Trip Planning

I am currently Planning my trip to India. I never Plan my trip anywhere, really. Certainly not to the point of, three weeks out – as I am now – contemplating what to put into a medical kit. My usual pre-overseas trip routine goes like this: Phase One – The 2-3 Days From Idea For [...]

From the (Fashion, Not Flying) Runway

Fashion Week has started in New York. Which means Fashion Month has started. Which means that I am stocking my Virtual Boutique (Department Store?) over at If I Were A Buyer.

Acquired Taste

I seem to have become a coffee drinker. I’ve never been a coffee drinker. We’ve had a fancy coffee machine in our office for 3 years and I have never used it once. Prior to starting full time work 15 years ago, I never drank coffee at all. Disliked it immensely. After starting work there [...]

Simple Salad

While I am well aware that you can’t make friends with salad, you can pretty easily make a meal with it. I am fond of a robust salad as a meal. Especially in summer, but, really, during the whole year. Something loaded up with a mixture of textures and sharp taste. A big salad, if [...]

The Business of Business Class

I unexpectedly got to try out the new Virgin domestic Business Class yesterday. I rarely fly Business Class on domestic flights. It seems distinctly not worth the money or wasting the points on an upgrade for a flight of one or two hours. For a trip to Perth, sure, but otherwise not unless I get [...]

Pesto

So far as Workaholic Single Person Foods go, pesto great staple. Light, easy to make and tasty. Toss it with some pasta, use it on pizza, spread it on bread, put a couple of spoonfuls into a lackluster sauce, or with some vegetables. One of my friends regularly makes a large jar at the weekend [...]

Walk-in

When I moved into this house I took the doors off the main wardrobe to (a) make the room seem bigger; and (b) to see the clothes. The room isn’t small, but it’s long and narrow and the wardrobe was built-in some time after original construction and so makes it even narrower. There is about [...]

Shoe Gush

Beware, Shoe Gushing ahead. Meet my new favourite shoes: While I have a far greater number of high heels and mega high heels than I should given my Old Lady Foot, the practicalities do mean that flats are very important to me. I’m always looking for pairs that are dainty rather than clunky, cushioned but [...]

eBay Sale Time

Yes, with all the shopping I’ve been doing in the sales over the last couple of weeks, it s time to clear out a small part of the wardrobe. So I’ve put a batch of new things up on Ebay. Then I’ll be taking a bunch of other things to the Op Shop. There are [...]

Backing Away from the Animal Print

I rather like a good animal print. I actually think leopard print should be a wardrobe staple. Provided it’s not in legging form, of course: There is no excuse, ever, for animal print leggings. None. Too many cases of (leopard print) tights are not pants should not condemn an otherwise versatile family of prints though. [...]