfits from her companion Yaz (who, random fact here, is the only companion in Doctor Who history to remain with her Doctor throughout the Doctor's whole era).

I featured Yaz's main outfit from Revolution of the Daleks in December 2020 and revisited it in May 2022 but, when the episode aired, it was a little seen outfit that she wore right at the start of the episode that really caught my eye and heart.

Here are my screen grabs of it:

It's the corduroy coat that did it. I LOVE corduroy. I can't tell you why but I have always loved it. My Mum used to tell me about a beautiful pair of petrol-blue Levi cords she used to wear in the 70's which sounded wonderful to me.  In the 90's my viola-friend Chrissie acquired a pair of pale blue Levi cords from her sister. We used to share them in the viola section. Me, Maz and her used to wear these cords. I bought a pair of Bottle green cords from Laura Ashley from the charity shop which I owned until recently but they just got a little too tight.

The coat is navy blue corduroy with a shearling collar and buttons.  She wears it with a black floral shirt with little white flowers and either brown or green foliage. She wears blue jeans and her floral Y & Z necklaces from Alex Monroe.

Back to the corduroy coat. I really liked it and I did a little search on eBay for a navy corduroy coat and by accident, managed to find the Screen accurate coat.  I knew it was the exact one because of the features but also, when I rewatched the scene above, I saw the tiny metal G of the G star reflecting for a split second in the screen. (Later on, I found out that G star items have been worn by Doctor Who characters before)

To my knowledge, no one else has identified the coat so this is its first outing as the identified coat!

The coat is called the G Star Deline coat in navy corduroy. Its retail price was £220!!!! I saw one on eBay in XS for £12.  I didn't buy it at the time as I wasn't sure whether XS would fit me and I am glad I didn't because I managed to find a S version for around £17 later on which fits well.

Here's my coat. It is quilted on the inside and is really cosy and comfortable. It became my favourite Spring coat when I acquired it earlier this year before it had to go away for late Spring and Summer.

I managed to find a H&M black floral shirt that did as good a job as any for the shirt and it has become a staple in my Autumn work wardrobe

I don't have blue jeans that are that colour but I wore the outfit with these indigo denim trousers from ASOS instead.

I added my Screen accurate Dune Pacey boots (which Yaz wears in her first series. I don't know what she wore in this scene.

When I first put together this outfit (last Saturday), I first wore my handmade Y & Z necklaces (made out of silver mirrored card) but to actually go out (we went to the theatre and saw Sweeney Todd at the Palace theatre in Southend), I wore my alternative necklace- my K & Z necklaces for Kez rather than Yaz! They are the best, cheapest alternative to her real Alex Monroe necklaces which retail at £95 each in silver) and are the Avon Lacey necklaces. I am rather fond of them!

A small detail is the silver crystal studs.  They were a Christmas present back in 2005 from my Stepdad's daughter in law!

I wore my hair up in a bun this day and it miraculously stayed up ALL DAY! Twas a miracle!

This is an outfit I like very much. Comfortable and cosy & very easy to wear for work with different trousers!

What do you think?

xxx

Style Imitating Art- Karin at the Shore- Kezzie in the Garden

 I have finally remembered to join in with Style Imitating Art. Salazar is this week's curator and she chose a beautiful watercolour:

“Karin at the Shore” by Swedish artist Carl Larsson

I knew that I had a great Monsoon dress (bought second hand from ex-blogger Char) that really gave a nod to the inspiration:

I wore the same dress for Style Imitating art July 13th 2020 for the Tingklit mask inspiration

The flower print, I think you will agree, bears similarities in colours to the inspiration piece

I have a white frilly hat but it looked too costumey for this outfit so I wore my Grandad's Straw school boater.

As a nod to the woman's blue part of her dress, I wore a Monsoon linen cobweb cardigan (second hand). It's such a soft and gentle cover up.

On my feet, I wore my charity-shopped sand coloured Mary Jane shoes.  I've had these about 3 years and I am gutted that I wrecked one of them last week- I was cycling and I stopped. When I put my foot back on the pedal, I misjudged where I put my foot and ended up catching the side of the shoes where the strap is in the pedal. It ripped it and is now hanging on by a thread. This is really annoying as I wear this for a lot of the warmer weather at school and they are in otherwise great condition.

I'm looking forward to seeing the other outfits for this one so head over to Salazar's on Wednesday.

Hope you had a lovely weekend.

I had a lovely one. On Saturday afternoon, I headed to my orchestra rehearsal with CBC and we did the concert in the evening.  The soloist for the Glazunov Violin concerto was the wonderful Elodie Chousemer-Howells who was String violinist for Young Musician of the Year in 2018. She's such a sweetie and is incredibly talented and knows exactly what she wants the orchestra to do but is very humble despite being such a star. She played amazingly!  One thing I absolutely loved was that after her practice, she joined the 1st violins for the exhausting Tschaikovsky 5th Symphony. In addition, she stuck around to watch us do the symphony in the concert.  What a lovely person as well as being so talented!

In between the rehearsal and the concert, CBC and I headed to the town we lived in when we first got married to go to our favourite Thai restaurant for dinner!

This morning, I headed back to this town to play flute for the service at my old church.  It was the first service taken by the recently licensed (as in yesterday!) Lay Minister Catherine. I ended up playing violin as well as flute and singing.  As CBC was out cycling, I stayed for the barbeque to celebrate Catherine's completion and it was lovely to stick around.  I then came home, went for a walk, did some gardening and school work.

Hope all is well with you!

xx

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TARDIS Tuesday- A second go at Yaz Khan's outfit from Ascension of the Cybermen

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Today's outfit is one I fairly recently featured on the blog- around 10 months ago in April 2021. 

It was worn by Yasmin Khan in the penultimate episode of Series 12 of Doctor Who, alongside Jodie Whittaker.  The frustrating thing about Yaz's outfits is she seems to firmly keep her ubiquitous leather jacket (literally only 4 occasions I can think of where she ISN'T wearing one!) on and you can't really see all the details of her jumpers and tops which makes them really hard to identify from a small gap between sides of the jacket.  Case in point, this top.  We could tell it was floral, sort of pinky, black and white in colour, had some sort of ruffle but beyond that, not much to go on.  What length sleeves? Was it sheer? What material? What exactly was that pattern? What exactly were the colours?  Last time I put togthis outfit, I wore a short-sleeved, wll almost sleeveless blous from Dorothy [erkins with had a triple layer of ruffles.

Anyway, recently, my instagram friend Anna, from Russia, posted a picture of her weaering THE blouse!  In her search for antoher Yaz blouse (which someone else managed to recently identify, IT having a slightly less ambiguous pattern and shape especially since promo trailers had her WITHOUT her wretched jacket on), she somehow found THIS blouse in her search as it was from the samebrand- the ridiculously over-priced All Saints (beloved of Clara AND Yaz for jackets as well as Amy AND River Song!).  She happened to have snagged two at a very reasonable price (not the RRP of £120) and offered to send me one.  And so here it is!

These photos were taken as Storm Franklin was building himself up- my hair was going everywhere!

The most interesting part of this outfit is of course the floral blouse- the rest of it is the standard boring Yaz accompaniments- 

Leather jacket- check (usual Clara one which cost me £5)

Black jeans - check (usual ASOS black work trousers used for every Skinny jean reference ever in a cosplay outfit. There's no way I'm ever getting in skinny jeans)

Yaz's Dune Pacey flatform boots- check (in the alternate black colour from her burgundy ones)

And that's that!  A comfy outfit, good for a chilled day when you aren't doing too much running around or cycling!

First day back at school today was ok.  Nothing amazing but not the worst either.

You?

x

TARDIS Tuesday- Clara's floral outfit from Hide.

Good Evening,

I hope you are well.

I am fine though I'm bemoaning my Bean plants which seem to have not taken well to being shoved out into the cold!  Poor things! They're gone all white and frail looking.

I've had my third teacher training student taking a lesson this year.  I go years without any and I've had three want to do lessons this year!

Today's outfit is 

This week's TARDIS Tuesday is one that I have tried to do a few times.  It is her outfit from Hide, an episode from Series 7 of Doctor Who.

Here is my picture of the outfit which I took at the Doctor Who experience. Clara wears a very 1990's button down dress with a navy casual-looking blazer, a red satchel, black wedged lace-up shoes, a little owl necklace and then some of the time, wears a Barbour jacket over the top.

Image borrowed from this Pinterest but ultimately belongs to the BBC

You can see it on her in these two pictures and you can see her leaning against the ancient stones of the spooky manner where the episode takes place.

IMage borrowed from ClaraOswaldCosplay.comhttps://claraoswaldcosplay.com

Here's this week's version:

It's almost identical to to the last time I wore it but this time, I have the screen accurate jacket but in a tan colour rather than the original grey.  This is quite a hard Clara item to find as there are SOOOOO many Barbour jackets available but the correct one doesn't turn up very often.

The dress is really comfortable to wear and works for my shape well. I wore Navy leggings rather than black tights- they are easier to cycle in.

My navy blazer is a comfortable jersey material- it looks smart but doesn't FEEL too formal.

I wish I could cycle in these Clarks shoes but wedges don't work too well with pedals!

This is an outfit I must wear more for work.  I  like it!

Hope you had an enjoyable day!

x

TARDIS Tuesday- Clara's outfit from Kill The Moon

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:

Image borrowed from:
https://claraoswaldcosplay.dreamconnect.de/?p=639

I did a variation on this outfit back in 2014/15 (I did a post but can't find it!) using my Cath Kidston Paisley floral dress
And here's my version this time:

A fellow Doctor Fan and cosplayer had bought this dress second-hand from another cosplayer but it didn't fit her and she was desperate to sell it so asked me if I was interested in it. I was tempted and she offered it to me for a reasonable price (not a reseller price) so I decided to give it a go!

I was surprised when I received it as I thought it would be a cotton material but it's some sort of synthetic.  I wore it to church and found it really comfortable though, as always, tall girl problems with it being very short on me!

I was able to wear it with the screen accurate Bertie heel lace up shoes featured below.  Clara wears them with a few outfits so it was nice to be able to team them up.

A year 5 girl stopped me in the playground this morning and told me I looked beautiful!  I was rather surprised and touched! Much as it's nice to be told someone likes YOU or something you've done more, it's still nice to be told that!

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

TARDIS Tuesday - Yasmin Khan's outfit from Ascension of the Cybermen & The Timeless Children

Greetings Friends,

I've had a great day, having met my friend M in Southend to do a massive walk along the seafront all the way to Benfleet and back to Southend Victoria (plus a little look round Debenhams)- including my mile walk to and from the station from home, I've walked about 17 miles today and MY, my feet are hurting as are the backs of my calves and thighs. We had a jolly lunch in Leigh-on-Sea in Stop the World Cafe- we got a lovely outside table and were really lucky as they are usually rammed but were happily fairly quiet. I had Sweetcorn and Beetroot fritters with Avocado salsa (with cherry tomatoes, onions, coriander) and a side of Halloumi plus a Smoothie. Healthy AND delicious.  

Realising though that I walked the 17 miles with only this in my stomach, having managed to skip breakfast due to waking late.  By the time I got home, I was SO happy.

Managed to buy 3 very nice bowls in Debenhams (it's closing down) to replace the two that had an accident last week.  Very similar style too. I also bought 2 unwired bras and a pack of knickers AND a 750 killner jar full of sweets!

It was SO nice to see M and have a proper catch-up.  The brilliant thing was, despite it being a really lovely day, Southend seafront was SUPER quiet and we barely met anyone on the way.  The Southend schools are back now but we didn't see lots of day trippers.

CBC came home with newly chopped hair. He was so happy to have it chopped though he's really unhappy with how grey it looks!

Yesterday was also lovely as I got the train over (and cycled) to my Mum's and we ate KFC in her garden!  I love going to her garden as there's always something lovely to look at.  Saw lots of Goldfinches on the feeder too PLUS, she gave me something exciting which I will post about soon!

Onto TARDIS Tuesday.

I wore this on Sunday- for gardening and a brief walk mainly.

It is an outfit worn by Yaz Khan in the penultimate AND final episodes of series 12 of Doctor Who.

Let's have a look at it:

She wears black trousers with a light black white and red/pink ruffle neck blouse with a white vest top (with lace detailing) underneath.  Her ubiquitous leather jacket (All Saints of course) is worn on top and I'm not sure what she wears on her feet.

The costume is not IDed at all so I have been scouting around for alternatives.

Here's what I came up with:

As usual, my same black trousers get dragged out and my Dune Pacey boots as standard.  I added my Clara River Island leather jacket which gets dragged out for any Leather Jacket look.  I wore a Primark lace-trimmed vest underneath and wore a Dorothy Perkins ruffle necked blouse on top.  It's not the best match for Yaz's but I like it and it will do. It's light and comfortable to wear which is the aim.

I added my cubic Zirconia studs as usual and tied my hair back trying to avoid my usual middle parting.

What do you think?

xx

TARDIS Tuesday- Yaz Khan's parting outfit in Revolution of the Daleks

 This week for TARDIS Tuesday, I have something very cool!

The most recent episode shown, Revolution of the Daleks, I featured Yaz's main outfit from the episode in the new year.  Right at the end of the episode, she donned a beautiful floral shirt, along with her ubiquitous All Saints leather jacket as well as her new Alex Monroe Y and Z necklaces, some jeans and, I suspect, her Dune Pacey brogue boots as well as a pink vest top underneath for modesty.

It was a really pretty outfit for Yaz and a few of us really wanted to know where her shirt was from.

I was incredibly lucky, on an eBay search of the rather generic, 'Floral shirt' in that I found this shirt! I looked at it closely and realised it was one and the same shirt, even though the source photos on eBay were terrible and didn't really look like it unless you properly zoomed in!

I ordered it apprehensively and was excited to discover it was correct! It was pretty incredible because one of my friends searched for it after realising I had found out it from was from Whistles, and there are no shop source photos of it to be found on the internet- just the photos of the one I found!

I decided to wear it this Sunday as it was such a beautiful sunny and warm day.  I wore it with a very old but incredibly comfy baggy Cath Kidston red vest underneath and my ubiquitous black trousers.  On top, I wore my All Saints denim jacket and my Dune black Pacey boots on the bottom.  After tying the sides of my hair up (which I like doing as I think it suits me!), I added my home-made (out of shiny silver card) Y and Z necklaces

The shirt will be a good one for going into Spring as it is very lightweight but a good cover up and I can see it going with lots of different outfits in my wardrobe.

So, as far as I see it, I am the first person to recreate this Yaz outfit, which is pretty cool!

Thanks for all your well wishes for the return to school.

The first day was hard.  The dreaded child stayed out with a TA (as it was deemed better to ease him back in) but another child (the sibling of a child who was in my very first class 14 years ago...I still have the family for another 7 years...) was VERY trying. I was incredibly patient with him and managed to get him to do some work but he is so very, very difficult and has already decided he wants to be kicked out of school- so you can imagine it was a little demotivating at times!  The kind TA who was with me was sweet and said that he had responded very well to me compared to other times she was in which was nice of her to say but I did have to give him a LOT of attention.  The nice thing is, I got to know a few of the other children much better than I've ever had time for before (there were 10 of them) and that was really nice. We did some lovely English work this morning and I was really pleased with their work-so that was good.  They also did well in their music lesson which again, was nice!

At lunchtime, I went into Lidl and did a big shop which mainly consisted of masses of vegetables (loose), cheese galore, bread and some flower and vegetable seeds as well as Smoked trout (for Mum as well as us!) How on earth it came to £48, I do not know!

Back to creating the online learning tomorrow- no early train, praise the Lord!