November 26, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Dear Diary

A Guilty Party

Well, tomorrow is the very last day of what has been a very odd year. For me personally I’ve certainly had worse years, but it’s been a tricky one. Things haven’t gone as well as I’d have liked in some areas, and it’s finished with a lot of upheaval and change that will make the

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Dear Diary

A Photo an Hour – Christmas Day 2016

Well hello there! Some people are back at work today (and about 99% of them are NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT AT ALL) while others seem to have about 5 weeks holiday over Christmas and New Year. Myself, I’m in that self-employed middle ground. Normal service has resumed, but I’m kind of only half paying attention.

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Top of the Retro Chick Pops

Well hello there! How was your Christmas Day? I hope you are all still wallowing in a world where it’s ok to drink booze for breakfast and eat chocolates for lunch? I plan to wallow in that world for as long as possible! I shall be back to talk about Christmas very soon, but in

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Dear Diary

This Week I…..

Oooh look, we’re a day early! I figured a) Christmas Eve is a bit like a Sunday, and b) No one will give a crap about reading about my astonishingly exciting week on Christmas Day. To be honest I suspect no one really gives a crap on Christmas Eve either, but now I’ve committed to

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Retro Chick Competitions

Happy Christmas! And a Christmas Giveaway

Happy Christmas Eve Eve! It’s been a funny old year. December hasn’t bought 12 days of Christmas Outfits (though I did have Snowmen on my knees) or the Advent Calendar giveaway because there’s just been too much going on in my life. I hope normal service will be resumed by next December! I felt weird

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Fashion & Beauty

The Tights with Snowmen on the Knees

Well, it’s finally time to bring out the tights with Snowmen on the knees. Honestly, I’m a bit disappointed because when I put them on I discovered that they basically don’t work with legs my length. I have such short legs that in order to show off the Snowmen I have to wear a skirt

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Fashion & Beauty

More Cocktail Clothes

Oh look, it’s clothes with Cocktails on. Because I really don’t own enough of them, obviously. What with the cocktail skirt and the cocktail cardigan and the cocktail vest. This is the last item that arrived in the lovely little parcel I got from Joanie Clothing, which they sent me specially because they knew I

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Dear Diary

This Week I….

Morning! Well, it’s that time of year when time flies so fast you can barely catch it as it wooshes by! There’s presents to buy, nights out and work is always crazy. Christmas is like a full stop in the year. We need to have perfectly clean houses and all our work wrapped up and

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Cocktails Food & Drink

Festive Cocktails : Winter in Marrakech

Ho Ho HO! Yes, I have another Cocktail recipe for you today! This one isn’t of my own devising, but is instead a recipe sent to me by Opihr Spiced Gin. It’s called Winter in Marrakech. I can tell you that this one is disturbingly easy drinking for a cocktail with 3 shots of booze

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