Hello there!
I hope this blog post finds you well today. Are you happy?
For TARDIS Tuesday today, I am sharing another dressy look after last week's glamorous sequinned evening gown! Thank you for the kind feedback on it! Thank you Mummy too for visiting!
Let's have a look at this week's look!
This is a smart look worn by 10th Doctor companion, Martha Jones, a medical student. Most of her looks are definitely not my thing, a bit like her predecessor, Rose Tyler. However, the look featured today was very much up my street!
https://badwolfcloset.tumblr.com/post/62267819512/martha-jones-series-3-episode-6-the-lazarus
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000257/
Worn in an episode entitled, The Lazarus Experiment, it featured a beautiful plum silk dress from Ted Baker. She paired it with plum-coloured shoes, a necklace and a black crocheted, slightly sparkly headband.
This dress is so pretty and is very much me. I used to own a lovely plum silk v-neck dress which I wore for my friend Tamsin's wedding. I was really sad when it stopped fitting me. In addition, I used to own a Ted Baker dress which was very similar but in a turquoise/teal which also stopped fitting me.
I knew this one would be good because it has a fitted top and a looser bottom half which works well for my pear-shape.
Here are some photos I took.
Ted Baker made several plum silk dresses which are quite similar to this and finding the correct one wasn't something I did really very much but I did find one for £12 on Vinted a while back. It feels really comfortable- perhaps a bit bigger than necessarily but it works.
I had some better shoes (Clara's flapper shoes) to wear but my feet were really swollen and refusing to get into them so I wore my comfortable Somerset Clarks t-bar shoes (charity shopped)
Happily, I realised I had a black-crocheted headband I hadn't worn for a while so I located it. I wore a lovely Whitby Jet necklace my Mum was given when she left a job which is not her style
It's been a really busy week-
Last week, I had a Monday performance at CBC's school playing viola which I didn't get home from until 11pm.
Tuesday, I had an Orchestra of the City rehearsal - I didn't get home till around 11pm.
Wednesday, we had Exhibition Evening at School and then a leaving dinner for a colleague- didn't get home until 10.30pm
Thursday, I had a Gamelan rehearsal- didn't get home until 10.30pm.
Friday- I had an Orchestra of the City concert of Mahler's 5th Symphony. It was a wonderful concert and SUCH a full audience at St Andrew's church, Holborn. But I didn't get home until around midnight!
Saturday, I was supposed to be travelling to East Finchley for the Anglo-Indonesian society picnic at the Indonesian Ambassador's residence but because of the forecast strong winds and rain, it was cancelled. I was incredibly grateful that this was the case as I was INCREDIBLY tired after the last week's late night. In addition, CBC's weekend away in the New Forest for Silver Duke of Edinburgh award was cancelled so it meant I didn't have to leave him all alone. I made us eggs on toast with homegrown perpetual spinach and then I spent most of the day, until 9pm, at home. I did washing, composting, picking fruit, tidying and quite a large amount of time using Sibelius music software to make an arrangement AND to make a new arrangement of a Gamelan piece I wrote at university for flute quartet. I really enjoyed this as I haven't done this for a while.
We headed out to dinner at 9pm at our favourite Thai restaurant which was lovely.
When I got back, I did some more work on Sibelius and stupidly headed to bed at 2am!
I got up at 8am. CBC had woken up at 6am and gone off to catch the train to London to join in with the London to Southend cycle race.
I headed to church at 8.45am on my bike and played flute. It was a lovely service. I came home with a yellow courgette. Lots of people at church share their surplus vegetables from their allotments!
CBC came home and then we headed over to my Mum's to give her her birthday presents. It was really great to see her.
We headed back and now it's onto another week which absolutely NO spare evenings and many late nights!
Only one week of school left!
xx
