Saturday, 18 February 2012

Cute jumper

£28 Cath Kids jumper.
Image © Cath Kidston

Hacked and Flattered!

I haven’t been here since November last year but it would appear someone else has. I guess it is quite flattering that someone is taking the time to write stuff in my name, that appears when one searchs for my blog, but really - who is going to be searching for my blog?

It’s my own fault really, my last post was about a gift for girls, that the gift was ‘pants’ and ‘13 year old’ appeared in the same sentence might have attracted 14 year old boys with a little too much computer knowledge was furthest from my mind at the time.

So I apologise if anyone has been offended and not least to the 14 year old boy looking for a 13 year old girl in pants.

Friday, 25 November 2011

Pants!

Stuck on what to get your bestfriend’s daughter for Christmas?
How about these Juicy Couture days of the week knickers from Selfridges. A pop at £70 the set!




Monday, 24 October 2011

Tracey Emin Soap Star

Liberty of London have put together a limited edition collection of items designed by Britain’s best loved national treasures ranging from our Queen Viv through to Tracey Emin. All proceeds will go to the designers chosen charity.

Tracey Emin’s is a bar of lavender soap wrapped in an original poem penned in Emin’s signature scrawl, all proceeds going to Art Against Knives. At just £10 that is what I call affordable art!


Tracey Emin Lavender Soap with Handwritten Poem Wrapper.
£10.00 from Liberty London.



Images © Liberty.co.uk




Saturday, 22 October 2011

Funky Letters for Kidsrooms

It’s the weekend. Thank goodness. Here are some quite nice wooden letters from the Victoria & Albert for just £2.50 each.




Images © V&A

Thursday, 20 October 2011


I've had a couple of days work, which means the pockets will be potentially lined, so have been doing a bit of online browsing, during which I found this adorable kids top by Stella McCartney.
Anyone who knows us proper will get it - I could have drawn this, what with bunnies AND fly agaric plus it’s called Billy. Quirky but not too sweet - love it!

Monday, 10 October 2011

Cushion the blow.

Autumn is here, the leaves are coming off the trees, the temperature has dropped and the forecast across the UK is for another long hard Winter. What better way to comfort against the cold than with some new sofa ornamentation (cushions to you or I) to buoy all that extra indoor snuggling time.

These two glorious ones are by Michelle Mason, they’d make lovely Christmas presents too, or is it really too early to be thinking about that?
Cushions £45 from Michelle Mason
Hard-wearing cotton satin with pom-pom trims.
Size: 48cm x 28cm
Images: © Michelle Mason 2011

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Doormats and School Admissions

I have just been composing a letter to attach to the end of our choice of schools for Erbie next September.

Where we live all schools are so oversubscribed it is uncertain whether one will even get into a school within spitting distance. I was told to go with gut instinct when choosing, gut instinct didn’t like the first school we saw but very much liked the two over the road, so fingers crossed and a letter saying I will poo my pants if I have to walk Erbie too far to school in the morning.


Keep Calm and Come In from Graham & Green

I've also been looking at doormats from the plain to the sublime why not make a statement before even stepping over the threshold. Wiping ones wellies need never be tedious again.

Ikea heart doormat £9.99

Union Jack doormat Debenhams £22.50

I Love London Doormat £17.99 from Filoro


Friday, 23 September 2011

My London cake tins

Caught sight of these and thought they were rather good....

My London set of cake tins, Angel Cake and Victoria sponge - £26.99 the pair.
Available online here: amazon


Just had a strange encounter with The Belle Mere, as I was trying to get in the front door with an over-tired and tetchy Erbie and laden with shopping she crept up behind us and started singing. Erbie started to cry and said: ‘Make granpa go away’, and she walked off...

Thursday, 15 September 2011

First school hell.

The GR is fuming – again and has sent me to bed with Erbie – it’s 8.30pm.

He is nearly always cross with me these days. We no longer sleep in the same bed or make any attempt to. He makes a bed from the sofa cushions upstairs, I sleep in bed with Erbie downstairs. Erbie is 3. He’s must be feeling unloved and I’m just plain lonely. We can’t talk to one another nowadays without rubbing the wrong way. He goes off and phones his dad and they discuss stuff, I wonder if he is quietly sabotaging me. I’m probably paranoid.

I printed out a voucher for the cinema today along with the entrance tables for the local schools. I’m worried because even though we live on the doorstep of 3 very good primary schools all of them are oversubscribed, the one we would like Erbie to go to had 550 applicants for 60 places last year. The other 2 are equally oversubscribed. The last child to be accepted lived less than 0.2 miles from the school.

Apparently this is the first year the schools will be allocated from the local council’s central office and it all hangs on ones proximity to the school, befriending the head teacher won’t help but with all our local schools so oversubscribed I fear for Erbie’s future education. The GR is from this area and his experience of school from primary through to finish was appalling. Let Erbie be lucky.

I mentioned it to The GR and managed to send him into a spiral of self-loathing, which got directed at me. “I deliberately tell him bad stuff without any solution. I always pick the wrong time to tell him things, I never say thank-you, I always make him lose his temper in front of Erbie, what more do I want from him…” culmunating with him telling me to start looking for somewhere else to live.

Other nonsense

Quote of the day

‘They tuck you up your mum and dad...’
Anon - after Larkin

“Philately will get you everywhere”
WEM

“It’s not the despair, I can handle the despair. 
It’s the hope I can’t deal with”
Clockwise

“Each new friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

‘Come on Dover move your bloomin’ arse’.
Eliza Doolittle