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Come on summer, we’re ready now…

March 18, 2014 By Ellen

This morning on my constitutional trot, I spotted this chap trotting across the road. By the time I’d fished my phone out from under several layers to take a photo, he’d reached the shelter of a hedge. It was pouring down.  According to the wisdom of the internet, hedgehogs don’t come out of hibernation until […]

Filed Under: clothes, hedgehog, Hotter, seasons, shoes, spring, summer, Vertbaudet

Johnnie Boden and I – a love-hate relationship

January 18, 2014 By Ellen

It all started so well. More than a decade ago (ok nearly 15 years), back in the days I still thought attending mums and toddlers groups were a reasonable use of my time, I overheard a conversation.Some of the yummiest mummies were talking about this fab new place to buy clothes. Oh? Where’s that? Boden […]

Filed Under: Boden, clothes, fashion, Johnny Boden

351/365 It’s Christmas – the clues are all there…

December 18, 2013 By Ellen

This. The first piece of evidence.  I have been looking like this all day. And in public.  Not only did I take Boy Three to nursery but then I went to meet Deb to have a look at the Vettriano Retrospective and have some lunch. We thought we’d see what the fuss was all about […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, boots, Christmas, clothes, forgetting., getting dressed, Jack Vettriano, Vettriano Retrospective.

How to fail at fashion and social media all at once…

December 21, 2012 By Ellen

A bit of a turkey Earlier this week I had an interview for some work… something interesting that would slot nicely into the portfolio career. I was all organised – I’d read as much background as I could find, printed out CVs as requested, put on makeup and dressed as a grown up. A bit like a […]

Filed Under: cautionary tale, clothes, fail, fashion, fashion fail, journalism, Portfolio career, social media, twitter, work

The tyranny of hand-me-downs

March 30, 2012 By Ellen

Look at that. Every day that is one of the first things I see. It makes my lovely and spacious bedroom like a rubbish dump only less smelly (unless the Panther has had an eventful encounter with a lamb bhuna recently). Those bags contain clothes suitable for boy children aged from one to three. Most of […]

Filed Under: babies, clothes, clutter, handmedowns

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