November 29, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Inspiration & Lifestyle

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As I sit here now it sounds pretty nasty out there. The wind is crazy and the carpark across the road appear to have changed it’s life ambition to become a lake, and it’s working really really hard to achieve it. I see lots of people are at home and not travelling due to severe

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Fashion & Beauty

Winter Wardrobe Blues

I’ve really not been feeling my winter wardrobe this year. I normally love my tweeds, jumpers, smart coats and berets. I love the extra opportunities for co-ordination and accessorising that winter presents, but this year I’ve just really not been feeling the love for any of it. I feel like I’ve spent most of the

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Dear Diary

Romantic Legs

Tomorrow it will finally be February. I’m looking forward to January being over, and February brings along an excellent excuse for a celebration, Valentines Day. Lots of people have a funny relationship with Valentines Day, they can’t stand the cliched romance that somehow has to be crow barred into just one day, the heart shaped

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Fitness & Health

The Heat is On: Hot Ginger Rub vs Deep Heat

If your muscles hurt after exercising it’s a good thing, it means you’re pushing yourself and improving. It’s called Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and it seems that no one really knows why it occurs, but the theory is that unaccustomed exercise causes tiny amounts of damage to the muscles, which then repair themselves in

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Food & Drink

Retro Chick Reviews: King of Soho Gin

I’ve mentioned before that I’m not really a gin drinker. I used to avoid gin like the plague, and then I discovered that actually there are some gins I quite like and that not all gins are created equal. With all the botanicals and different recipes used to make them they can be as different

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Food & Drink

Breakfast in Mexico

It’s rainy, dreary, grey and windy. Welcome to Monday. And Saturday and Sunday for that matter. On Saturday I decided grey and dreary needed perking up and the only was to pretend I was on holiday in Mexico for an hour. I got this dress in September last year, and it only got one outing

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Food & Drink

Because You Can’t Be Good All the Time

The other week I was contacted by Waitrose. In January they want to encourage people to enjoy life a bit more and find something to celebrate, so they’re giving away a free bottle of Champagne with all orders over £50. They sent me over a Waitrose voucher and some champagne so I could put together

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Food & Drink

Cocktails with Bettie Page

Last night I took my new dress out for cocktails. Ever since I came back from Las Vegas it’s been hung on the back of my bedroom door eyeing me reproachfully. “I don’t care about your coughing and spluttering” it seemed to say, “I’m a lovely dress, you owe me glamour and cocktails”. So last

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Fitness & Health

Little Niggles and How to Deal With Them

I think niggle is a great word, it sounds nice, I imagine it as a small furry creature, but it’s not so nice a thing to actually deal with. When you start exercising, or up the effort or try something new, you’re likely to suffer from tons of tiny niggles. Some of them will turn

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