Ooooo Aaaaarrr. Or whatever it is stereotypical Sussex country people are supposed to say. This weekend has been distinctly short on glamorous frocks and cocktails and disturbingly high on the stinging nettles and crawling things scale. We own a small patch of woodland in Sussex. There is an old hut on it, that Mr Chick

Today I bring you pretty things. I really have nothing I can add to the commentary on the terrible news of riots across the country that someone else hasn’t already said far more eloquently. So Retro Chick is the place where you can come, have a nice civilised cup of tea and look at some

Last year I went to War & Peace for the first time. Despite me having lived in Kent for years I’d never been, but I loved it and swore to come back this year and bring Mr Chick along with me. A lot of the bits that I particularly enjoyed last year (like the living

You may have noticed I’ve had some website issues (again) this week. I’m still trying to resolve them, but I can’t seem to restore this weeks posts. Therefore my lovely post about the Chap Olympiad is missing. Both Perdita’s Pursuits and Penny Dreadful have lovely blogs about it (with pictures of me, huzzah!) I am

Monday morning dawns again. At least it’s bright and sunny which relieves the trauma slightly, and it was a lovely bright and sunny weekend too! I went to Clutter City (which I’ll write up on Vintage Norwich in the next few days) wandered round a few vintage shops. Fell in love with a 1940s wool

Wanna know where I was yesterday? I was in London filming something for the actual television with Claire Richards (from Steps!). See. I was there to film a small segment on Vanity Sizing and how dress sizes have changed over the years for a documentary on weight issues that Claire is filming for Living TV.

Woo Hoo! I’m going back to this post from January 2010 again. It was the one where I wrote about 4 things I’ve always *really* wanted to own, but have never quite managed to get at the right price or quality. Earlier this year I ticked “cloak” off the list with thanks to a Topshop

Oh yes indeedy-deed we are! For the first time since I left my job in 2007 I am having an actual holiday. One where you’re away for more than 2 nights and you can’t do any work even if you want to. I won’t even be in a city with easily available Wi Fi, I

So Saturday night it was finally time for Swing for Skin on board the HMS Belfast. I’ve mentioned before that I was looking forward to this particularly as the HMS Belfast was one of the ships my Grampy served on in Word War II, he was a gunner and helped sink the German ship the