Silly sisters

 When I got married 8 years ago (almost), I shared some photos on here from my wedding. 

However, the other day, I found the folder of wedding photos and these two caught my eye. The context of these was that my sister was doing up my dress for me and she wanted to go in up the inner corset a bit so she'd just put her freezing, cold hands down the corset to straighten it. I reacted with a suffer and the photographer caught the moment on film! I then poked my tongue out at her in retaliation.

These pictures make me happy as they reflect our relationship. My sister has always taken care of me and provided so much support over the years. We spent a lot of time together as children and she really was very good to spend so much time with me despite the 4 year age gap. 

Recently, there's been something I've been rather anxious about and she's taken the time to talk through it with me and provide support despite being very, very busy and having lots of things to do herself. She understands me the way no one else does: not friends, parents, husband, relations of any sort and I'm grateful to have her.

So these photis are very precious to me.

Style Imitating Art outfit: Booky Summer reading

Hello there!

Hope you are well!

Today is a quick post for Style Imitating Art.

Terri is today's curator and she chose this wonderful painting which her daughter owns.

“Booky-Summer reading led her into fall darkness” by Patty Carroll, which is part of her Anonymous Women series.

I love this painting!  It's so clever and there's so much to look at in it!  I love the chaos and I could probably recreate this in my own home- I'm a bit messy and I own lots of books.  My dining room looks a bit like this with the table full of books, craft stuff and instruments.  Need to clean it by Friday as CBC has his work colleagues round on Friday night.  Sigh.  Like last year but this time 2 colleagues who I like are not invited.  

Anyway, I am usually a stickler for the colours in a Style Imitating Art post but this time, I just decided to go with my first inclination which was to WEAR MY BOOK DRESS!!

I was bought this dress as a Christmas present by my Stepmum and Dad from Cath Kidston.

I decided to wear a drapey cardigan to represent the curtains on either side, even if I didn't have a burgundy cardigan.

My charity-shopped shoes match the colour of the anonymous lady in the painting if not the heel height.

As well as my Cross necklace (handmade by Annie Scales Silver), I snuck a little quote pin from Fable and Black.

I'll write a bit more soon but head over to Terri on Wednesday to see how everyone else interpreted it.

xx

30 + 70 birthday cards

In my summary post of last week, I mentioned the last minute cards I made for my Dad and Sister.

As you should expect by now, there will be a recycled element for the cards I make.

I started with this set of rainbow butterflies which I punched out of waste card and front covers of school books at school which I pulled out of the recycling. This butterfly punch is a real work horse in my crafting artillery- I bought it for our wedding to make confetti out of, it was used for the table names, on the name cards and I will use it for my friend's August wedding this year IF the full-sized wedding can go ahead to make her confetti.

I cut a circle of patterned card out using a jar lid as a template and used some number stickers I had in my stash.

Dad's card only had a little bit of recycling BUT, a very useful one! When my brother in law visited us, he bought along his Easter egg which was from a Cornish company.  It came in a nautical themed box with a cut out of a ship.  I swiped the box once the egg was eaten as I knew I wanted to use it as a stencil to make my Dad's birthday card.  The gold card also came from the box.  The stars say 70 on them.  I was rather proud of my caption inside the car which said, "Sailing into the Seventy Seas."

Here's the Sage plant I gave my Dad. I grew this from cuttings from my own Sage plant.  Doesn't it look healthy!? I'm very proud!

Here's the picture of the beautiful Bell tent that my sister's boyfriend hired for her birthday day.

It was actually a really special part of the day and we were all really informal and relaxed in there.

Hope you are well!

x

From the archives: Top eleven fictional places I would like to visit.

Here's a fun post I wrote back in October 2015. I love lists like this- I find them really interesting to read.  I'd love to see anyon else write this post also!

Top eleven fictional places I would like to visit.

I like a good discussion over fiction and when I saw that Bevchen had done a post entitled, Top 10 fictional places I would like to visit, I knew this was something I would be doing!
https://confuzzledom.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/top-ten-fictional-places-i-would-like-to-visit/

So, without further ado, here are my choices:

1. The chocolate room in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

You know the one.  Now, I confess, I SAW the Gene Wilder Willy Wonka's  Chocolate Factory BEFORE I read the book.  Thus my choice is is a combination of the film AND book version.  Here is the extract from the book I am talking about. In the book, I wanted to drink the hot chocolate river, straight from that frothy waterfall! Because that hot chocolate wouldn't be a mediocre Coffee-shop/Cafe let-down, it would be made of real milk with real chocolate blended beautifully! And trying that minty grass!  And in the film version, I too,like Violet Beauregard would pull one of those giant jelly bears from a tree and eat a lemon cup like Mr Wonka. I'd lick that cream from the NICE mushrooms like Mrs Mike TeeVee, stuff an enormous red licorice rope in my rope like Mr Beauregard!!! Oh this place was my place of wonder as a child!!!



2. The land of treats, The land of take what you please and The land of wishes from the Faraway tree! 
The Faraway tree also features in BevChen's choice but I am quite sure it will be in many Blyton fans' lists. These lands were amazing as you could do what you want, eat what you want, find what you want.  If you don't know the book, strange lands would appear if you climbed a ladder into the cloud at the top of the Faraway Tree, a magical tree. There were some horrid lands too but these ones were the best!

 3. Tom's midnight garden 
I only read Philippa Pearce's book as an adult but it is one of my most favourite books in all the world now.  Tom is having to stay at his Aunt and Uncle's dull house whilst his brother has measles and when the clock strikes 13 after midnight, a beautiful garden would appear in the back garden when he opened the back gate. It was a vast garden from the Victorian era, it would have so many beautiful areas to it and Tom would play with Hattie, a sad little girl he meets there. The descriptions of that garden were so vivid, I longed to be there.  Also, in my mind, the garden was rather like my Grandparents' beautiful, huge garden so it has happy memory associations too!  I saw a beautiful film version of the book too and the garden they used in the film surpassed my imagination. Not often that happens in an adaptation!

 4. Perelandra when it was first formed in C.S. Lewis' Voyage to Venus.
C.S. Lewis wrote a beautiful Sci-fi trilogy and in the second book, Voyage to Venus, Ransome, the main character travels to Venus to try to stop this evil character from ruining the new paradise.  The description of Perelandra (the old universe language version of Venus), is just so imaginative.  The land is made up of sea with islands that float and move with the waves,so the land ripples as you walk on it. And there were these trees with these bubbles on them that when you walked through them, refreshed and cleansed you as an alternative to a shower.  These seemed so amazing, I longed to try them. Perelandra did not fall to temptation so it remained a beautiful place which Ransome longs to return to, the true fulfilment of what the garden of Eden could have been. He is truly changed by his visit to Perelandra and I long to go there to a place without sin and illness.

 5. Kirrin Island. from Enid Blyton's Famous Five series
I strongly suspect that the reason I adore visiting small islands is that in my subconscious, I am seeking Kirrin Island, the small island that belonged to George Kirrin. It had a ruined castle with dungeons that concealed gold (1.Five on a Treasure island), an underwater tunnel from the mainland that was naturally formed (6. Five on Kirrin Island again) , a wonderful perfect cave with a hole in the ceiling for light (3. Five run away together)and a natural stone shelf round the edge, a perfect swimming pool amongst the rocks and tame wild rabbits! And the children had it all to themselves!

 6. The Wandering shop. 
Ankh Morpork sounds a bit grubby and dangerous for me BUT In Terry Pratchett's books:

Certain constants apply to these shops. They carry exactly what the person is looking for, even if they aren't looking for anything particular; Out of all the myriad items, most of which are broken, the most powerful and mystical one will be the most ordinary looking, and the most affordable; and the shop owner will be older than mud, but sharper than flint.

These shops will appear in rarely travelled side streets, and will look as though they have been there forever. The next time the customers return (often to return the purchased items) the shop will be gone, the space it occupied looking as though it has been that way forever as well.

Quantum is suspected to play a large part in this, though some people believe it's just a clever way to avoid various Sunday Closing laws, while others believe these shops form an Emporium, a galactic empire controlled by shopkeepers.

Tempting thought these explanations are, and while noting that they seem to fit the observed facts, they are almost entirely wrong.

This description is borrowed from Wikilspace.

I loved the idea of a shop that was only there sometimes and then disappeared! To actually find one of these would be very exciting, even if I did end up buying a whole load of tat!

7.  The Room of Requirement.   First seen in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.  
When I read the description of the Room of Requirement, I knew this was a place I wanted to visit.  The place of lost things which was piled up. I'd love to go there and have a good rummage through! When I read the last Harry Potter book, as soon as the lost Diadem of Ravenclaw was mentioned, I said it had to be the tiara on the bust where Harry hid the Half Blood Prince's spell book! I always wanted to read the Half Blood Prince's spell book too!
I'd love to visit the room where the DA met as well and have a lovely long read without being disturbed! It would have all the tea I could possibly want to drink and copious bags of Wotsits!

8.  Northanger Abbey.  
I'd love to go and stay in Northanger Abbey with Catherine Morland and Mr Tillney. To see if it was really very ordinary or very scary.  I'd also love to visit the Lower Rooms in Bath with them to experience the assembly!

9.  The Land of Oz.
I did wonder if I could narrow down one place in Oz I'd like to visit but there are so many interesting places within Oz, that I couldn't choose.  I've read all of the 15 original Oz books by L. Frank Baum and the places within were so exciting! Even though, strictly speaking, it was in the Land of Ev, rather than the land of Oz, I'd love to visit the Nome King's land where the ground was made up of precious gems (Tiktok of Oz) and visit the cavern filled with all his treasures (Ozma of Oz), I'd pick a lunchpail and a dinner pail from the trees in Ozma of Oz. The Emerald City would be amazing to see as would Glinda's palace and I always fancied visiting Miss Cuttenclip's (The Emerald City of Oz) where all the people are made out of paper and Bunnybury (ibid) where all the inhabitants are rabbits!

10. Smuggler's Top.
Enid Blyton has a lot to answer for.  Smuggler's Top is a mysterious old house surrounded by marshes absolutely riddled with secret passages galore. Top of my bucket list is to find a real secret passage, and this place was where I got that zeal from!!! I would love to explore all the passages with my torch, the Famous Five and a nice big picnic!

11.  Narnia when it was formed.

Of course I'd love to climb through the wardrobe and find that amazing land, but I'd also like to visit the wood between the worlds and see Narnia as Aslan formed it in the very beginning by singing that song. What would that song sound like, a song which brings stars, entities, plants and animals into existence???? It would be the most beautiful, glorious song ever heard.   It would be glorious to see that and have that privilege to witness that!

It's very hard to narrow it down, but these immediately came to mind.
I would LOVE to read your post if you felt compelled to write one too so if you do, please leave me a link and I will be there like a shot!!!
xx

Last week

 Hi there!

I've felt curiously unmotivated to get on my computer and blog in the last week or so. I apologise for that.

What's been going on?

The previous weekend, after a Saturday where I woke up at 5am, I was doing some housework.  After I packed up a parcel for the lovely Vix, I was coming out quickly out of the spare room with a washing basket and a parcel when I misjudged the angle and ended up smashing my bare toes and top of my right foot into the door frame. I lost my balance and I fell on my foot.  And then I couldn't walk on it! I spent the rest of the day, apart from a trip to the post office and a Thai meal out in the evening, limping around and finally doing some sitting down with my feet up.

Luckily, the next morning, my foot was much improved.  I walked to the station and got the train to Southend on travelled to Thorpe Bay to meet my sister and niece for a day at the beach. It was so lovely on the beach and not too crowded (compared to all the other beaches!).  We swam in warm waters and had a truly jolly time.

For the last week at school, as well as my regular lessons and activities, I've been doing an extra project.  We've got this push on this term to promote particular dispositions of learning such as persistence, creativity, resilience, adaptability, reflectiveness and a staff member has been tasked with getting the children to create characters for an animation with voiceover explaining what that disposition is.  She asked me if I would be able to work with some children to record music for the animation that would fit the mood and character of the voice over and disposition.  I agreed but in the 3 weeks available to do it, I needed to find a time when I could take a small group of kids to do it so we agreed I would take 6-7 children, those who come in early for 20minutes on a Monday and Tuesday morning during registration.   Rather than the children composing the music (which would be quite time consuming and let's be honest, asking a set of children to create music that shows 'resilience' and fits a particular length of time and then 4 other mindsets in 6 20 minute sessions is a bit of an ask with a looming deadline...it takes them a while to brainstorm, let alone compose, perfect AND perform), I agreed that I would compose music for each one and then teach it to the children and get it recorded.  

So last Monday, I created the Reflective Music and the Year 5 kids managed to learn it and record it in the 20minute slot.  The next morning, 6 year 6 children learnt and recorded the 'Persistent' music.  I'm pleased to say that the staff member and the Head teacher were utterly delighted with the first two offerings so that's a relief.  It was fun for the kids (I think) as they had the experience of what it is like for a recording artist in a very simple way- having to do 10 takes of something, makings silly mistakes when time is so crucial, being precise.  I shared my experience as an 11 year old of being chosen to sing for an animated film called The Mousehole cat.  We were taken to a recording studio in Hertfordshire late at night and had to record it and during one take, I accidentally coughed.  They stopped the recording and asked who had coughed. I was so scared that I didn't tell!  The amount of money it was costing to be in that studio was drummed into us!

(here's a little trailer from the film. Sadly not our song bit!) 

School on Monday was actually good.  I always like my Summer music lessons- it's like I save my favourite learning till the Summer.

Chords with Year 5 - teaching them to how play any major or minor chord, Year 4's were enjoying pretending to be the orchestra for the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten as a fun interactive way to get them to understand the structure of the fugue at the end.

Tuesday was a day of Year 6 learning to play Papageno's aria Ein Madchen oder Weibchen from Mozart's Magic Flute opera on the glockenspiels to emulate Papageno's Magic Bells.  The kids seem fascinated by Opera and I will always recommend the Magic Flute as a good introduction to opera.

Tuesday after school saw me clearing our some of the planters and one of the raised beds so that I could do some planting out of volunteer tomato plants.  I discovered about 40 tomato plants growing in my raised bed 2 weeks ago- for some reason they have appeared so I potted up about 20 and took them to school- gave away some to staff and then planted out some in the school.  My headteacher came out as I was weeding a planter and told me that he had been looking at them as well and thinking they really needed to be done!

I also agreed to sort out the hanging baskets and I put some nasturtium seeds in them for now so at least there will be something fresh growing and the soil in them is awful- apparently Nasturtiums don't mind that.  I did also put a little compost in too.

Wednesday was an unexpected boon.  After my Recorder Club in the morning, I taught my Year 4's who had a raucous time composing their own poems about the orchestra to use as a basis for a fugue for the next stage of Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.  After that, I was supposed to have Year 3 for three lessons on the recorder but AMAZINGLY it turned out to be Egyptian Day for Year 3 and we had a company called Portals from the Past who did an immersive Egyptian day experience for the Year 3's so I was just supporting and supervising. It was superb!  We had a maths lesson using Egyptian rulers to do measuring, an artefact lesson, a quiz geography lesson, (they had a dance lesson I missed as it was when I was in year 4) and in the afternoon, there was an interactive story telling drama.  It was brilliant as certain children were involved dressing up and doing special parts.  At the very end, yours truly was chosen to be the evil queen who paid off the governor to assassinate the dowager Pharoah's wife.  I got to act evil and then had a hall of 90 children all bowing and genuflecting to me calling my name! It was hilarious! I am much better at acting as evil characters than good ones.  Later, one of the teachers asked the children what their favourite part of the day was and they said, "The bit where Mrs P killed S!"

Another good choir session after school- the lovely student teacher had been persuaded by me to teach the children a song and she found this absolute cracker- Sansa Kroma.  We also worked on some Abba and a new song called City Life.

Thursday was a hard day with Year 1 and 2 on a day with wet play ALL day but they managed to do what I wanted them to!

Drumming Club after school was also hard work. They were also bonkers after the rain. I have a fantastic bunch this term- all the most rhythmic and capable children, they pick up Samba rhythms in a heartbeat but they were CRAZY!

After school, CBC had to get ready to go to our Music Camp for the weekend. I was so jealous- it's been almost 2 years since I've been!  I planted out my two Crystal cucumber plants in the bed where I'd cut back the Hellebores and the Viburnum and a remaining bean plant and watered the garden. Of course it rained about an hour after that. I was outside in my raincoat and pajamas filling watering cans and buckets with water. 

Friday morning, I set off in the pouring rain on my bike, leaving CBC packing the car.  Alas, I was 13minutes into my journey when the driver turfed us all off the train.   Apparently, the overhead wires had come down between us and the next station.  It was pouring with rain and the roof on the Pagoda (or whatever you call that roof thing that you stand under at the station) was unbelievably leaky. And just what you want in a pandemic is to have train loads of people all trying to crowd under a small, leaky roof.

As usual, the poor staff at the station didn't have a clue what was going on, the announcements were inaudible and lacked information. After a while, an announcement told us that rail replacement buses were being summoned but a) they had no clue when they would leave and arrive, b) there would be no trains for at least an hour or so if not longer, c) they suggested we go home on the trains that were arriving as they had to go back the other way whilst they still could.  I was told by my Deputy Head, who I phoned, to just go home.  I had PPA in time in the afternoon, and she said, by the time I might get there, it would be only possibly one lesson I might teach and she didn't want me to have to be crammed into buses that might take hours full of people.

So I went home!  I was set some quite important tasks to do which kept me working till 4pm once I got home.  It was quite nice to be cosy inside whilst it was pouring with rain, even if I was a bit stressed doing the work I was doing.

After that, I had a frantic card making session to make a 70th birthday card for my Dad and a 30th birthday card for my sister. It was all a bit manic!

After I finished, I had to pack my bags because I was going to my Mum's for the night whilst CBC was away.  She asked me to get there before 7pm so I had a frantic packing.  I discovered a problem.  I had bought my younger sister a hammock for her 30th birthday present. A Hammock with a metal frame.

A Hammock frame that was in a box that was 160cm tall and 60cm wide that weighed quite a bit.  Along with a large canvas hammock with ropes and wooden blocks in another box.  As well as a Sage plant for my Dad and my weekend bag.  Which I had to get to the station and then get on 2 trains.

I tried a taxi firm that they didn't answer their phone. So I was left with no option but to carry it all to the station in my trolley on wheels.  It was SO awkward and heavy and slow- it was almost as tall as me!   When I arrived at the first terminus, I had to walk 0.4miles to the other train line.  Annoyingly, up to that point, the trains had been every 12 minutes. At that time, it was 35minutes till the next train.

I went to the the Royal Mail Parcel depot to pick up a parcel which had arrived from Vix on Thursday but I'd not been in.  I added it to my trolley bag, stuffed in on top of my Sage plant.

Finally, I arrived at Mum's station.  She was there to get me.

Honestly, by the time I got there, I was hot, sweaty, aching and thoroughly fed up of that wretched hammock!

At Mum's, she made me a cup of tea (much needed!!) and we had a quick look round her amazing garden  and then served me up a portion of delicious Penne Ragu (I would say Spaghetti Bolognese but the pedantic instagrammers, aka my husband jumped on my nomenclature of the picture of it that I posted) followed by homegrown strawberries with ice-cream and homemade Elderflower and Rose cordial.

We watched Gardener's World and had some relaxed reading/crocheting respectively. We then had showers and headed off to bed to read.   Before we went to sleep, I gave my Mum a foot massage which I know she appreciates and had not had for over a year!

In the morning, I woke around 6.45am, as did Mum, so she made a cup of tea and we read in our beds.  After showers, she made us breakfast which was homemade Baked beans (haricot beans in tomato sauce with tiny bits of bacon) and bacon plus Grapefruit juice.

After that, we filmed a little video in the garden which she wants to send off to Gardener's World.

She had thoroughly spoiled me and I was really sad to be having to leave her at around 11.30pm.

My sister arrived in her car to take us over to my Dad's house for the joint 100th birthday party!

When we arrived, we saw that A's (younger sister) boyfriend had hired a furnished Bell tent for her birthday! It was SO pretty.

We had a really enjoyable afternoon in the cold garden eating barbeque food and salads. I was delighted to chat to my Stepmum's Mum (it always feels weird saying "Stepnan!") who I am incredibly fond of and is in her 90's and discover that she worked as a Machinist for Biba in the 1960's!  How amazing is that!?!?  It was really nice to be able to engage her in some fun, varied conversation, as she has dementia and I know it distresses my Stepmum how she repeats the same things but she was chatting about lots of things.

Finally, later on, we all headed into the Belltent which was so cosy and fun with beanbags, blankets, candles and lights and had a really fun time chatting.

We reluctantly had to head home and my brother-in-law gave me a lift home (which was good as I had a hamper for CBC and a plant...belated birthday present).

After reading my book, Frostheart, Escape from Aurora, I went to bed!

The next morning, I got up and did the washing up from Thursday night (eeek!!!! I hasten to add,it wasn't me that was SUPPOSED to do it).  I then joined church on Youtube.

After church, I spent the majority of the day cleaning and tidying my house and putting away washing.

CBC finally returned at around 7pm from camp and I made him dinner.

Finally, after dinner, I went up to write the next instalment of the dispositions of learning...Resilience.

And that's my last week.  I was really too tired to write anything last week.

Hope you are well.

xx

TARDIS Tuesday- Peri Brown from The Caves of Androzani

This week for TARDIS Tuesday, I was wracking my brain to think of an outfit to wear that was appropriate to wear for this weather and then my friend Katie inspired me as she had posted an outfit she had put together worn by 1980's companion with the 5th and 6th Doctor, Peri/Perpigillian Brown.

She wore a louder outfit than mine (and brilliant it was too!) but I remembered I had the elements for this outfit which she wears in 5th Doctor Swansong, The Caves of Androzani (which is actually my favourite Classic Doctor Who episode).

Image borrowed from:
https://hoganreviews.co.uk/2017/12/16/dw-the-caves-of-androzani-review/ 

Image borrowed from:
http://theruedmorgue.blogspot.com/2012/02/doctor-who-caves-of-androzani-special.html

She wears pink high-waisted shorts with a pink top of some sort underneath. She wears simple white pumps on her feet and on top, she has a pastel checked blouse which looks cream from a distance but seems to have very light pastel checks on it.

Here's outfit number 1:

I bought some vintage 80's high-waisted shorts a year ago or so, second hand for peanuts which worked well for this outfit. I wore my Cath Kidston red vest top underneath and then added my 5th Doctor question mark shirt (embroidered by Ang) over the top, tied at the waist.

I then added my Toms sandals.

Originally, I tried wearing my pastel rainbow shirt over the top but it looked TOO colourful so I swapped it for the white shirt instead.

This was a great outfit for a warm day.

If you want to see The Caves of Androzani, you can catch it here on The Daily Motion.

Hope you are having a nice day!

xx

Old hair! New hair!

As you know, I've been growing my hair for the past 2 years in order to donate it.  Alas, it doesn't seem to have grown THAT much in the last year but I wanted to do something nice with it.

It HAS been driving me round the bend in many ways- it moults dreadfully, takes ages to wash, scraggy at the ends and unless it's just been brushed, looked a mess.

BUT, it was nice to be able to do lots of different styles with it.

Here's a last few outings for my long hair:

This was at The Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate where we stayed once again on our way up to Northumberland.  We took the obligatory photo with the towel swan! (wearing my Seasalt Daisy dress that CBC bought me as an unexpected present last August).

And here at 'Stay on the Hill' in Warden in Hexham as we were just about to go out for dinner at the Beaumont on Sunday night (wearing my Emily and Fin dress and Clarks Somerset shoes)

Here, standing outside a pretty shop in Harrogate after our breakfast at Betty's tearoom and below, outside The Old Swan. (Wearing a charity shopped dress (no label), vintage hat, Toms ruby slippers and H&M sand jacket).

I knew that I wanted to get my hair cut in Northumberland (at a salon I've had it cut at before).  We had been walking along Hadrian's Wall on Wednesday and had met CBC's Mum at a nice quiet garden centre for a late lunch.  We tried calling that Salon and another one in town but they didn't have an appointment.  We went into town so CBC could buy some paint to paint his Mum's garage door (we both did a project on it- I cleared and tidied it out) and I took a chance on going into a salon that was still open near the Forum cinema and they agreed.

The hairdresser was SUCH a sweetie and said I was her 3rd hair donation cut of the day!

She tied it in a loose plait and snipped it off and put it into an envelope for me.

It was SO nice to have someone wash my hair for me (I love it when someone scratches my scalp too!) and to dry it- I felt very pampered...

And there it is:

Super pleased with it and I've had SO many positive comments from children and colleagues.  One child said, "Mrs P, you've copied my hair! Look, we've got the same hair!" (the same child who requested I wear my fox themed outfit a few weeks ago.  Today, she requested an all red outfit for next week "Red dress,red shoes,red necklace, red bracelet, red ring Miss!" Ha!)   All the girls with short bobs love it as they all think it looks like them!

I'm loving how light it is!

x

TARDIS Tuesday outfit - Yasmin Khan from Orphan 55

 Hi there!

Oopsie, I've been away for a while! Had a lovely half term holiday which I'll share some of soon, but thought I'd stick to regular scheduling with a bit of TARDIS Tuesday.

Today's outfit was worn by Yasmin Khan in an episode last year, Orphan 55.  I was very happy and lucky to have managed to ID the main piece in the costume and buy it at the time (and wear it here last January) but last time I wore it in the winter.  This time, I'm wearing it in the Summer.

Image borrowed from 
https://www.doctor-who-ita.it/images/DW_1203_1920x1080.jpg 

And here's mine.  I decided to have a bit of fun and mimic some of the poses in the promo shots this time.

I started with the Warehouse Tulip jumpsuit which was a really nice, cool, practical garment for a Summer's Day at school.  Given that I was prancing all over the music room today teaching the Year 6's Papageno's song from the Magic Flute, it was a good choice for leaping onto chairs and the suchlike.

I didn't wear my Clara leather jacket (always doubles for Yaz) for school but added it for the photos after school in the garden.   My trusty Dune Pacey wedge boots may be the wrong colour but they are the right shape.

If you look carefully, you will also see my Alex Monroe posy necklace which makes this outfit more screen accurate and is a nice delicate touch.

I'm so glad when it gets to the evening.  It was SUCH a glorious half term holiday, the May half term holiday is ALWAYS the best holiday and I have so many happy memories from trips taken at this time, throughout my whole life.

The eagle-eyed of you may notice I finally had my hair cut...but more on that another day.

Hope you are well and happy.

xx