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Just thought I would post this extra photograph.... Look what the bags say and our faces!! (Me, left and my friend from USA - at the end of...

Well, yesterday - the day after Thanksgiving was a huge shopping day in USA and we found out it was called 'Black Friday' - not sure...

Happy Thanksgiving from Los Angeles..... Here is the second post on the same day from a different country... is this a first I wonder?? We a...

Hello all - just thought I would take the opportunity to post quickly before we leave Australia for America... The strange thing is that we ...

Tomorrow Mr SE and I are off to USA. Well, to be precise, Los Angeles. Silly English people that we are COMPLETELY FORGOT (apologies dear re...

I do love a good bargain (who doesn't?) and when it is an antique too it is even BETTER!! Photographed above is my still life oil paint...

And each of these is at either end of the spectrum for your money.....!! First up is Nivea Firming Gradual Tan Body Lotion.....Yes, I know ...

Well, what a beautiful selection of Peonys (or is it Peonies, yes, think it is the latter) awaited me this morning at the local market in ...

The area we live in Melbourne (Canterbury) has some gorgeous old origninal weather-boarded houses and these two which I photographed today (...

I stepped off the plane early this morning and was out of the airport by 7.15am - the temperature, even for Australian standards at this tim...

Hello all.... I could not resist the chance to post from halfway across the world and I am writing to you from the Qantas Lounge in Singapor...

To use an Australian term - I have been running around like one.... All day.... Tomorrow afternoon I go to Heathrow Airport and fly back to...

Yesterday it poured with rain .... very miserable weather but the DDD and I went to Bath - a beautiful Georgian City not far from us with ma...

Meanwhile, back in Melbourne they are GEARING UP for Christmas in a big way at Peony (see above - the boutique perfumery that started me on ...

The 11th Day of the 11th Month.... A day of remembering..... Remembrance Day, Veterans Day or, as it is affectionately known here in UK - Po...

I rather like this basket on wheels and can imagine myself at a market filling it to the brim with fresh produce but then a little voice at ...

Sorry (again!) to post so late in the day but I have just returned from a trip to the county of Warwickshire and the University of Warwick i...

Beautiful white flowers (you can never go wrong with them!) from The Real Flower Company (see my previous post dated 23rd October) - wishing...

Well, as promised, I am posting for today, albiet a little late as I was at Indigo all day preparing for our Open Day at the weekend... Indi...

I will be posting today but later on this evening as I am just rushing off here to work...... This is Indigo Antiques - a wonderful place st...

This is what I would so love to find in my Christmas stocking on 25th December.... - wonder if Santa will be willing? (It's from what wa...

I really adore hares.... best of all I love seeing them running wild in the fields near me, here in Wiltshire (UK) - sometimes you are lucky...

I think he is rather gorgeous for a Sunday night... apologies that the photographs are not all that clear - taken last year at the MCG in Me...

I have had a wonderful day in the shop and have come home to upload the photographs I have taken showing some outfits as well as some lovely...

that it will be an interesting post tomorrow as I have been asked to look after a lovely boutique in Marlborough for the day... (Marlboroug...

Today I had the pleasure of meeting SUCH a nice person..... the very lovely Susie ..... we met for coffee at MIPO (see previous posts) and h...

Please excuse the fact that I am very late posting today.... I was asked at the last minute if I could work and of course I said yes as I do...