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How amazing is the above Alexander Mcqueen bag? It's funky, it's pretty, it's a little bit rebellious. I have no idea where I would use it (or how I would find the money to buy it) but it is seriously cool. The local shops is completely an appropriate place to use this right?

I also have a bit of a thing for Barbour which the chilly weather of late has reignited. I really want one of their coats like this jacket but also found this bag on the site too. Both are deliciously lovely but rather pricey

On to something completely different'.... further to my previous post on people I have encountered on public transport, I saw the strangest man this morning. He looked to me as if he had just stepped out of a book or an odd dream. He was about 55, tall and skinny with a red tie, black waistcoat and a dusty looking old fashioned black evening jacket with tails and slim fitting black trousers. Once on the bus he put on a pair of large black sunglasses which he wore on top of his normal glasses. I noticed his nails were painted black and he was smoking a cigarette completely oblivious to the scowl he was receiving from the woman sitting next to him. Every so often he would call out things like "Thats £400,000 down the drain". He had an air about him of someone who had once been impressive and well off but who had fallen on hard times.

I wish I had had my camera on me in one way but in another I was glad I didn't as it was kind of sad. Perhaps I will include him in one of my books I am writing and preserve him that way?

Hope you all had a happy weekend and for those of you in England enjoyed the sudden appearance of hot weather.

Until next time my dears

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Giddy

Can I just say I feel a leeetle bit giddy right now.

And no it's not because it's National Speak Like a Pirate day tomorrow (Arrr, so it be, Arrr).

No, no nor is it because I got paid again today (I know, Again!).

And, no, wrong again, it's not because I saw a girl wearing a mac with small poodles on it this morning (Poodles hee hee).

It is in fact because people are looking at this blog and commenting on it. I have four, count 'em, FOUR followers now! And comments on stuff what I wrote and everyfink.

This. Feels. Great.

I'm giving you all a big virtual bear hug right now (i'm pretty tall so it'll be a good one) *squeeze*. Can you feel it? *squeeeeeze*

This is for you, you sure do deserve it.

Oh and the above cuuuute book is available at Etsy here.


Have a super weekend people. You rock.
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Glasses love.

My frequent forays onto public transport of late has led to me encountering some pretty ... well, diverse people.

One day I had a pleasant conversation with an old couple on the perils of sitting backwards whilst travelling (trains ok, buses never).

Another day I sat next to a girl who, when she opened her handbag, smelt like plasticine (not unpleasantly oddly enough).

Last week I brushed a mans crotch with my hand (it was Not like I was groping I'll have you know, and this was definitely not some kind of weird feely touchy bus.)

Oh and yesterday I stood too close for comfort next to a woman who smelt like rotten flowers. Don't know if she had been rolling about in them or whether you can actually buy perfume like that?

But I digress from the main purpose of my post. On Friday I sat opposite a remarkably pretty girl wearing these glasses. I can pretty much safely say I have never been in love with eye wear before (unless you count an affection for Harry Potter's optical aids), but now, now I want these glasses really REALLY bad. I do however get a sneaking suspicion I would look like the below picture rather than pretty train girl.

It was raining torentially yesterday. I think London looks even lovlier in the rain if that's possible. The grey sky is to me the best backdrop for this city and seems to increase the saturation of all the colours.

The sudden downpour also led to floury of cute umbrellas going up and a parade of enviable macs. One girl was wearing a Burbery mac - swoon!

Today I got given a peach, saw a man in a bowler hat and sat by a fountain for lunch. Good times.

Toodle-oo.
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Pay Day

On Friday I Got Paid. Yup that's right I got money going into my account not just out.

I felt so decadent drawing £40 out of my bank account and nearly skipped away from the cash machine.

Feel like I've got loads to talk about on here at the moment and need a proper sit down to organise my thoughts and pictures and musings. Soooo, sit tight and remeber good things come to those who wait right? OK? Good.

Happy Monday lovely people

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The things I have seen.

I've been spending a lot of time on trains at the moment - most the time I feel like a piece of cattle penned in by towering businessmen in varying degrees of pinstripe. However, I have also had a delightful time gazing out of windows and dreaming of the English countryside

On Monday I saw a stormy iron grey sky turn the pale yellow of cut corn into an expanse of deep honey gold and the trees into a lush wall of emerald.

Yesterday I saw the sky turn the pale blue of duck eggs overhead whilst the horizon was the sharp yellow of lemons and the fresh tilled fields below like a swathe of soft brown velvet.





Edward Steichan's pictures go some way to explaining in picture form how the countryside makes me feel. He captures the world in a way I see in my head but know I could never get my camera to portray.

I so want to bathe in that pond don't you?

Neglect and apologies

I have shamefully neglected my dear blog over the past week and for that I apologise. My only excuse is that I have been working. Yes, that's right I have A Job. The temporary position that an agency have been dangling tantalizingly before me for the past couple of weeks finally came through and I am working at a large law firm in London until the end of the month.

I am enjoying the experience of working in London very much. The atmosphere is in London is unlike any other I know of. The grand buildings interspersed with curious Harry Potter like structures, the stream of iconic black cabs and red buses and the hustle and bustle of the streets all amounts to something exciting and special and the feeling you are in the middle of something great.

I hope to take a few pictures whilst I am working in this city which I shall share with you.

I have just finished reading 'The Last Templar' by Raymond Khoury - I always have an interest in books on the Knights Templar. The book was quite compelling but not brilliantly written, and a little predictable in places. I plan to read The Idiot next and will let you know of my thinkings on it.

Another day, another job hunt.

A few months ago I was sure I would be employed by the end of August. However, as is often the case with these strange feelings of certainty one has about the future, the end of August has come and gone and I am still without a job. I can't believe it will be too much longer before I get a job - if it is, then Christmas presents will consist primarily of hand knitted scarfs (I can only knit in straight lines) and copious amounts of paper mache with glitter.

I'm trying to view my time without work as an opportunity to pursue my other interests which have had to take a definite back seat whilst I have been studying. This is one of the reasons I started this blog in the first place. I personally enjoy blogs which are, without sounding too corny, 'from the heart', and not just how perfect life is. Hopefully this blog will be like that too - things which make me smile and I enjoy coupled with my reality.

I enjoyed the long weekend just gone. Had a mini splurge on DVD purchasing - Yes Man (very very funny although not a particularly accurate representation of the book), Little Blackbook (one of my favourites - possibly for it's abundance of Carly Simon songs) and The Mystic Pizza (how could I resist a film with that name I ask you?).

I also accidentally bought the American InStyle magazine at the weekend. It was interesting to see how different American magazines are to English ones. Came across the phrase "Jonesing it" - never heard of this before. Can only assume it's to do with keeping up with the Joneses? The mysteries of the English language across the pond eh.

Plus my raspberry plant continues to blossom and I hope it wont be too long before I get some fruit.

I leave you with a little gift which made me laugh, hopefully you will too

Here you go

Lots more giggle inducing Beartato here

Have a nice day
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