tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70682794789953660602024-03-10T00:21:35.723+00:00The Small Fabric Of My LifeThe Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.comBlogger1048125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-37043744418447620852024-02-27T16:39:00.004+00:002024-02-27T16:39:30.185+00:00First 24 Hours in India<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSDqCZeXGH_h53DbPgs2EbA1rU7JrBNyHynRSB3o_l-d__KWTLlyrar5P6kX7qN5bKvLEUV2M4l-4jwBJh3bLdcIliinq3wq1CwKvc0J5UCMga6-8O-dgYQXy1PPMJhZX9MBnlu7B2HJBk-QJncGJDKHtxskiW90E9MS_dh1ytt86_AyjywmHylmDNsLU/s4032/IMG_1388.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSDqCZeXGH_h53DbPgs2EbA1rU7JrBNyHynRSB3o_l-d__KWTLlyrar5P6kX7qN5bKvLEUV2M4l-4jwBJh3bLdcIliinq3wq1CwKvc0J5UCMga6-8O-dgYQXy1PPMJhZX9MBnlu7B2HJBk-QJncGJDKHtxskiW90E9MS_dh1ytt86_AyjywmHylmDNsLU/w300-h400/IMG_1388.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Ten years after qualifying as a yoga teacher I finally realised a dream - to travel to the birthplace of yoga.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I have been planning this trip for over 18 months and by the time we landed at Manchester Airport at some ungodly hour on a January morning I was so overexcited I took off this beautiful blue scarf somewhere and lost it.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Hey ho, it was good while it lasted!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am so nesh and I hate to be cold so I wore a long dress that hid a pair of jeans and a thermal layer underneath.My North Face jacket was in my bag.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After this photo was taken we had two flights to contend with. The first to Doha and the second to Trivandrum which was just 40 minutes from the Keralan fishing village we had chosen as our base.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We arrived at 3.30am to find the hotel porter fast asleep on a table and a lizard lounging in our room.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We were so tired we collapsed in our bed.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbiCWYSOSASlZErXHDOE85gbBDYjdSZHU6JVlEwFJr8LUPXMphxeBbTA5oil59mzgC9_fHn5gC1bc72sqwwKmO3Va2TVWOcGmL7NZhTLLMSdsBv7TYSgl4wXx5l5CtqThbVjz_eyTe3gyHoTutPkKaPhaU6p4gUutYZp5ne_buZ2J6vUH6mTWa42JwJQ/s4032/IMG_1419.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbiCWYSOSASlZErXHDOE85gbBDYjdSZHU6JVlEwFJr8LUPXMphxeBbTA5oil59mzgC9_fHn5gC1bc72sqwwKmO3Va2TVWOcGmL7NZhTLLMSdsBv7TYSgl4wXx5l5CtqThbVjz_eyTe3gyHoTutPkKaPhaU6p4gUutYZp5ne_buZ2J6vUH6mTWa42JwJQ/w300-h400/IMG_1419.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But to paraphrase Guy Garvey when we woke we threw those curtains wide and from our balcony we knew that we had more than one day like this for this year.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Howe glorious is that view from our bed?</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8G_AoOFejuYgldRXzq5d-p-AULnIxrsuXvFc8ChDlNSdRchvu9-p7YUtyNvBY-WoILfREDk3RtcqHlCVzQcu2Oe8Q5pHvx4ePmt3N3uPe6iu5WCeMZghH-1w_Y0m1wj8WNYOuVUM0xpj1G8HojQP2ma7oPfslw-CJPQo3GPdt8GqnSPV_fNGhyLp1dOs/s4032/IMG_1432.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8G_AoOFejuYgldRXzq5d-p-AULnIxrsuXvFc8ChDlNSdRchvu9-p7YUtyNvBY-WoILfREDk3RtcqHlCVzQcu2Oe8Q5pHvx4ePmt3N3uPe6iu5WCeMZghH-1w_Y0m1wj8WNYOuVUM0xpj1G8HojQP2ma7oPfslw-CJPQo3GPdt8GqnSPV_fNGhyLp1dOs/w300-h400/IMG_1432.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We wasted not time getting dressed and after breakfast we ventured out for a walk across the bay. This beach is called Lightouse Beach for obvious reasons and it was one of the buesiest beaches around.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXncxCpjIrhsX7A28rwAtRfqfRg5iNNBPpfU3tjmSs9YeDaWsCYhvshSY3qqE5sibpJzYxb8rG1jRH-OIhKEzyJtN85JhqjeEEIHWVHZzfTlywAxkV_7LiInYfyD14xuh9TbTldvjN5brFArppfeOjpziCNmJt9hCLSkdMi-NHU7rYDckS_I5qr8OLJo/s3088/IMG_1444.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXncxCpjIrhsX7A28rwAtRfqfRg5iNNBPpfU3tjmSs9YeDaWsCYhvshSY3qqE5sibpJzYxb8rG1jRH-OIhKEzyJtN85JhqjeEEIHWVHZzfTlywAxkV_7LiInYfyD14xuh9TbTldvjN5brFArppfeOjpziCNmJt9hCLSkdMi-NHU7rYDckS_I5qr8OLJo/w300-h400/IMG_1444.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It didn't take long to get the bikini out as the temperature was nudging 36 C!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSWK9t8iUnNSt-SquuxQOuH1SJg3Z4uYX2N7CcmSi7103iPRM_00WfxWgCCG4AskvcpzzY2jufbT4KZqt-dx1Ob0I9pFayvqmdGVos0l1TJtItGtPnuDGdjMpDO4y4CVanY0sdtkCk5wXN90yGgrdyVecqtZ2txW9rocaEjVMoy1i8h6flDoPle7bMt8/s2048/IMG_1478.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSWK9t8iUnNSt-SquuxQOuH1SJg3Z4uYX2N7CcmSi7103iPRM_00WfxWgCCG4AskvcpzzY2jufbT4KZqt-dx1Ob0I9pFayvqmdGVos0l1TJtItGtPnuDGdjMpDO4y4CVanY0sdtkCk5wXN90yGgrdyVecqtZ2txW9rocaEjVMoy1i8h6flDoPle7bMt8/w300-h400/IMG_1478.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We spent the first day exploring with a few pit stops for refreshments.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QE0j-yd-Q30d4K98_3_narssug8NCAduIxNxPpKAgUh_li9bIcJ0t8Djz2896EUSbmCv6aYLbEfT0Js63DcuTguTtv566dA4OMTDpCYZvGGf6iiHqmgdWu4TFfmdo7zXf49NcKvp6qn-dCc7hcrMQWdMSSKDWcDuIoUcL29-z-DrHb-hka2lCAQ31jQ/s4032/IMG_1475.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_QE0j-yd-Q30d4K98_3_narssug8NCAduIxNxPpKAgUh_li9bIcJ0t8Djz2896EUSbmCv6aYLbEfT0Js63DcuTguTtv566dA4OMTDpCYZvGGf6iiHqmgdWu4TFfmdo7zXf49NcKvp6qn-dCc7hcrMQWdMSSKDWcDuIoUcL29-z-DrHb-hka2lCAQ31jQ/w300-h400/IMG_1475.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We watched the sunset from the bar of our hotel.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF47ikdYOsvSun2WTlyalUv9HLn_oEwye8XfhIysCaqmEhSPSjCNFsB_qxi97Vk4HicnGDA1UGv5DQ96bIS8uOJJCI5wgnygollfjKMfJN4x6JA3F1wBRd7fH238BdAsaQEtJ-oKdq_PkYrZkJgHWwkGNeC2pxdaM9K9zwYD_VWxfQL4nIm0BLo1w2XYc/s4032/IMG_1507.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF47ikdYOsvSun2WTlyalUv9HLn_oEwye8XfhIysCaqmEhSPSjCNFsB_qxi97Vk4HicnGDA1UGv5DQ96bIS8uOJJCI5wgnygollfjKMfJN4x6JA3F1wBRd7fH238BdAsaQEtJ-oKdq_PkYrZkJgHWwkGNeC2pxdaM9K9zwYD_VWxfQL4nIm0BLo1w2XYc/w300-h400/IMG_1507.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Don't you just love those first 24 hours when your holiday stretches ahead and there is nothig to do for the next 14 days but relax,explore and chill. More of that in later posts.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">For my first meal out I wore:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Skirt - Monsoon</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sandals - Zara</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Bag - a beach in Marbella many moons ago.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Top - crocheted by me.</span></p>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-5854236949353214782023-09-26T16:46:00.000+00:002023-09-26T16:46:28.026+00:00Bargasms<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLxQoAqqI_eMOxpkUPycFGSJYFc-FF7DMRaJ8mhimOQBxMkQVXC2hwGxl7b0_KiIIihU9mE4OpDD1gQuJBcyxiodaZymcMp9uuX2z7i14HZlifV4bLxtQPrf4kpxKnDclbDoKIEIYX-1isqYt3zsPDTg5fzMfotfVlpC2Ne2YBIY29qJiY75fKRtJ2vtY/s3088/IMG_3206.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLxQoAqqI_eMOxpkUPycFGSJYFc-FF7DMRaJ8mhimOQBxMkQVXC2hwGxl7b0_KiIIihU9mE4OpDD1gQuJBcyxiodaZymcMp9uuX2z7i14HZlifV4bLxtQPrf4kpxKnDclbDoKIEIYX-1isqYt3zsPDTg5fzMfotfVlpC2Ne2YBIY29qJiY75fKRtJ2vtY/w300-h400/IMG_3206.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">I have used the phrase Bargasm before as it was a phrase coined by my friend who referred to finding bargains that were as good as you know what!</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Before I went on holiday to Portugal in early September I went for a forage through my local charity shops and was so thrilled with my Bargasm Bonanza.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">These shorts were 50p and the lace blouse just a few pounds.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7J5VcP7GUI7XuMIhowOvQSeK5cn3VRq0GXsTlv5uf1Pgyw6j5i-ezAIgKZ9sr1LlJNDkuH7sIftIF9uq4FoqEMIsLb8jF7WEmkg0q0iAnMHEIevX83Bl4eND_EQKjRjdtsITjXaQROz33-xoKffVTXv_zi2Ua4STDovaWqPipYJmbCIzTH-VmH2u3RNg/s1024/IMG_3573.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7J5VcP7GUI7XuMIhowOvQSeK5cn3VRq0GXsTlv5uf1Pgyw6j5i-ezAIgKZ9sr1LlJNDkuH7sIftIF9uq4FoqEMIsLb8jF7WEmkg0q0iAnMHEIevX83Bl4eND_EQKjRjdtsITjXaQROz33-xoKffVTXv_zi2Ua4STDovaWqPipYJmbCIzTH-VmH2u3RNg/s320/IMG_3573.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">There we a lot of Zara stuff in and I snapped up this satin shirt which looked amazing with the BNWT Karen Millen skirt that is making even me (who hates the cooler months) look forward to the cooler days ahead.</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-srR261s_XyVw7BNpMz6EOu91bIAWq2XT3Pl-XQqOmExH63uUMwUJQt7dRF40kX2eriQ2Q01wPjEBiy5HAZTuxoGvHyN1Y19HBjwkkOPQwyPiJmk_OYNJaETw3sbI1u3CZ4tq2KBi05pRdc4KIPbtO2WR6sBECG3WvAALFC6YxSYJaxrRsaMA2F2iBMs/s3088/IMG_3248.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-srR261s_XyVw7BNpMz6EOu91bIAWq2XT3Pl-XQqOmExH63uUMwUJQt7dRF40kX2eriQ2Q01wPjEBiy5HAZTuxoGvHyN1Y19HBjwkkOPQwyPiJmk_OYNJaETw3sbI1u3CZ4tq2KBi05pRdc4KIPbtO2WR6sBECG3WvAALFC6YxSYJaxrRsaMA2F2iBMs/s320/IMG_3248.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Sadly, I had to take thr trousers back as they were two sizes too big although they lookpretty good in the photo!</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhay1GZivHrRkM1raHZkz-kOP2LRLtXznkFwNksFviNbZK8SF5iExvSN5Es0pr4t0UDwHkuDhMMiWzC4dCT02WsM4tYaPEa8LPaPgmbvf2dUoJlMhIPG62V9DLD6VEd53LRFzhX8CUjnr8tJ41GXVF1MGD2AwwX3rn5j4_M21Xd1rQ1J1JpzwCaxEfAmXY/s3088/IMG_3267.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhay1GZivHrRkM1raHZkz-kOP2LRLtXznkFwNksFviNbZK8SF5iExvSN5Es0pr4t0UDwHkuDhMMiWzC4dCT02WsM4tYaPEa8LPaPgmbvf2dUoJlMhIPG62V9DLD6VEd53LRFzhX8CUjnr8tJ41GXVF1MGD2AwwX3rn5j4_M21Xd1rQ1J1JpzwCaxEfAmXY/s320/IMG_3267.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> I was especially thrilled with this short coat that I know I will get lots of wear from which came in at uner £1!</div></span><p></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5TEUyKuG34E1RuRWuunsXblr0jU5BYKi0zD4qT2eZGFkrx7ARPZu0SJP18PrQtuu2HoDpOSg0OybDKjyYdknX45GvL4lxhIn9R1ayGZJydTVBhXFc5qswCDFrKJLPC6MdcFppf23Lf6jIsob2pRSaBM8VKQ29owETJaAlYmCKSY_MJClLxw6je7SuzQ/s4032/IMG_3293.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5TEUyKuG34E1RuRWuunsXblr0jU5BYKi0zD4qT2eZGFkrx7ARPZu0SJP18PrQtuu2HoDpOSg0OybDKjyYdknX45GvL4lxhIn9R1ayGZJydTVBhXFc5qswCDFrKJLPC6MdcFppf23Lf6jIsob2pRSaBM8VKQ29owETJaAlYmCKSY_MJClLxw6je7SuzQ/s320/IMG_3293.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Love a flat lay!</div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRp-bfaWDxbRQuQtbbeoJzo4UJ0qlYINEPviLU-pJyC2Of1fndY7sXiA3UoSlsPZ9CjZse6Z9XcNFkRfnAUElf-Z8QZANrJRcqX8RvRsJrIVDt24gZlz1p6ifIYgKltLHNZUHJ5Ov4jxQrAg27qxqnWBFzJ7NaVupOWc42S8WnokTFQc-8GVqk3exy8AY/s4032/IMG_3290.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRp-bfaWDxbRQuQtbbeoJzo4UJ0qlYINEPviLU-pJyC2Of1fndY7sXiA3UoSlsPZ9CjZse6Z9XcNFkRfnAUElf-Z8QZANrJRcqX8RvRsJrIVDt24gZlz1p6ifIYgKltLHNZUHJ5Ov4jxQrAg27qxqnWBFzJ7NaVupOWc42S8WnokTFQc-8GVqk3exy8AY/s320/IMG_3290.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">The coat has a lovely lining.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hB3ZNNyFAEQI0WcupuDTezAxbeBwtaToLCgPAmg5n9MedH4Zq7tw-l1-mE3MNYqk9HupGHxHRO6N9qgi6kmBh5cI16eLDSI_6SPtg2IjYkoYnBzkG1npQjVfcF7z3fYGc5NEqF19dNTzkAaIgznkMZG10xM-X2mg7dOm-p8OW10dkuX-FfaSlRbX1w4/s3088/IMG_3284%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5hB3ZNNyFAEQI0WcupuDTezAxbeBwtaToLCgPAmg5n9MedH4Zq7tw-l1-mE3MNYqk9HupGHxHRO6N9qgi6kmBh5cI16eLDSI_6SPtg2IjYkoYnBzkG1npQjVfcF7z3fYGc5NEqF19dNTzkAaIgznkMZG10xM-X2mg7dOm-p8OW10dkuX-FfaSlRbX1w4/s320/IMG_3284%20(1).jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I think the piece I will get the most wear out of is this Fat Face denim skirt.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Its a reminder of the skirt I loved and lost <a href="https://thesmallfabricofmylife.blogspot.com/2010/04/animal-instinct.html">here.</a> A bit darker and a bit longer but it has pockets which is the most important.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VNBFzIdcPzf_Ir6GY1Dz6M02nX_83L_-meL2SIit_5vbKXwldu2aoG0ijTSeotGol273oXVs2B6HVeldcoHfxBmJKymEDbOuYG_4fF71bhbcEQ4DvS4vr-5UAUpuy8gVdygSwRd0BYJJirVb7-1YfCZHW4gasc7KSU8T01oe4bNfovDyyZVZVjTDWEU/s3088/IMG_3216.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-VNBFzIdcPzf_Ir6GY1Dz6M02nX_83L_-meL2SIit_5vbKXwldu2aoG0ijTSeotGol273oXVs2B6HVeldcoHfxBmJKymEDbOuYG_4fF71bhbcEQ4DvS4vr-5UAUpuy8gVdygSwRd0BYJJirVb7-1YfCZHW4gasc7KSU8T01oe4bNfovDyyZVZVjTDWEU/s320/IMG_3216.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENmU4zXtu3Ab0xmIBX7TdisDjfz914nOVuJ-Th2ig6LqPokHgOqL-VTeMEtJcpyiihRh1GUa8gMRMLHy1Bp10Ku__ngMO3-ymzoJCW0FNKtSURtBpwbNIwyeo_NbdVEN1INfnaYdwOWfYQYG1492qiBvJ_RqKySZ-wB2GikhXiPnMHrzGtsuBbx_nKAE/s3088/IMG_3267.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENmU4zXtu3Ab0xmIBX7TdisDjfz914nOVuJ-Th2ig6LqPokHgOqL-VTeMEtJcpyiihRh1GUa8gMRMLHy1Bp10Ku__ngMO3-ymzoJCW0FNKtSURtBpwbNIwyeo_NbdVEN1INfnaYdwOWfYQYG1492qiBvJ_RqKySZ-wB2GikhXiPnMHrzGtsuBbx_nKAE/s320/IMG_3267.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Still only managing a post a month but at least I am consistent. Happy Secondhand September.</div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijpzG8j36m_Duy4428Aavo13xXrdyB-nA74gK2z1mkxYvVfO9kuFCN4hZz_ug4RlZoCt1_wsrlSb2cH3bDyXXF2PK5IOMrtbCmaC45cL41BUROHevUr7dTb0ci1gSd48swgbmR6qcUDdqPw2Eerqg4N-Ldz6sOMalTs86fnLhJBbEDtNx-CsGZmpk_osc/s3088/IMG_3255.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijpzG8j36m_Duy4428Aavo13xXrdyB-nA74gK2z1mkxYvVfO9kuFCN4hZz_ug4RlZoCt1_wsrlSb2cH3bDyXXF2PK5IOMrtbCmaC45cL41BUROHevUr7dTb0ci1gSd48swgbmR6qcUDdqPw2Eerqg4N-Ldz6sOMalTs86fnLhJBbEDtNx-CsGZmpk_osc/s320/IMG_3255.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-87925340104182131692023-08-14T11:47:00.001+00:002023-08-14T11:47:31.696+00:00Flowers, Fashion, Family and Frocks<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_BJRbouiWg-5O8t2wjfy-nYeleQ5YSwbsZbP1PSPLg8X299u5sRQQI-ZpiuIuOCn1ok-TlxGZKHSMJTyqeBSSHPjvSmWxIAdDIaTWgghQI5PGYp21ZJca1A0iFUhJ6oQTiX_NwUlkOzUFba5I62Gz1Wg4pzXl3_HJxzReDrBwdVfm0b5OetmrQClcIc/s2781/IMG_1927.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2781" data-original-width="1876" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_BJRbouiWg-5O8t2wjfy-nYeleQ5YSwbsZbP1PSPLg8X299u5sRQQI-ZpiuIuOCn1ok-TlxGZKHSMJTyqeBSSHPjvSmWxIAdDIaTWgghQI5PGYp21ZJca1A0iFUhJ6oQTiX_NwUlkOzUFba5I62Gz1Wg4pzXl3_HJxzReDrBwdVfm0b5OetmrQClcIc/w270-h400/IMG_1927.jpeg" width="270" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">It's been another while.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">July just flew by in a frantic flurry of flowers, fashion, family and frocks.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Let's start with the flowers.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0muViJmBTmD9L8FmoRFaJ91CukMvOh9Tk41A6mnTM16HCweXsapsaS7MhkuDWrWHyKkycSZl07hWeJmNtEtGINklwcN0-8G3k0SmQMLjzV_Co0IGRifG2jpbNJoVjuLg2ci3nZTr48DstAQTo4M7sjuKtYoswcZElnEpTsV76x6k1O9YcH2V_SpqmEA/s3088/IMG_1948%20-%20Copy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0muViJmBTmD9L8FmoRFaJ91CukMvOh9Tk41A6mnTM16HCweXsapsaS7MhkuDWrWHyKkycSZl07hWeJmNtEtGINklwcN0-8G3k0SmQMLjzV_Co0IGRifG2jpbNJoVjuLg2ci3nZTr48DstAQTo4M7sjuKtYoswcZElnEpTsV76x6k1O9YcH2V_SpqmEA/w300-h400/IMG_1948%20-%20Copy.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">This year I decided to grow some flowers from seed.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I had never done it before but was inspired by <a href="https://thefloralproject.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Floral Project </a>to sow and grow.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I ordered some seeds and the day my son, Joe moved out (sob, sob) in March my first seedling germinated</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8vg2JZuHaCo7fmc1E_6U1cQ1dTyExDQL3QWmc33KrbhQteA11HsEpSyQ5E0QjxAC0jx1e085ukUKAEDtvrciaBXDsSXwrATm3CTcfEyTEOa1UR31lQlaiQRaMHzdBofUzCRxxvGDbuGP6rayKFh2QTwycFveQAYNk_8Ra5Lgyn5DS4djVEWg1Z0j6p0/s4032/IMG_2097%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8vg2JZuHaCo7fmc1E_6U1cQ1dTyExDQL3QWmc33KrbhQteA11HsEpSyQ5E0QjxAC0jx1e085ukUKAEDtvrciaBXDsSXwrATm3CTcfEyTEOa1UR31lQlaiQRaMHzdBofUzCRxxvGDbuGP6rayKFh2QTwycFveQAYNk_8Ra5Lgyn5DS4djVEWg1Z0j6p0/w300-h400/IMG_2097%20(1).jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I have been amazed by the abundance of flowers including Cosmos, Lavatera, Dahlia, Delphinium, Scabiosa, Cerinthe, Erigeron, Cammomile, Stock, Poppies, Calendula, Gypsophelia and many more.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvVS4BJhD7YG2MYDnzmMzGv4Ii2c4Sdmn8g0IXhyUeu7bJCxRBCa_lVXu-LIX4zHGLN9Kjf-gEaH_jQhAiUbVSSSt09AQDsDLEdqEWDemP3ElCHSoCdCriCeMdKaM4ZaRLdGDJHVfT1xD5HJ7H7YaM7C3kYpc6erAVqGXynnUeD7B7u5MiG9nDXIiYxtA/s3088/IMG_0678.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvVS4BJhD7YG2MYDnzmMzGv4Ii2c4Sdmn8g0IXhyUeu7bJCxRBCa_lVXu-LIX4zHGLN9Kjf-gEaH_jQhAiUbVSSSt09AQDsDLEdqEWDemP3ElCHSoCdCriCeMdKaM4ZaRLdGDJHVfT1xD5HJ7H7YaM7C3kYpc6erAVqGXynnUeD7B7u5MiG9nDXIiYxtA/w300-h400/IMG_0678.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I have started a new list for next year!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Now onto Fashion.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">July was the month of the pop up shop.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">My sons, Joe and Ben set up Luxe Collective, a pre-loved designer fashion business and they have grown from strength to strength since starting in our spare bedroom.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">They now employ over 20 people and are about to move out to their third new building.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpyZdouRwUPyTpr2SzhfhF89gBFHARMgIeR-MceLYnaW_zDy1Fh_wUo9iVzOJirRn0jvPddh7ygPb7AVfTLw-Z7DqfXaEv6j6WjoceVOCd-ERKuFXhVaDuriIhJR7nxvUbOw9krzcux1lv0NboKkElwM9cp-loRgIAR3MB24Njx8GnBzW787p8OSaZIY/s1106/IMG_1230.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="783" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicpyZdouRwUPyTpr2SzhfhF89gBFHARMgIeR-MceLYnaW_zDy1Fh_wUo9iVzOJirRn0jvPddh7ygPb7AVfTLw-Z7DqfXaEv6j6WjoceVOCd-ERKuFXhVaDuriIhJR7nxvUbOw9krzcux1lv0NboKkElwM9cp-loRgIAR3MB24Njx8GnBzW787p8OSaZIY/w454-h640/IMG_1230.jpeg" width="454" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">They decided that this July they would set up a pop up shop in London next door to Louis Vuitton in Bank.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">They have a big social media following - 1.4 mi on Tiktok alone.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">But even they were blown away by the queues on the opening day.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_DIsvkFQwmzqRJT0wcTxDVzkSTTjzjtCK2Dm23sXYZxKuDaCQZ0HcIaEiWWKu3086Y2SsJVRfLTy5VBnTG8m4ErCK3xqx7jEt3qOo7a0gUZADf_YNsi8lkH-Mu3PhNb66ThDafZbwHX1ox7tG-2LqKZDCZO82hILv87oSWiMdky3j-mIgPMCyjUtdE0/s1024/4563512b-d334-4e34-82a8-65e48f8a2998.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_DIsvkFQwmzqRJT0wcTxDVzkSTTjzjtCK2Dm23sXYZxKuDaCQZ0HcIaEiWWKu3086Y2SsJVRfLTy5VBnTG8m4ErCK3xqx7jEt3qOo7a0gUZADf_YNsi8lkH-Mu3PhNb66ThDafZbwHX1ox7tG-2LqKZDCZO82hILv87oSWiMdky3j-mIgPMCyjUtdE0/w480-h640/4563512b-d334-4e34-82a8-65e48f8a2998.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I went down to London for a meeting in early July and went to see the shop before it opened.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZo7NftEdFjWZHWLOkECSXIMZ_KvfFM43iFL26Juhk-9n6M09Qo3GeYojXNUH4q6AVBI6s_BPHtAJVjg5XjBio8q-c9bteJkO7lxXPPaVpAw-zndViAhEgWbaewPz3C89aQAZxQdfR99WJn4-YOD5C-HqRDHnY3lN8C6WE7h7u8vh4_7rL58thNW5sNA4/s4032/IMG_1132.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZo7NftEdFjWZHWLOkECSXIMZ_KvfFM43iFL26Juhk-9n6M09Qo3GeYojXNUH4q6AVBI6s_BPHtAJVjg5XjBio8q-c9bteJkO7lxXPPaVpAw-zndViAhEgWbaewPz3C89aQAZxQdfR99WJn4-YOD5C-HqRDHnY3lN8C6WE7h7u8vh4_7rL58thNW5sNA4/w480-h640/IMG_1132.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">And last weekend my husband and I travelled down to see the shop just before it closed. We met up with our London based friends, Sara and Niall who we last saw in Gran Canaria in February and had a lovely weekend.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYvckBEEJ-ZDvO_mBzx6aYq7SkFRd8dmwYj3wmqnvjfnxDG553yI1uKuL5PE8Bpk-QU55xR2AfoMF9ing7JQRT9H7waM1lBD2v8Vt6lSz-Ig2qC1Ai6FEf3PsKsV5SoQRcBlr3yZWTPjGoU1nkMqqTBquXt3Rj8VuERGz2D1GAPba5urgmIRflW96QGc/s4032/IMG_6004.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCYvckBEEJ-ZDvO_mBzx6aYq7SkFRd8dmwYj3wmqnvjfnxDG553yI1uKuL5PE8Bpk-QU55xR2AfoMF9ing7JQRT9H7waM1lBD2v8Vt6lSz-Ig2qC1Ai6FEf3PsKsV5SoQRcBlr3yZWTPjGoU1nkMqqTBquXt3Rj8VuERGz2D1GAPba5urgmIRflW96QGc/w480-h640/IMG_6004.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">And family!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Although it was Heidi's birthday in June, her party fell on the first Saturday in July which was a lovely sunny afternoon in the garden where her parents had organised for a special visit from some furry friends.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqM7Ii-WubkWoWni1JfFFwsdKICg_easaKYDOl063dyBo8DXD0MziXLXoASR1kvhM-cf_pGdm6PzarYfHT4GCLlrWl3eyZVbQBnNO-w-7I5QqXrihBekKGjqnUwHbRIpWNCBkFjRAGwgLgzmt6NPlZhOr2EWlj0WaS6LfZ2n_HgvJJMj_RJs_2pRRahlw/s2048/95faac28-909e-4a0a-bb44-f615781cfab2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqM7Ii-WubkWoWni1JfFFwsdKICg_easaKYDOl063dyBo8DXD0MziXLXoASR1kvhM-cf_pGdm6PzarYfHT4GCLlrWl3eyZVbQBnNO-w-7I5QqXrihBekKGjqnUwHbRIpWNCBkFjRAGwgLgzmt6NPlZhOr2EWlj0WaS6LfZ2n_HgvJJMj_RJs_2pRRahlw/w300-h400/95faac28-909e-4a0a-bb44-f615781cfab2.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Mason and Heidi are growing so fast, I ca hardly keep up.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6jvyIBbYHzrqmBc5CNpgM00juvwCjQMbRZuFDtbV8pb9dY2IQdFIaKi0fbDGBpVj6MJRdP89LFRlFcunB0YBPNt_qsMzfPIG63uaC69AgIYsZ6veDehX99eef1-U9RPFS1w3c56_-r0B-JigT4X7FKyvrkKPbYjz7GDn8K8ZpW0NQfjhK2MACpEztuxg/s1600/b88ad4aa-19d7-454f-a4b1-522b481fb3ea.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6jvyIBbYHzrqmBc5CNpgM00juvwCjQMbRZuFDtbV8pb9dY2IQdFIaKi0fbDGBpVj6MJRdP89LFRlFcunB0YBPNt_qsMzfPIG63uaC69AgIYsZ6veDehX99eef1-U9RPFS1w3c56_-r0B-JigT4X7FKyvrkKPbYjz7GDn8K8ZpW0NQfjhK2MACpEztuxg/s320/b88ad4aa-19d7-454f-a4b1-522b481fb3ea.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbrLAxEKsd6dVSjvtCCPpiTuilcDW1C7BhBalE92LYpKPOSsfJNwAl0xMydOfJjpobGnxtRPmXuwtO2SC4IYV3_TIW9Se-rw8GKOOYV4-zgMWjgnqwJsBs3Wtjjha2LqPTl9sPXqi6uzNLKmmYMRiMDFrsV0O4dJv6ufy7nmD7vdozU5GcIMEK2jKTQ4o/s2048/d42e518f-c5ca-4a58-af44-bd336aefd19d.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbrLAxEKsd6dVSjvtCCPpiTuilcDW1C7BhBalE92LYpKPOSsfJNwAl0xMydOfJjpobGnxtRPmXuwtO2SC4IYV3_TIW9Se-rw8GKOOYV4-zgMWjgnqwJsBs3Wtjjha2LqPTl9sPXqi6uzNLKmmYMRiMDFrsV0O4dJv6ufy7nmD7vdozU5GcIMEK2jKTQ4o/s320/d42e518f-c5ca-4a58-af44-bd336aefd19d.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">In fact I was struck with a photo of Briony holding Mason which reminded me of a photo of me holding her wearing a very similar skirt in 1999.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDAJw_QivGfcKRdk62fUFUioOQFvm3zcHLi74XQV7jMJf-BPleVJyzXixQ_bohZVTkEyVBN3FRyvx5wvXGoqFs5uxm52ygYSPMJByWYMe0xPH7dCS71osVd0Dr2rg-7bnja06W7rGf1oQp2VsTXBX9twWkWl_aapxoyoKKVsXPlMZ322fScs_f8oSCBak/s1600/590641D0-F8BA-435C-8795-7641565089EE%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDAJw_QivGfcKRdk62fUFUioOQFvm3zcHLi74XQV7jMJf-BPleVJyzXixQ_bohZVTkEyVBN3FRyvx5wvXGoqFs5uxm52ygYSPMJByWYMe0xPH7dCS71osVd0Dr2rg-7bnja06W7rGf1oQp2VsTXBX9twWkWl_aapxoyoKKVsXPlMZ322fScs_f8oSCBak/s320/590641D0-F8BA-435C-8795-7641565089EE%20(1).jpeg" width="256" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Finally, the frocks.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I love the opportunity to wear frocks in summer and here are my favourites this year to finish.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXhVhQ0cBpZnoXXU_kHsRiFYkHW0VwlnixNViQkNxFSPyBuXewf3rEKKBqkAE5xjE3gdKAtQ_hcoizHuOYgIwvDFE0zy_p5KA6Igi45H0GdYJD7agFRvj6BO2DGBKJB54edPBHPp5IvtPurSw_QeK7AOdJjVn5gOU4UZQQjStymvKWlZWeS5FVeMkRto/s1800/A6635C5A-32E1-4AE0-831F-B9ECB5C59637.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; 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font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDEjzrzOA1mlfG8t0ywcUDHPl2CiS9LYko1F6GsmKwTdtw6y24aTGBCBARqGXe6jcPHh5m8v4F8FxW788hgxOd6TVU8wHHDyg9lf0AoxhQM1JPGEMUzSKhRQYxm144sJ9ZrJDb2k874VfOJDddT5ehBCMrXM9oXeOShsriI6AQ46fxYsW2GeKXtQX2Udo/s3088/IMG_1886.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDEjzrzOA1mlfG8t0ywcUDHPl2CiS9LYko1F6GsmKwTdtw6y24aTGBCBARqGXe6jcPHh5m8v4F8FxW788hgxOd6TVU8wHHDyg9lf0AoxhQM1JPGEMUzSKhRQYxm144sJ9ZrJDb2k874VfOJDddT5ehBCMrXM9oXeOShsriI6AQ46fxYsW2GeKXtQX2Udo/s320/IMG_1886.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQoVH1a5KXm9Qz1_aRLVYgwhOjxsm8Avw6TATPP1vyPM8IlwN12PK6QdOKnf9VfMRcfYXZhH6Ada7HOhKQBD_GxZMG_gK5ZwX_KLD2gxh7f7KgcUud3Uekez0riZJloyHMUshlbjE9Aei_lzjnXn_J7fFFxEK_iCoGk9ea1_XaXu9lBNDllxRU5jDSNk/s1800/0695AA6A-2823-4F08-8283-AB8CE939721B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZQoVH1a5KXm9Qz1_aRLVYgwhOjxsm8Avw6TATPP1vyPM8IlwN12PK6QdOKnf9VfMRcfYXZhH6Ada7HOhKQBD_GxZMG_gK5ZwX_KLD2gxh7f7KgcUud3Uekez0riZJloyHMUshlbjE9Aei_lzjnXn_J7fFFxEK_iCoGk9ea1_XaXu9lBNDllxRU5jDSNk/w320-h400/0695AA6A-2823-4F08-8283-AB8CE939721B.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">How did it get to the end of June without posting for a few months?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And how did I used to post every day?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Life has been more than a little busy with a full-time business teaching yoga, two grandchildren, an allotment and the usual life admin.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And today Heidi Rose is two years old.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBgZJdoU80mC0RR-O2GrOxcz_LyvIk-VOE0yqrzhVU9v7rJf9HeUlpDea6UNJQL7AenrqDYqZkCa1_rFNOIRz72vjiFUw0jjuvoFXlG6HpSoRNchihIfYmw40hl98829NVF0CrcMNCQ7oQvXbiiz40lp75h5RE1oC82ASCiUM9jmk0qVb_9uKhSDIuh74/s4032/IMG_9989.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBgZJdoU80mC0RR-O2GrOxcz_LyvIk-VOE0yqrzhVU9v7rJf9HeUlpDea6UNJQL7AenrqDYqZkCa1_rFNOIRz72vjiFUw0jjuvoFXlG6HpSoRNchihIfYmw40hl98829NVF0CrcMNCQ7oQvXbiiz40lp75h5RE1oC82ASCiUM9jmk0qVb_9uKhSDIuh74/w300-h400/IMG_9989.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My little allotment buddy is a walking, talking, bundle of energy and I have loved every minute watching her grow.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDTKtQyoqTFjgj86iPiwpIbIDYWZtxfuTzS3I4HF0CY0OWf8XUi-MUMOd35nEMdV-Y9zRHqbr-ofaURbIqoeMR6F9pOAZvDY84Zs87-abIjit4oFPKn1GIP-QlLMB4NHs9yvjYKoAbYc5CyL-ZSE93ZI86SjUUC98R7arG4JgoElwJudlolq1HwVEXEA/s4032/IMG_0306.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDTKtQyoqTFjgj86iPiwpIbIDYWZtxfuTzS3I4HF0CY0OWf8XUi-MUMOd35nEMdV-Y9zRHqbr-ofaURbIqoeMR6F9pOAZvDY84Zs87-abIjit4oFPKn1GIP-QlLMB4NHs9yvjYKoAbYc5CyL-ZSE93ZI86SjUUC98R7arG4JgoElwJudlolq1HwVEXEA/s320/IMG_0306.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Her little cousin is not far behind, alhtough he loves dismantling my gardening efforts.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGEWfMn0FMOm2cxnIL1xgZiVuUSOS0SzL8IvbBjnuZcijBHXv0mnfBUW4RGbs2wZe5W7WmrXen1xrAASyvh5sO8-PZBPSXYb9FsdOu3hAJwPS69U6UZd9L8WEwiKpq5DVKfprGvrxwXouuYr0HWbKYN29ebQDOlZrkNVcrwdh0NcJ5Keo5Bj2ixLfGke8/s1800/D25DCD2E-AEA2-4CEC-B995-5005246C4294.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGEWfMn0FMOm2cxnIL1xgZiVuUSOS0SzL8IvbBjnuZcijBHXv0mnfBUW4RGbs2wZe5W7WmrXen1xrAASyvh5sO8-PZBPSXYb9FsdOu3hAJwPS69U6UZd9L8WEwiKpq5DVKfprGvrxwXouuYr0HWbKYN29ebQDOlZrkNVcrwdh0NcJ5Keo5Bj2ixLfGke8/w320-h400/D25DCD2E-AEA2-4CEC-B995-5005246C4294.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">ON the rare occasion when I am not wearing dungarees or yoga pants I do still enjoy dressing up, especially wearing my Vinted buys like this gingham skirt and crochet top.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD807DPDWDind73Q1TbwLZwf-7aPTXm9S1wI7WU1PejOUgbqQrnZgouj4TZwSVBKNAmOiuaMTeeZdk2btVupA2d5Smj4QD32l_WAEuOt4iBza5HDqVkVQqHBlBol5beKGDyBiWKsKEke1bPMXy9vZ1rsh7dPsj2IVArtlyvDQmx34l0CSkCSgTQ49Trfk/s4032/IMG_0100.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD807DPDWDind73Q1TbwLZwf-7aPTXm9S1wI7WU1PejOUgbqQrnZgouj4TZwSVBKNAmOiuaMTeeZdk2btVupA2d5Smj4QD32l_WAEuOt4iBza5HDqVkVQqHBlBol5beKGDyBiWKsKEke1bPMXy9vZ1rsh7dPsj2IVArtlyvDQmx34l0CSkCSgTQ49Trfk/w300-h400/IMG_0100.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And if I do get a spare five minutes you will find me in the garden, reading about gardening.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Hope to see you soon,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Jane X</span></div><p></p>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-21270675343809471822023-04-14T16:51:00.001+00:002023-04-14T16:51:00.169+00:00Reunited (And it feel so good)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJlsgtCSVeo8UoHoxxkq9iX9TL1Sl-VuGQQi7uWXh_-dDSH-ldMqCkdj7leIuTqHqtrLvsOgBbfcUd-js35OE8AD8OlQKD4ZuyHP6mxKzm8bzP1nCpPdrwOVEkgU-xF3nLnsfT20uULXIJsjoyc9UwxjBFmogsIkk8_lf91s6Sc_2wRma5slI6Kmd/w400-h400/IMG_2876.JPG" width="400" /></span></div><p style="text-align: right;"></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;">It's the last day and I am feeling blue.</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I am not sure what to wear but thanks to this Zara Co-Ord that I bought from Vinted last year I have all bases covered.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Today we are meeting up with our very good friends, Sara and Niall who by complete coincidence are in Gran Canaria at the same time as us.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">They are staying in a nearby resort so we catch the local bus to meet up.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieMwzfhooIeSJEhNyKzbRBjDK_mCMvg9IMHjE4OKW3ROXzvd1X98oNsnHxmFJlUVKxaXySIQ--P5T6hjngiaoyJaGCleVnc4ujsLT-RA7jxKiZx1HaHrDncMfkE6RjAG6eqdx9EiSzDzKRgJU2ybzWS1ab-bHldyfKGW4VcrB0vyLCaE6kbjY-DEMr/s4032/IMG_2838.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieMwzfhooIeSJEhNyKzbRBjDK_mCMvg9IMHjE4OKW3ROXzvd1X98oNsnHxmFJlUVKxaXySIQ--P5T6hjngiaoyJaGCleVnc4ujsLT-RA7jxKiZx1HaHrDncMfkE6RjAG6eqdx9EiSzDzKRgJU2ybzWS1ab-bHldyfKGW4VcrB0vyLCaE6kbjY-DEMr/w400-h300/IMG_2838.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Saran and Niall live in Surrey but we met on<a href="http://workthatwardrobe.blogspot.com/2008/08/back-in-blighty.html" target="_blank"> this holiday </a> in 2008 when our son and their daughter had a holiday romance.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">We both had four children of similar ages and despite living in Surrey they were all Liverpool fans.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Over the years we met up every summer on Eurocamp sites and as the children have grown older we have remained friends vsiting each other's homes almost every year.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">In 2019 we enjoyed a week in Lanzarote together and last year we went down to their son's wedding in the Sout Downs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">They are such fun and we just pick upwhere we left off whenver we meet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://workthatwardrobe.blogspot.com/2008/08/back-in-blighty.htmlhttps://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBP343SYnnEjZHcxKTzarDvnS3oGWCh9yDojkFLW4nRy3tqLMTlaqL7_MmlGZCNDGtoqAMGdEzz2PbOrCyhXHlPdb0q7GUtmTm_wZHMlj9WLyMXVcLqBaIQwl3B1X23RDL6QwDumA6q01qba_ZW3oBgOQU7GJMbujLXVpXdo6ogoQenTYkZfblDQl9/s960/IMG_2873.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBP343SYnnEjZHcxKTzarDvnS3oGWCh9yDojkFLW4nRy3tqLMTlaqL7_MmlGZCNDGtoqAMGdEzz2PbOrCyhXHlPdb0q7GUtmTm_wZHMlj9WLyMXVcLqBaIQwl3B1X23RDL6QwDumA6q01qba_ZW3oBgOQU7GJMbujLXVpXdo6ogoQenTYkZfblDQl9/w300-h400/IMG_2873.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">It was a beautiful day to catch up and enjoy the sunshine.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDNLW98Dn0bvCn6lVDkUcKex6BnOgt3In032S1AvnKfjiH3h3k4VVjky3Lx0gptCYfx-CvU4UnJzbnnfqYGJ9atwH5vmllLTm57UBvC5eCRXMhJW8Rz3KwM7pNdEPdLPnaq1SNE3qhlNbD_HLLf73Cr1xGRVdO_c0Hy-Mkgy36vL1uJU25CN7rLDd/s2048/IMG_2874.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXDNLW98Dn0bvCn6lVDkUcKex6BnOgt3In032S1AvnKfjiH3h3k4VVjky3Lx0gptCYfx-CvU4UnJzbnnfqYGJ9atwH5vmllLTm57UBvC5eCRXMhJW8Rz3KwM7pNdEPdLPnaq1SNE3qhlNbD_HLLf73Cr1xGRVdO_c0Hy-Mkgy36vL1uJU25CN7rLDd/s320/IMG_2874.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I am sure there was talk of Liverpool's latest (woeful) performance!</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifKRs5Cz7EKCD23a3X1kBjdGgG71owuJa8iyx_kmygDEF3tjaoveaoFpSOxDxgH-RGfsqNuDujJpoKitcTKHMBVrzu7Plhov_2rulsnqpEePmlGbEPMQWzqSvOtmuUJMytVMTgNvXLtxta-WSQCOpS2M0eoJMOJujU0OvQPWcxjlxx9PTf5Mf8mCZe/s1864/IMG_2875.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1864" data-original-width="1398" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifKRs5Cz7EKCD23a3X1kBjdGgG71owuJa8iyx_kmygDEF3tjaoveaoFpSOxDxgH-RGfsqNuDujJpoKitcTKHMBVrzu7Plhov_2rulsnqpEePmlGbEPMQWzqSvOtmuUJMytVMTgNvXLtxta-WSQCOpS2M0eoJMOJujU0OvQPWcxjlxx9PTf5Mf8mCZe/s320/IMG_2875.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">And so the sun sets on our winter sun break.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">It must be time to plan another.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-40005698228439019972023-04-13T05:53:00.003+00:002023-04-13T05:53:41.351+00:00It's My Party <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMsbB8mF5TBJtpscY3WA59BogBauUoicEJ3AfpYhx20j82CMVKz-iGgzLBjvLJaA0AxwL7ejYBMJwf22_ZAEfpOllmd8nJlvxneCJoPIwbhqxkoom2B93vZwxH3cxuO60wF59c6pJHjv6foN24F0B6-VYp_nJjnrLbrNvbaP3jq7zGkbKmMJUSQrKR/s2838/IMG_2567.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2838" data-original-width="2128" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMsbB8mF5TBJtpscY3WA59BogBauUoicEJ3AfpYhx20j82CMVKz-iGgzLBjvLJaA0AxwL7ejYBMJwf22_ZAEfpOllmd8nJlvxneCJoPIwbhqxkoom2B93vZwxH3cxuO60wF59c6pJHjv6foN24F0B6-VYp_nJjnrLbrNvbaP3jq7zGkbKmMJUSQrKR/s320/IMG_2567.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Sunday. A blissfully quiet Sunday as its the only day the buildng work across from our hotel is quiet. </div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We could enjoy the views, listen to the birdsong and drink a peaceful coffee on the balcony.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">You would think it was my birthday. And actually it is.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I got the chance to wear this Nevery Fully Dressed swimsuit - a bithday gift from my mum.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsMt9Vk0Kt8oKOZdxJBRhxb5wO7A6z1jI4K0k6a1owqEjR_4fZP8K1Om2_ItCwivo4FXw0BtqqjHwbp894lA-sFrVfD-Ll0uUqCJabXaoazFzDqaDEUHeF_m4QV3RJlcug6Q1mL7VIK3QhAe9hKsUI5IAMM9-Cq2alQA2NdiIKldpugHzNX9H7tAv/s2613/IMG_2599.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2613" data-original-width="2289" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsMt9Vk0Kt8oKOZdxJBRhxb5wO7A6z1jI4K0k6a1owqEjR_4fZP8K1Om2_ItCwivo4FXw0BtqqjHwbp894lA-sFrVfD-Ll0uUqCJabXaoazFzDqaDEUHeF_m4QV3RJlcug6Q1mL7VIK3QhAe9hKsUI5IAMM9-Cq2alQA2NdiIKldpugHzNX9H7tAv/s320/IMG_2599.HEIC" width="280" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Breakfast was on the beach in Puerto Rico in the sunshine.</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_iSJofNx4mftSbg7qlbuRdWaY2Uq7-3Yc-njuefmkGg392S7ebG7LBgGEzxHtJfXPcUsrQ2zOk5S7dd8XxcyQHZ7rJdhdFs81oKL26Hjb4WoifRB6073KWtjMBQyOLsTd2NMnFpNfSjhjyePyUFw9QWgfPk6UvsZqro9FF9x4qdk4S-SldfiDAnN_/s3088/IMG_2607.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_iSJofNx4mftSbg7qlbuRdWaY2Uq7-3Yc-njuefmkGg392S7ebG7LBgGEzxHtJfXPcUsrQ2zOk5S7dd8XxcyQHZ7rJdhdFs81oKL26Hjb4WoifRB6073KWtjMBQyOLsTd2NMnFpNfSjhjyePyUFw9QWgfPk6UvsZqro9FF9x4qdk4S-SldfiDAnN_/s320/IMG_2607.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Back to the hotel and the chance to laze by the Infinity Pool with a pint of wine or too!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGPw1NP4nNA6IV9NzLzqbJXPYaUE-OxvLbxEqVtAPYIrCaUA8o5ifJOFggrCtLVjkRiMPPPHQ4Qxznx7AB9vvtvl0B43JijUo5Ef7ZGik2A3nX15bv5bHpix-c5a5V3AtEY8K9sOVjMu_mwht8G36DpohFW03r2tsWHSmwH4Fla49-6cGqGBT_be3l/s1800/43B58D10-4F0E-4F2A-BFD1-D47F8A9121CC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGPw1NP4nNA6IV9NzLzqbJXPYaUE-OxvLbxEqVtAPYIrCaUA8o5ifJOFggrCtLVjkRiMPPPHQ4Qxznx7AB9vvtvl0B43JijUo5Ef7ZGik2A3nX15bv5bHpix-c5a5V3AtEY8K9sOVjMu_mwht8G36DpohFW03r2tsWHSmwH4Fla49-6cGqGBT_be3l/s320/43B58D10-4F0E-4F2A-BFD1-D47F8A9121CC.jpg" width="256" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The swimsuit matched the skirt I had bought last year from ebay.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">What a way to spend a February birthday!</span></p></div></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-70751845042479774072023-04-13T05:46:00.001+00:002023-04-13T05:46:16.473+00:00It's My Party<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzRzlpRhPE_YbxSA-xOhkUkw3YO4wAbSFb-dGJLCc0gOc0BIv_TL1Mg0OgEKQuBeInKg8-3IWmUfhXn8IVJO3NmlB32tpoZXiLDT40o3-VBiXIkY5bEKYf2auwrUObqlxyxsxoKRx4JPpiOL4AlSZrgU1UM78dDwuRPkxx_MYH8VvhdHfLgEOBocLW/s3086/IMG_2474.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3086" data-original-width="2101" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzRzlpRhPE_YbxSA-xOhkUkw3YO4wAbSFb-dGJLCc0gOc0BIv_TL1Mg0OgEKQuBeInKg8-3IWmUfhXn8IVJO3NmlB32tpoZXiLDT40o3-VBiXIkY5bEKYf2auwrUObqlxyxsxoKRx4JPpiOL4AlSZrgU1UM78dDwuRPkxx_MYH8VvhdHfLgEOBocLW/s320/IMG_2474.JPG" width="218" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It's the day before my birthday which falls on a Saturday which means another day of banging on the building site across from our hotel so we decided to enjoy my birthday a day early by visiting the Amadores Beach Club.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I know my husband so well and his sheepish confession that he hadn't packed a birthday present for me was herded away when I produced this new Dilli Grey dress I had bought myself as I knew he would forget.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I had purchased it using my Vinted sales so it hadn't cost me anything and it hadn't cost him anything. Win win!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs93SGZXXcWQTv2Di_I4rHHgUzmqo9TWZc4ctm1FchgC9SPE0c9D9UZahmdH51xmZF3fQxyd8AN7XsBhpsWGxv726YlZ_vCicp28f3N5iMlvxSntoVRUomqUfqO2T2ojRxMsm2O-ykLBWlK3StMBOPvg8UNSQhL48XBnZTR2icoOSBg8M772JcdjxQ/s2707/IMG_2503.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2707" data-original-width="2030" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs93SGZXXcWQTv2Di_I4rHHgUzmqo9TWZc4ctm1FchgC9SPE0c9D9UZahmdH51xmZF3fQxyd8AN7XsBhpsWGxv726YlZ_vCicp28f3N5iMlvxSntoVRUomqUfqO2T2ojRxMsm2O-ykLBWlK3StMBOPvg8UNSQhL48XBnZTR2icoOSBg8M772JcdjxQ/s320/IMG_2503.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Underneath the dress I wore my favourite Tesco swimsuit and we relaxed and enjoyed the chill out area by the pool.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWX18-GmSZnur_7xAidioxv5h8seeoT5OE2RJOxPTWpJ_Oj7BTYWzkk1LYw9ZE9LdZcqIj_zmqqqztcv0SH28yHd1rP5rMatIB5sZQdXzVTnY8O21_q2bvEoSN8P8tQku11mfKMsJIv43xFCUJ4SN73jfuT8TL3Yggt3b5NFYDQSIA_3buL7CXcetd/s3027/IMG_2480.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3027" data-original-width="1439" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWX18-GmSZnur_7xAidioxv5h8seeoT5OE2RJOxPTWpJ_Oj7BTYWzkk1LYw9ZE9LdZcqIj_zmqqqztcv0SH28yHd1rP5rMatIB5sZQdXzVTnY8O21_q2bvEoSN8P8tQku11mfKMsJIv43xFCUJ4SN73jfuT8TL3Yggt3b5NFYDQSIA_3buL7CXcetd/w190-h400/IMG_2480.HEIC" width="190" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> The music had that soporific vibe and after a morning sunbathing and reading I was ready for lunch.</div></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBnXAv83QpTN66kzVC05JRFaGMhgPUljmjSZNtZ8KTOwVsmVWjmhIIEOo_kHbrlrTuyMJbrv006n0oJpUwweuAkLI9ZRb0cOeiYuWlRSbsnAstNqTLxBypjPGp3FlPpgs1xsF4noeadjyVlV7hRT7YVyA-HBHk0_WPgHPHDrwF23UvLaIb6gd1axlp/s4032/IMG_2490.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBnXAv83QpTN66kzVC05JRFaGMhgPUljmjSZNtZ8KTOwVsmVWjmhIIEOo_kHbrlrTuyMJbrv006n0oJpUwweuAkLI9ZRb0cOeiYuWlRSbsnAstNqTLxBypjPGp3FlPpgs1xsF4noeadjyVlV7hRT7YVyA-HBHk0_WPgHPHDrwF23UvLaIb6gd1axlp/s320/IMG_2490.HEIC" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">THe sushi was divine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rY8XL4uolrA" width="320" youtube-src-id="rY8XL4uolrA"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And the entertainment was entertaining.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1aypYzbiEABbi3eZdnc3YBQuPIyKa0waGqmTH_zo9haZqtE43XNCDq4NkMnBIKMOk_MIuNGvg0ZHIB2TrZhllClhAQjHJCFnk5MPPpyyPI5_dSVES6VfL5SWigrqam8rJAQjGNCiaR5myXzwqUnYgXJViBhSYpk96fNb1-U090Ja8irdZam2WMy_E/s4032/IMG_2482.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1aypYzbiEABbi3eZdnc3YBQuPIyKa0waGqmTH_zo9haZqtE43XNCDq4NkMnBIKMOk_MIuNGvg0ZHIB2TrZhllClhAQjHJCFnk5MPPpyyPI5_dSVES6VfL5SWigrqam8rJAQjGNCiaR5myXzwqUnYgXJViBhSYpk96fNb1-U090Ja8irdZam2WMy_E/s320/IMG_2482.HEIC" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The best birthday party for a long time.</span></p>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-85004363286159670202023-04-13T05:32:00.001+00:002023-04-13T05:32:14.174+00:00Friday: Markets and Maritime Life<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Frid</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-8vIb3GAOIs9K9GMR6FW00564WRCe5vxrPRJJ_n5K9Zorqe10JRWQdJCsj4fkz_D1a33LVX7ebMBmo_I-Nshul54Skia_lmsUgO_XAlB2z-L6wd7-MN7KCljEaRhvgP0fDJR15-pFKsEpyMjskVcGA9kXZasdT0GfosMVlq17UrfJk0t3kp7HXnxh/s2068/IMG_2284.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2068" data-original-width="1656" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-8vIb3GAOIs9K9GMR6FW00564WRCe5vxrPRJJ_n5K9Zorqe10JRWQdJCsj4fkz_D1a33LVX7ebMBmo_I-Nshul54Skia_lmsUgO_XAlB2z-L6wd7-MN7KCljEaRhvgP0fDJR15-pFKsEpyMjskVcGA9kXZasdT0GfosMVlq17UrfJk0t3kp7HXnxh/w320-h400/IMG_2284.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Friday and it was market day at Mogan.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Before we arrived on Gran Canaria we had been told of its beauty and we weren't disappointed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We arrived by boat from Puerto Rico which took about 30 minutes and was an enjoyable bob along the waves by the coast.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The harbour itself is so pretty, surrounded by restaurants and pretty houses and lanes which weave around the back streets.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9IC_i1oaTzEKtscKTpESXLM3OmxBowWyIwmlmm04fv2WOURNHrOIqv7tz_7RK4OFyM51UxOI5V_BS5lvrPoXWyr6RV_zFqYfuIsL03x_srkWpHONqSyh5fPqor0SUOzGcQwhtkNAi2JBHAwMAsStFx5lPzpl_M7txHnmkZqLAZuwYdZhxA1egkE12/s3359/IMG_2303.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3359" data-original-width="3021" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9IC_i1oaTzEKtscKTpESXLM3OmxBowWyIwmlmm04fv2WOURNHrOIqv7tz_7RK4OFyM51UxOI5V_BS5lvrPoXWyr6RV_zFqYfuIsL03x_srkWpHONqSyh5fPqor0SUOzGcQwhtkNAi2JBHAwMAsStFx5lPzpl_M7txHnmkZqLAZuwYdZhxA1egkE12/w360-h400/IMG_2303.HEIC" width="360" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We alighted here in front of this beautiful blue and white port building.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3QXRl6m3xXB2PPkDAEplseKksyTer7ry8oVP9u2FYd8FwqBvWii1_UJp77ygZKJg_eMlBzcaDTX0pzA7rnDXF5ExYQYWtRAx_Ozk2eWE9bh5tCzXvkBBY5fUy0elZ5P5xDw4xzlfhxlZ8Yk3L8WefJu0MvO_sNbt6vUCdn1ccCDMhTMJ5Yhl9zh7/s1024/IMG_2321.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3QXRl6m3xXB2PPkDAEplseKksyTer7ry8oVP9u2FYd8FwqBvWii1_UJp77ygZKJg_eMlBzcaDTX0pzA7rnDXF5ExYQYWtRAx_Ozk2eWE9bh5tCzXvkBBY5fUy0elZ5P5xDw4xzlfhxlZ8Yk3L8WefJu0MvO_sNbt6vUCdn1ccCDMhTMJ5Yhl9zh7/w400-h400/IMG_2321.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We enjoyed a breakfast on the harbour watching the world go by.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfgG2fkPcjWmQc0cFz1F-Pg1ATnAuCXzbwfpWpi_QSlTN91aSb60Nko4o1UJx6opO7ID3V4iJPVcaAinYVgGEaSNED7f8tEcuKaoem2nsrxTpDb8MLC_kLGYciw9FEASrMmvfSDI81MG4BzhlVCcIZ5ay5KW_mp6MRSYGAqQKZNdT4uTiAlNMO7ms/s3844/IMG_2325.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3844" data-original-width="2883" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBfgG2fkPcjWmQc0cFz1F-Pg1ATnAuCXzbwfpWpi_QSlTN91aSb60Nko4o1UJx6opO7ID3V4iJPVcaAinYVgGEaSNED7f8tEcuKaoem2nsrxTpDb8MLC_kLGYciw9FEASrMmvfSDI81MG4BzhlVCcIZ5ay5KW_mp6MRSYGAqQKZNdT4uTiAlNMO7ms/w480-h640/IMG_2325.HEIC" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I'm a sucker for a pretty door.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqdW4AugDtCBHIKfVGk4a7hvpVwJ7XzXqXW1nzF7JpMonIl1rDy9p9TPGuYQjoEFBEO9iFCqYhQdt_ZOdq4p1OOCWvlbI5Rbv-Dx0dS50E43bOxG-GwskBJgPLQo8aOoxHEsX2bcu8v2hykUyARi782Z7ch_F2odk-IYdcWlVWR3Sr8JxzC7RLnc6/s4032/IMG_2308.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqdW4AugDtCBHIKfVGk4a7hvpVwJ7XzXqXW1nzF7JpMonIl1rDy9p9TPGuYQjoEFBEO9iFCqYhQdt_ZOdq4p1OOCWvlbI5Rbv-Dx0dS50E43bOxG-GwskBJgPLQo8aOoxHEsX2bcu8v2hykUyARi782Z7ch_F2odk-IYdcWlVWR3Sr8JxzC7RLnc6/w300-h400/IMG_2308.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So pretty.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibAtPGKbPNZgJn9TyFOsSvk59KPouWTaZpbZZ-rqZBC3LR3ea5Itl0lPuJAYSvaUS4MYh2zDevCJ5Rb3RZ27FVGO8zx4_1e-WjlRmdK5Pe59_BeB6esk1lQABOB6AAOIe6ixQPAPepJA6pzRvrlip8JZhP7zQVNqWtbtwNVCLs9mihnRfHpRR2Ms-c/s3088/IMG_2330.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibAtPGKbPNZgJn9TyFOsSvk59KPouWTaZpbZZ-rqZBC3LR3ea5Itl0lPuJAYSvaUS4MYh2zDevCJ5Rb3RZ27FVGO8zx4_1e-WjlRmdK5Pe59_BeB6esk1lQABOB6AAOIe6ixQPAPepJA6pzRvrlip8JZhP7zQVNqWtbtwNVCLs9mihnRfHpRR2Ms-c/w300-h400/IMG_2330.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A coastal walk to cool off.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEq1BKs3qEDl4Vy9GT-JmmJVmPdfxPXW3wG9PypG-QhVANumURSCUK5eSOj5YeMNr71Q7L26lEx3A895HA1BcJeWiZWYtbNW5Ea4wnGDStjP2p4QTqaiqtVQooyvBCxYdLSNunb-6IGUYPjLgYRwc_k8g7iaeBYKxNm9gql7ivP_cUXS4oktL_J1NL/s3088/IMG_2335.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEq1BKs3qEDl4Vy9GT-JmmJVmPdfxPXW3wG9PypG-QhVANumURSCUK5eSOj5YeMNr71Q7L26lEx3A895HA1BcJeWiZWYtbNW5Ea4wnGDStjP2p4QTqaiqtVQooyvBCxYdLSNunb-6IGUYPjLgYRwc_k8g7iaeBYKxNm9gql7ivP_cUXS4oktL_J1NL/w300-h400/IMG_2335.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Just loved these ruggled rocks.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0Z5_VnN89jsfLMTMEXBDPNcBc8r74KzG0OPW9A7_l7owut-xMsh1ha5TyYHBv6TFcTYWK3nbG_kcZLB6zXvooiEUAzy0FH1LsyjUpqYXj7wMh-s9HmInaMWCldW90J7hdADHzfaNuaj8xNrMUAwpZYOvH8q7oDFrQwbLmyLK3mex-cFqRLb4JLEr/s4032/IMG_2382.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0Z5_VnN89jsfLMTMEXBDPNcBc8r74KzG0OPW9A7_l7owut-xMsh1ha5TyYHBv6TFcTYWK3nbG_kcZLB6zXvooiEUAzy0FH1LsyjUpqYXj7wMh-s9HmInaMWCldW90J7hdADHzfaNuaj8xNrMUAwpZYOvH8q7oDFrQwbLmyLK3mex-cFqRLb4JLEr/w300-h400/IMG_2382.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">At 1pm we took another boat out to see the dolphins in their natural habitat.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It took about an hour t get there. We stayed for an hour and another hour back.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The photos are not great on my phone but we saw so many happy dolphins showboating in the sea.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJvBNVeMhFiZODt3G_ZE8tYJqucjiagE8T10K6jRd9mHVkTmKUUbP_K-6SztughYz7p69Qgl3qtkugsIQXyO7L2jxBZ4kiA84POJBdbbxQDoS0h-r4v8DY1IWug1_EY2uYpGk8he71Q8bIlkNcwfxL-ASN59YHtIlTIoNSzJ3ANi7dZgJeCTzIPF7B/s4032/IMG_2362.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJvBNVeMhFiZODt3G_ZE8tYJqucjiagE8T10K6jRd9mHVkTmKUUbP_K-6SztughYz7p69Qgl3qtkugsIQXyO7L2jxBZ4kiA84POJBdbbxQDoS0h-r4v8DY1IWug1_EY2uYpGk8he71Q8bIlkNcwfxL-ASN59YHtIlTIoNSzJ3ANi7dZgJeCTzIPF7B/w300-h400/IMG_2362.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Cheers!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Today I wore:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Trainers: New Balance</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Shorts - All Saints via Vinted</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Tshirt - River Island via Vinted</span></p>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-71136729482632552422023-04-03T16:59:00.000+00:002023-04-03T16:59:07.769+00:00Touring Thursday<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjog44Scbo0w1F465eryF6Q-WotV5-Reu_bJleOpwzA_-cApM5US0OTuh6Nyp9TR7dPH5uBf6MGAjROaPO0EwYhAXpWutth2wdVDbaY088BK8RIipgKI-J0N5vkB49j1z4VWwIwSboMQU4MMl7jRkxYHZVMp-ZVhASKGY4zCoebI5VvEOeJdPDgKzOQ/s3088/IMG_2211.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjog44Scbo0w1F465eryF6Q-WotV5-Reu_bJleOpwzA_-cApM5US0OTuh6Nyp9TR7dPH5uBf6MGAjROaPO0EwYhAXpWutth2wdVDbaY088BK8RIipgKI-J0N5vkB49j1z4VWwIwSboMQU4MMl7jRkxYHZVMp-ZVhASKGY4zCoebI5VvEOeJdPDgKzOQ/w300-h400/IMG_2211.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Thursday was the day we decided to tour the beautiful island of Gran Canaria.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We had been warned to expect a wide range of temperatures so while it was sunny in Puerto Rico I added extra layers for the coller climes.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwx9NBFoaDgXrNBgut1uB0icW1A4BChzZtwuA-325HdzD_XFdhrDn1bHTZwp1uP5wfrZ0kGU3707yg6kexD_MNwkPDm8IyGVjzYRn5uKvU_UwKm2Ca_MrSZleDKGJfyTY85bHKz-GkRqRc9lQj4tLU2bnXbmemYrl_RD8UzVIlWT3jBgM-scwRjQWm/w300-h400/IMG_2110.HEIC" width="300" /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Our coach picked us up at 8am and with a number of pick ups we arrived at the island's capital of Las Palmas for a quick stop outside the Alfredo Kraus auditorium - the cultural hub of the island.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNboBieHOL5mOBcwsLLyuZDZTuwJ5yHgT2Ud4mheIQsm2sYQYbCK8DLBnEN03yz4Gp2scMXlj8dzR62XkK8tYpvfnYvrydDZ-G2bjh7q_d-9gz-jCdz79P2DDQpEVUS7KFpRtjRsdOmviRZMY4bmJmVlmTMvyQfQeDKF0cAjF5QBeLVePZezaLO3M/s4032/IMG_2128.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNboBieHOL5mOBcwsLLyuZDZTuwJ5yHgT2Ud4mheIQsm2sYQYbCK8DLBnEN03yz4Gp2scMXlj8dzR62XkK8tYpvfnYvrydDZ-G2bjh7q_d-9gz-jCdz79P2DDQpEVUS7KFpRtjRsdOmviRZMY4bmJmVlmTMvyQfQeDKF0cAjF5QBeLVePZezaLO3M/w300-h400/IMG_2128.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Next stop was the magnificent cathedral in Arucas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawJm52Iyi-SXHt86Du6X_MWh6vW2VuKxIpciZwBuNvkktxgJaSvJKhC7VQnjIMKbfo3GA0oP17yhZjR4emXAso2FlncrZxA6zSvpgef11WXKfuk8hICT8J7JNnueYjhXu9hWbBhpZ45PMOW0rZHmPw8CHJLohEDIAl8wnu5QA8rJmuyTyb1zzpc_q/s4032/IMG_2145.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjawJm52Iyi-SXHt86Du6X_MWh6vW2VuKxIpciZwBuNvkktxgJaSvJKhC7VQnjIMKbfo3GA0oP17yhZjR4emXAso2FlncrZxA6zSvpgef11WXKfuk8hICT8J7JNnueYjhXu9hWbBhpZ45PMOW0rZHmPw8CHJLohEDIAl8wnu5QA8rJmuyTyb1zzpc_q/w300-h400/IMG_2145.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Before heading off to the wonderful town of Teror which felt like we were centre stage in an old American western.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxEO57TmY1Nb9zpbB7iFglC1O67IS2JOBhabzHA-8t2v6CVS3e1i6gQXCHczVCPL9rF_8IFSq4aOmsp_pYd8g9-Csx3YBQjBVVx0AfSNFagVVprNGdnMpCAi388J5rfiMtljRk9_l9hr3x26NdU2SZne9qDrqvCExWvA6nwHev3XT7FUl2qdqeGCsT/s4032/IMG_2183.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxEO57TmY1Nb9zpbB7iFglC1O67IS2JOBhabzHA-8t2v6CVS3e1i6gQXCHczVCPL9rF_8IFSq4aOmsp_pYd8g9-Csx3YBQjBVVx0AfSNFagVVprNGdnMpCAi388J5rfiMtljRk9_l9hr3x26NdU2SZne9qDrqvCExWvA6nwHev3XT7FUl2qdqeGCsT/w300-h400/IMG_2183.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Next stop was a fabulous vantage point for Roque Nublo considered to be one of the biggest natural crags in the world.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA-S2T7SKMy8ZdE5i90TsAUTIFmdhcFnCX4fczi9BshNRNGr66pnIN_RoEFOafz0DUSDJmsv-4EyNLYmTCHsqd024RNlit7QzPYag87LRNolpk2oOHJ5qA268vQ6Ek5-Is-3E3AdwGSFmE9PYggpLFeHS4qP8eXsWzCen0cyMr2yt7gdWUGq7tCM3h/w300-h400/IMG_2194.HEIC" width="300" /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After a stop to buy some delicious almond cake and local cheese, it was time for a coffee before heading back to our hotel where thankfully the building work had finished for the day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsZ91SY-IeaNWovqW7mTe-lP04kjemofy-mGEbzXS3-sHzJtCNiI7RPfpqednwHJpP8mh7Wx9jFzqpPxIeeL2b9zp6GRQOM9GfSfpyYKGomIjb0wRIkYoFMlkF15EDqC0u18cc3fSKaMzj7JYT72HxKKtba8Ynl8LxhpkV2PS4ymNSmwNapxz7fu1/s4032/IMG_2199.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZsZ91SY-IeaNWovqW7mTe-lP04kjemofy-mGEbzXS3-sHzJtCNiI7RPfpqednwHJpP8mh7Wx9jFzqpPxIeeL2b9zp6GRQOM9GfSfpyYKGomIjb0wRIkYoFMlkF15EDqC0u18cc3fSKaMzj7JYT72HxKKtba8Ynl8LxhpkV2PS4ymNSmwNapxz7fu1/w300-h400/IMG_2199.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">But not before a final visit to the ubiquitous aloe vera plantation trip.</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNtAuyfdQWYkdlz3NK0U5KyKG_RQSNZ3uZmLgoh1FImwZ-rX0Ie84ik-WRxuzQFXh5T95U6rvkPt8R9GxFjhb7DwprAsAwD3MuWWkCsSLmn5B1Gwxl7pdtftbV2mzYDHuWvYapiB-bIZqCZ-2UIjKLHIrioOPix5Kg2xMyrhub2ap1FbfYxykSockP/s3084/IMG_2203.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3084" data-original-width="1795" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNtAuyfdQWYkdlz3NK0U5KyKG_RQSNZ3uZmLgoh1FImwZ-rX0Ie84ik-WRxuzQFXh5T95U6rvkPt8R9GxFjhb7DwprAsAwD3MuWWkCsSLmn5B1Gwxl7pdtftbV2mzYDHuWvYapiB-bIZqCZ-2UIjKLHIrioOPix5Kg2xMyrhub2ap1FbfYxykSockP/w233-h400/IMG_2203.HEIC" width="233" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Dinner was yummy!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMe8BTp_fomWoeVyikcVPBCCmJwQx9afFE2h27yuMFBsMHQ14CeoZjBVjldSIFtRl9EIJSY-AOG154Z6qWgfNifKUwdQQFatUh0T1uRbaZnAur4PzZHQXWzGftNvHP097yC_v_Bo55xzGNWSsJVfybEo7iL1jBP8oSjAllfVk5nfzCmqUsPCtdR6Af/s4032/IMG_2256.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMe8BTp_fomWoeVyikcVPBCCmJwQx9afFE2h27yuMFBsMHQ14CeoZjBVjldSIFtRl9EIJSY-AOG154Z6qWgfNifKUwdQQFatUh0T1uRbaZnAur4PzZHQXWzGftNvHP097yC_v_Bo55xzGNWSsJVfybEo7iL1jBP8oSjAllfVk5nfzCmqUsPCtdR6Af/w300-h400/IMG_2256.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Cheers !</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh_Y0kcdvw5rZ3g_Tt_TIF36Eydux9DUqm8-tt05NOdoVcnGhdRnQchkjBCdLnpOPqVYko7ofPoDu_ZxoW8Kv9dk7X0marjAOXQ-bhAH1FX7FF3xrBjyTEjsMEFhAqyhsUK8LDfnro6xu75un3X_cRry8XEhC2-nbyeRNTC5A7gdxvq_xFI3Bhic0/s3088/IMG_2248.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh_Y0kcdvw5rZ3g_Tt_TIF36Eydux9DUqm8-tt05NOdoVcnGhdRnQchkjBCdLnpOPqVYko7ofPoDu_ZxoW8Kv9dk7X0marjAOXQ-bhAH1FX7FF3xrBjyTEjsMEFhAqyhsUK8LDfnro6xu75un3X_cRry8XEhC2-nbyeRNTC5A7gdxvq_xFI3Bhic0/w300-h400/IMG_2248.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Striped dress abd denima jacket both preloved from Vinted</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Poncho - Monsoon.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-26077168071594308262023-04-01T16:27:00.001+00:002023-04-01T16:27:08.498+00:00Walking Wednesday<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVcsbTG5SaUeCFgxFilN0Z7QM7o8FWM4Se943t9RkgXjhVJzFIgImeXNNauhFKEyVBPqG_nAEby8DDEOuRvP7_8N5Cv-giw9Ziq3klg3kEP9hkN7Ps6p6_0DCNLWDIBbkcS1cnZpzoqUa0P4exaoBdxFZUWZeLhWroeiLWrMkUOtlK082y5YnndvB/s2314/IMG_1976.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2314" data-original-width="1792" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYVcsbTG5SaUeCFgxFilN0Z7QM7o8FWM4Se943t9RkgXjhVJzFIgImeXNNauhFKEyVBPqG_nAEby8DDEOuRvP7_8N5Cv-giw9Ziq3klg3kEP9hkN7Ps6p6_0DCNLWDIBbkcS1cnZpzoqUa0P4exaoBdxFZUWZeLhWroeiLWrMkUOtlK082y5YnndvB/w310-h400/IMG_1976.JPG" width="310" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">One of my favourite days of the holiday.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It started with a 7am workout in the gym.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Did I ever tell you I met my husband in the univeristy gym during Fresher's Week?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We have always loved to work out - over the past 30 years, since the children came along it hasn't always been possible to train together but now the children are fleeing the nest one by one we are finding out what brought us together in the first place!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBpdPQP1iVhjp6fwRpO4VPgbr5-wn7lQjhq_lKAfnEMzQqardghX6q79Qdq3K4B3WZITaevTFr0JaaIiCpBVc38kuFa0o2jpwDJ11L2fT_QbtkUXJS5iz4H7J3LxNSpS4IAxJtkXjr3LMcsu-9as9ocldrNJwuXU0dkYbK3I5CJ8dEG1LESxEs4ayy/s4032/IMG_1863.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBpdPQP1iVhjp6fwRpO4VPgbr5-wn7lQjhq_lKAfnEMzQqardghX6q79Qdq3K4B3WZITaevTFr0JaaIiCpBVc38kuFa0o2jpwDJ11L2fT_QbtkUXJS5iz4H7J3LxNSpS4IAxJtkXjr3LMcsu-9as9ocldrNJwuXU0dkYbK3I5CJ8dEG1LESxEs4ayy/w300-h400/IMG_1863.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After a breakfast on the balcony we headed out towards Amadores and kept on walking.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSc7pHS5Gb1JpccuAcuiPhbqar1ZufshATn7lVyKLsY5DUDhs_cqt4O0LRqk0QMgJMLXsmk-zn4sXmi51_AdKCXsMVuX6bP5olac0PVFgaIEjQO1Yg6dZMsAYGnsuXUlU1suWW1N-wvuDeNHdSthLxB4OdIv9Q0ZD0m6VdL7jkI5PYQYPa_XO1tNxr/s2523/IMG_2023.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2523" data-original-width="1840" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSc7pHS5Gb1JpccuAcuiPhbqar1ZufshATn7lVyKLsY5DUDhs_cqt4O0LRqk0QMgJMLXsmk-zn4sXmi51_AdKCXsMVuX6bP5olac0PVFgaIEjQO1Yg6dZMsAYGnsuXUlU1suWW1N-wvuDeNHdSthLxB4OdIv9Q0ZD0m6VdL7jkI5PYQYPa_XO1tNxr/w291-h400/IMG_2023.HEIC" width="291" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We passed lots of lovely coves and beaches and at one we found a supermarket where we bought a bag of ice, a bottle of rose, some plastic wine glasses and some bread and cheese.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6f8FRym-scijg2b3vqo35TuZMZaUi1IbuQHSnRowlUvVMdC1RyW835eJc8OVV7SUz2uO6cx5W0CKrmgYe85G5R0zm0-0f3WdFVRsXTebfhfZ1r-RzqapXIwvb6QIEq4QOTByGZs9tE1cIj3O_HwjsHgTvIQzyxMFULFGwuxbS48Y5RpKzDMniFMxT/s4032/IMG_2036.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6f8FRym-scijg2b3vqo35TuZMZaUi1IbuQHSnRowlUvVMdC1RyW835eJc8OVV7SUz2uO6cx5W0CKrmgYe85G5R0zm0-0f3WdFVRsXTebfhfZ1r-RzqapXIwvb6QIEq4QOTByGZs9tE1cIj3O_HwjsHgTvIQzyxMFULFGwuxbS48Y5RpKzDMniFMxT/w300-h400/IMG_2036.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; 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font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Time for a siesta after lunch and my new book from the charity shop.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I don't know how I missed this first time around as I absolutely loved it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVPJeXkzMTaq3Hz4PFD4jBQwf64phR-mCEubV9DdsyCknam840RJJBVyAYgBYW1CqZF7IQelrythGcCg4DO3yYeL6e9eEnLDE59pu3o7cp0rWSu_63uT5DYW9qjw2-jB_A9FbiHXXpkdjZ8rmwSJabunx3G6W380PftqmdqacI0KQ2yVgKKabLy9kI/s4032/IMG_1980.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVPJeXkzMTaq3Hz4PFD4jBQwf64phR-mCEubV9DdsyCknam840RJJBVyAYgBYW1CqZF7IQelrythGcCg4DO3yYeL6e9eEnLDE59pu3o7cp0rWSu_63uT5DYW9qjw2-jB_A9FbiHXXpkdjZ8rmwSJabunx3G6W380PftqmdqacI0KQ2yVgKKabLy9kI/w300-h400/IMG_1980.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It's a hard life!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx4_CbxYcttZJnh_H7X0TtV1Wtnp5LtWMGYV2hvm3cO1a_tMx2kc3oXn4oMw9HCPi3qLHHzWiMxmbbFFV_RQbjrYZhE1twxjvKFDyr0Eau1WHeAAs6cVn3guAZ31ACGT3OxFzXpTHevc0t_vmW7iZJ4R0dmwOKj3eAGlFSpVxMV0f2wcBVXgtK2aoG/s3106/IMG_2050.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3106" data-original-width="2111" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx4_CbxYcttZJnh_H7X0TtV1Wtnp5LtWMGYV2hvm3cO1a_tMx2kc3oXn4oMw9HCPi3qLHHzWiMxmbbFFV_RQbjrYZhE1twxjvKFDyr0Eau1WHeAAs6cVn3guAZ31ACGT3OxFzXpTHevc0t_vmW7iZJ4R0dmwOKj3eAGlFSpVxMV0f2wcBVXgtK2aoG/w271-h400/IMG_2050.HEIC" width="271" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Back at the hotel, a quick shower and change and we headed off to a local restaurant for an evening meal out for a change.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif8CnyCjPFTH8tB9onhMpWkiIVA2jO9PkJdwLm77blvYgi1lV-96MgnSuHQDxxu_sgV2JHxbGpDL1ED3gid2ZT3PBkGiJp7fv6tNIstAQSgWI4PVv6y6O1tPL8sHAuphOldNqmDfatV6-YMrNxmomuiN8OL2hTybPJLgYsQO2QCZvrTinoRzr6wh5j/s2578/IMG_2101.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2578" data-original-width="1821" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif8CnyCjPFTH8tB9onhMpWkiIVA2jO9PkJdwLm77blvYgi1lV-96MgnSuHQDxxu_sgV2JHxbGpDL1ED3gid2ZT3PBkGiJp7fv6tNIstAQSgWI4PVv6y6O1tPL8sHAuphOldNqmDfatV6-YMrNxmomuiN8OL2hTybPJLgYsQO2QCZvrTinoRzr6wh5j/w283-h400/IMG_2101.JPG" width="283" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Crochet Dress - Zara</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Jeans - Tommy HIlfiger</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Swimsuit - Top Shop via Vinted</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Blue top - Ralph Lauren</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sandals - Birkenstock</span></p></div></div></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-35541966153789147532023-03-20T18:40:00.003+00:002023-03-20T18:40:29.612+00:00A Tumultuous Tuesday<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLppfXom1JPdo7zB9EtNvPiWOg4LuouqAYRxnClwu31fNy5SV3rPZuECQIJOxH7x5S0_csWYiN8muG4T7VGdYMxdvwhAYN98LYALhG0o3L1i0--CIUOA4fgf6fG--ugkrLCZwptRzA1KAwJ4cceusSfYnDlZ5c3tjxJvR32LweOS4t5p1iB7oU9GJ0/s2451/885BAD58-1D81-4601-8F1A-587A483747B7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2451" data-original-width="2098" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLppfXom1JPdo7zB9EtNvPiWOg4LuouqAYRxnClwu31fNy5SV3rPZuECQIJOxH7x5S0_csWYiN8muG4T7VGdYMxdvwhAYN98LYALhG0o3L1i0--CIUOA4fgf6fG--ugkrLCZwptRzA1KAwJ4cceusSfYnDlZ5c3tjxJvR32LweOS4t5p1iB7oU9GJ0/w343-h400/885BAD58-1D81-4601-8F1A-587A483747B7.jpg" width="343" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">With the building work across from our balcony at full throttle we headed out for a bus trip to Playa del Ingles, one of the oldest resorts on the island.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As it was sunny in Puerto Rico I wore these preloved Top Shop shorts with my supermarket hat.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRMVOn7dls00338PIMGAYce9yfOp7oTb6DLMnUh2rKB8MqQx-ZlMm3BcDGbwqN0TwNmMD5gtUeR3OuwtR6jrjGsDHK567Z3-2qlPs1XewE4W2pTmmtP--hQXWx_AL5io_JPTuHZXvGL_KZgKy8KL47kUFxdI7eVryKaN7W9_pqogu4xf4jQpDhcOdv/s3088/IMG_1837.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRMVOn7dls00338PIMGAYce9yfOp7oTb6DLMnUh2rKB8MqQx-ZlMm3BcDGbwqN0TwNmMD5gtUeR3OuwtR6jrjGsDHK567Z3-2qlPs1XewE4W2pTmmtP--hQXWx_AL5io_JPTuHZXvGL_KZgKy8KL47kUFxdI7eVryKaN7W9_pqogu4xf4jQpDhcOdv/w300-h400/IMG_1837.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The resort is a very rugged, windy beach which leads to a series of beautiful sand dunes.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My husband is a keen bird watcher and went off in search of the elusive Hoopoe, I settled on the sand with my charity shop book which I read in two days and would heartily reccomend. Its set in 1930s Kentucky ad follows a group of women who have been recruited as Pack Horse Librarians based on the real life initiative by Frankin D Roosevelt and his New Deal.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTes1jlPPMbO4zKZDTUeBRf2n6lLQuGd5lTmTVUMrmfydwjGSXaUvAMjjEPwGEXtSHS3ezUuQIoi9atFHd8vgHBuODczVywsgBduXa1P6_Dv_qie-SuN74kuMrUxJqYQ6I6TKSfU72NyVGyIYAhkZrbYaITVTIK4Yla6uPnJrkC_yb9Bqsan2BczA1/s4032/IMG_1858.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTes1jlPPMbO4zKZDTUeBRf2n6lLQuGd5lTmTVUMrmfydwjGSXaUvAMjjEPwGEXtSHS3ezUuQIoi9atFHd8vgHBuODczVywsgBduXa1P6_Dv_qie-SuN74kuMrUxJqYQ6I6TKSfU72NyVGyIYAhkZrbYaITVTIK4Yla6uPnJrkC_yb9Bqsan2BczA1/w300-h400/IMG_1858.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As it was cooler on the way home I thre on this gorgeous kaftan from Next which my friend had bought me as an early birthday present.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Pqr8iMxYljAh1RCBHjrdR3Xc4cgdrNF_Nra4jRzuIfVg1EBzlPeCcwBOGXv1Q0WlOA6RAgfaRJMLxeqZlAdGfKZ90lUVNfqhMtXhMZeFqs8ZXHKqkVyxUrkTKhSp6IqNkD25t1Mw5N8u-I7Jvv4ceiS97PwsLNW8atkwRypQCpN2TfJv_Z1kU090/s2289/19C4C757-6D83-40C9-B720-BD22FAF116C7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2289" data-original-width="2289" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Pqr8iMxYljAh1RCBHjrdR3Xc4cgdrNF_Nra4jRzuIfVg1EBzlPeCcwBOGXv1Q0WlOA6RAgfaRJMLxeqZlAdGfKZ90lUVNfqhMtXhMZeFqs8ZXHKqkVyxUrkTKhSp6IqNkD25t1Mw5N8u-I7Jvv4ceiS97PwsLNW8atkwRypQCpN2TfJv_Z1kU090/w400-h400/19C4C757-6D83-40C9-B720-BD22FAF116C7.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As we had eaten out for lunch, dinner was a little cheese, bread and wine then it was time for bed in this gorgeous Dilli Grey nightdress.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Tomorrow we planned to find some new beaches nearer out hotel.</span></p>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-25468179664998890662023-03-10T10:14:00.001+00:002023-03-10T10:14:00.181+00:00Manic Monday<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmJJ9d1rJLx-IaC-6zNcGuvWGH2OgMDuLURUSQ_UZsHh6TaQkOuRAzeyFp3W3c3zlmSGUV9aZGvyPp3pYfc5piNHQ-byJh4A5gvYo_dOVu_hzkv3cu80rsl49cRozWuorWtiVtl-yLii3E8FzDkxax_VFmbkDFF6cP9D3lm80WhHe7r6bJXx1HJ-M/s4032/IMG_1644.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmJJ9d1rJLx-IaC-6zNcGuvWGH2OgMDuLURUSQ_UZsHh6TaQkOuRAzeyFp3W3c3zlmSGUV9aZGvyPp3pYfc5piNHQ-byJh4A5gvYo_dOVu_hzkv3cu80rsl49cRozWuorWtiVtl-yLii3E8FzDkxax_VFmbkDFF6cP9D3lm80WhHe7r6bJXx1HJ-M/w300-h400/IMG_1644.HEIC" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The first Monday started well.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We got up about 6am and went to the gym which had an amazing view across the ocean.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, by the time we returned to our balcony for breakfast, work was underway on the building site across the way.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">If I say there were four cranes there you get an idea of how big the building site was.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7orj3Fbq-auFVcI7siMoJ8CucKmJW1QTNBzEy5MTVFnPLSQWsPJ_y-QN_FgRksejFyzcOQHi0fyu95vfwcg-bCazUxNVLCTS3d5ptyIZVZkzntZq_18K8nDXMNA5VKb1ILzr6myrvc4u7W_NqlKWhqpopjngcdIZ9VmmeGVcOLmxtIn6l-AuzqSZZ/s2667/80AEFBF5-623A-429D-B9CE-22E4CA3F7ABC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2667" data-original-width="2134" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7orj3Fbq-auFVcI7siMoJ8CucKmJW1QTNBzEy5MTVFnPLSQWsPJ_y-QN_FgRksejFyzcOQHi0fyu95vfwcg-bCazUxNVLCTS3d5ptyIZVZkzntZq_18K8nDXMNA5VKb1ILzr6myrvc4u7W_NqlKWhqpopjngcdIZ9VmmeGVcOLmxtIn6l-AuzqSZZ/w320-h400/80AEFBF5-623A-429D-B9CE-22E4CA3F7ABC.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The upside was that we got dressed and went out early to explore in another direction.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I wore this gorgeous green dress I had admired on my daughter in Marbella last year.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">She was about to send it to the charity shop because one of the tiers had ripped. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I got my needle and thread out and it was as good as new.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It is a lovely linen feel.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ujllNW8TbSfXNe78b-tKf_CyojYdgztMdVea90kmmQvbu5da_XutjhSWfDVpLlEZc9o-2w1eWeDX3_YoXmx8J30PxVdwmeE767grR8p5CkCnPdI2shteuV244aMjpzHrA28pQw7PT43VfAbweBGqOaeWDfzxArkJCEObJXxY1HY4XKdNG2zpuKZ3/s2065/IMG_1681.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2065" data-original-width="1727" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ujllNW8TbSfXNe78b-tKf_CyojYdgztMdVea90kmmQvbu5da_XutjhSWfDVpLlEZc9o-2w1eWeDX3_YoXmx8J30PxVdwmeE767grR8p5CkCnPdI2shteuV244aMjpzHrA28pQw7PT43VfAbweBGqOaeWDfzxArkJCEObJXxY1HY4XKdNG2zpuKZ3/w335-h400/IMG_1681.HEIC" width="335" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I loved our walk down to the port as we always passed this cheery art on the wall.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqClTozDHQku8YlvWduYx5q2DGB9_6aPDUie3aOe8pr-TnZZKIK75MCS3VA9ksKwzCtmd4SlcBytbpbAFxZuKD_FhpBYJ0BkuPUjr72cPKmY1uCBUFJh5j9C4I093X1qLd95gQ093IDpTXtecDkFKDzhPaK2kvDuL1Op9rfwLY0-KOU2ETMU1rW0v/s2873/IMG_1702.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2873" data-original-width="2154" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqClTozDHQku8YlvWduYx5q2DGB9_6aPDUie3aOe8pr-TnZZKIK75MCS3VA9ksKwzCtmd4SlcBytbpbAFxZuKD_FhpBYJ0BkuPUjr72cPKmY1uCBUFJh5j9C4I093X1qLd95gQ093IDpTXtecDkFKDzhPaK2kvDuL1Op9rfwLY0-KOU2ETMU1rW0v/w300-h400/IMG_1702.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">There are lots of lovely viewpoints on the way down too.</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGG7oTEvISGt_xDmPNJMA6q99pjlrek8YFEMHah6Wh_xRlJdIw2y5cVbGAySNxOGGGMt-fh6iGcoOmmZ9BpLRrxKrj6JJsyNEyZDQbhZN9eJUELwxMUI_tUOHM6tCP-cQIXrUpDh_cOtupLwxxqBzBDDYaIL7Ar7Js0yCFlsdcFv8zoR-wGYrkB2RQ/s1800/6DDAEF8D-AD15-4548-8D6B-DE887F9BE2E7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGG7oTEvISGt_xDmPNJMA6q99pjlrek8YFEMHah6Wh_xRlJdIw2y5cVbGAySNxOGGGMt-fh6iGcoOmmZ9BpLRrxKrj6JJsyNEyZDQbhZN9eJUELwxMUI_tUOHM6tCP-cQIXrUpDh_cOtupLwxxqBzBDDYaIL7Ar7Js0yCFlsdcFv8zoR-wGYrkB2RQ/w320-h400/6DDAEF8D-AD15-4548-8D6B-DE887F9BE2E7.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We returned at 6pm just as the building work finished but we decided to eat out again and walked back to Amadores.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was a 28,000 step day.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I have heard<a href="https://vintagevixon.blogspot.com/"> Vix t</a>alk about Dili Grey and I managed to get a bargain top in their sale which is now my facourite top ever.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTa-oluBTpCgjg9SYhweTHOEVKpHAHkPXfEblRc7TeTBNF4RGT7sTNcPfZRNycTOCP3-pGBXXM09uzcNBYHkrMghn7Rc4ODMJDXImuc53NZnLuQ1LWPT_1t5Kz4fIDxXrXMvKkKCTFa-WfiEm3GvCK0RyWt5o3OauqvvJnRgtSt_YnaGkbVOHUwWhS/s3299/IMG_1755.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3299" data-original-width="2195" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTa-oluBTpCgjg9SYhweTHOEVKpHAHkPXfEblRc7TeTBNF4RGT7sTNcPfZRNycTOCP3-pGBXXM09uzcNBYHkrMghn7Rc4ODMJDXImuc53NZnLuQ1LWPT_1t5Kz4fIDxXrXMvKkKCTFa-WfiEm3GvCK0RyWt5o3OauqvvJnRgtSt_YnaGkbVOHUwWhS/w266-h400/IMG_1755.HEIC" width="266" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The beach was deserted by the time we got there.</span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWud-D_xtVMj8HGSByGiQHKqlZI6c8217-EZGkcnnnPcTr_jg_JzbEnhl3SZRguPsiYjGQMKnptH9ZdowgmYzDE5ULZ3YuCZ0eNG4qXMuziWdvB1ZanGie5vhgN73q24Tn26MnvrkFHNVPXtDAbzcFn3mEATk0JqJZHmDjqznwA0J31lixbWj3oe9w/s4032/IMG_1757.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWud-D_xtVMj8HGSByGiQHKqlZI6c8217-EZGkcnnnPcTr_jg_JzbEnhl3SZRguPsiYjGQMKnptH9ZdowgmYzDE5ULZ3YuCZ0eNG4qXMuziWdvB1ZanGie5vhgN73q24Tn26MnvrkFHNVPXtDAbzcFn3mEATk0JqJZHmDjqznwA0J31lixbWj3oe9w/s320/IMG_1757.HEIC" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And the paella was delicious.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Tomorrow we try out the local buses.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-3837920313293956172023-03-09T10:13:00.006+00:002023-03-09T10:13:54.394+00:00Saturday Night Sunday Morning<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0L2WSDvjUsqx8dNCHRiGPXo453icGFF9i_jx1ugrRj7eZhq2FR9wmAufFKjytWjNK2JYvldiilF0AtXazhwVkaKgRjUAgMLBwCHypADIXZwLflW70L-hzRfru1dhViB-tRm34OUEs-ybpQdSXSpuX305XONyzpcg0V_fVklHjntIBVmvvtXnVuQC/s3088/IMG_1521.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY0L2WSDvjUsqx8dNCHRiGPXo453icGFF9i_jx1ugrRj7eZhq2FR9wmAufFKjytWjNK2JYvldiilF0AtXazhwVkaKgRjUAgMLBwCHypADIXZwLflW70L-hzRfru1dhViB-tRm34OUEs-ybpQdSXSpuX305XONyzpcg0V_fVklHjntIBVmvvtXnVuQC/w300-h400/IMG_1521.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We arrived at our hilltop hotel around 5pm on Saturday afternoon which was our 34th wedding anniversary.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiAiWXdTrt901n5ePWsBfA-NkP2_a68eiskrQ5wmnDW1V8eS3VFLJu7w9G984E-VGxSZpXcV_C6qNB8KCdyr_ZVpQ7Qmc8dHCUKm96aUBcWCaDzrOeaVN4pSKwCEzNJ2uoTiZB_jzT3WYdy-NMc89aUfE1565TcGxSIM_K-vhmMDCxQ0rTfBeFSzYQ/s3261/IMG_1508.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3261" data-original-width="1663" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiAiWXdTrt901n5ePWsBfA-NkP2_a68eiskrQ5wmnDW1V8eS3VFLJu7w9G984E-VGxSZpXcV_C6qNB8KCdyr_ZVpQ7Qmc8dHCUKm96aUBcWCaDzrOeaVN4pSKwCEzNJ2uoTiZB_jzT3WYdy-NMc89aUfE1565TcGxSIM_K-vhmMDCxQ0rTfBeFSzYQ/w204-h400/IMG_1508.jpeg" width="204" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So it was a quick unpack and then off down the 650 steps to Puerto Rico for a meal.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4029" data-original-width="2184" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdxtNBFV10a_6OHrjQxozr5R_0k88WwNE776RIVr5MQ2a7vKQDf2Q6FmOn98wBgNnIxFEDWu0r3-CfdA3xIzIhYVBoUhoBYpBZWt8tYVPxLTdO3-RrMKn70i_CV3XLjoqFuugckLZmjb43tybQw_yYk1-vpbJtrD5hBQyTbPaXGyLgYFdecsoO2Zqv/w216-h400/IMG_1509.jpeg" width="216" /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Of course I ran out of wardrobe space and made good use of the generous coat hooks!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">For our meal out I wore the preloved Isabel Marant dress in the first photo.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We chose the first restaurant we came to and it was a winner.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Packed at 6pm we got a table right at the front.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPR5flXRZY9YBQ82qpOfJW182gcAifdm6Tv4cXWvrc2D2x43Szq4eGTASkEaCe1cxgnIR482FzoDQyic6M0HabyaILWxSm_ai1prnS9R2Nnr8R3CPIvN78U0Fvze_09sF1GlUnVuKKzo5hUYoio8VaV7Ah8cW9FQ7-aUCe5LyzZrsOjyGDG8HN8v24/s2931/IMG_1626.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2931" data-original-width="2198" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPR5flXRZY9YBQ82qpOfJW182gcAifdm6Tv4cXWvrc2D2x43Szq4eGTASkEaCe1cxgnIR482FzoDQyic6M0HabyaILWxSm_ai1prnS9R2Nnr8R3CPIvN78U0Fvze_09sF1GlUnVuKKzo5hUYoio8VaV7Ah8cW9FQ7-aUCe5LyzZrsOjyGDG8HN8v24/s320/IMG_1626.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The next morning was a sunny Sunday and I wore these preloved All Saints shorts with a preloved Urban Outfitters belt and my me-made Granny Square top.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-HU3ExmUNCoRLyF0A102D5icptJVlFDU-1uT2f0WI_vS7o1b8YXk1vmIgqeN1xbZx1Gg0H5cuMwQ01TzwLMvyqt9aEfWRqlsnwRdccSM_ypJwsadFhaHZPddXRtUg39M7xuZoIPEhI2xWbTJyHtPRowp6RjTZanPsJ84udctb1M3bHpayjl8xcqyL/s4032/IMG_1576.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-HU3ExmUNCoRLyF0A102D5icptJVlFDU-1uT2f0WI_vS7o1b8YXk1vmIgqeN1xbZx1Gg0H5cuMwQ01TzwLMvyqt9aEfWRqlsnwRdccSM_ypJwsadFhaHZPddXRtUg39M7xuZoIPEhI2xWbTJyHtPRowp6RjTZanPsJ84udctb1M3bHpayjl8xcqyL/s320/IMG_1576.HEIC" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Breakfast was an Americano on the beach.</div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_xmvgAvpBgytpV_9GXQwLHENcssYq2c1OoDGx5isAYHTHJyEaUA_vzwHHjBmgof86Y_3htUCTpzGDCYpQdle9LqtwEPhS9uuA_6E11Kq9ILy-Z9ozeX6aEuX8--Q0tLtTMSAKf_AvYoejO9JVvyT34JUAu4E0Dgb3p6iflZxhpM1Sh8ZSWAylZlMA/s4032/IMG_1589.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_xmvgAvpBgytpV_9GXQwLHENcssYq2c1OoDGx5isAYHTHJyEaUA_vzwHHjBmgof86Y_3htUCTpzGDCYpQdle9LqtwEPhS9uuA_6E11Kq9ILy-Z9ozeX6aEuX8--Q0tLtTMSAKf_AvYoejO9JVvyT34JUAu4E0Dgb3p6iflZxhpM1Sh8ZSWAylZlMA/s320/IMG_1589.HEIC" width="240" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Lunch was a glass of Rose with a Tomato and Cheese Salad.</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-OjvCv9xkJvB-U6CfZ59VBt3UdNxfzj-amoDZTaPynE2qLD1otmLFycqQ-Ll4IksNdM1e3x6tBxdg0BJVvvX02i3NPTSpGNzKP68s9sDnH25ajiweY2aXYTqsqeySHweg_Inqj1EOdx2wkzfFECJo-gE_Zg4HRe4cucCdrImJrZNRj9Z2lZzzoY9/s4032/IMG_1594.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik-OjvCv9xkJvB-U6CfZ59VBt3UdNxfzj-amoDZTaPynE2qLD1otmLFycqQ-Ll4IksNdM1e3x6tBxdg0BJVvvX02i3NPTSpGNzKP68s9sDnH25ajiweY2aXYTqsqeySHweg_Inqj1EOdx2wkzfFECJo-gE_Zg4HRe4cucCdrImJrZNRj9Z2lZzzoY9/s320/IMG_1594.HEIC" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is a lovely walk from Puerto Rico to one of my favourite beaches, Amadores.</div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRgglxKqydR9TewvtlEfAOBrk7nqThYZ7KHLIy3uUGuUeLwb_izuKjecdTE-46YQk8SbpexRRKLABxQn6HZU_eNb2p6Anu8qd40gpvy3uEv1vyKgQmyUwftNGXnH9RQVHLyALmGYfwf0toDXQ8ymwxIeOGZcEoEYOdSh5TncJg1ivea6LrUrB9gM0t/s4032/IMG_1570.HEIC" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRgglxKqydR9TewvtlEfAOBrk7nqThYZ7KHLIy3uUGuUeLwb_izuKjecdTE-46YQk8SbpexRRKLABxQn6HZU_eNb2p6Anu8qd40gpvy3uEv1vyKgQmyUwftNGXnH9RQVHLyALmGYfwf0toDXQ8ymwxIeOGZcEoEYOdSh5TncJg1ivea6LrUrB9gM0t/s320/IMG_1570.HEIC" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We clocked up around 20,000 steps each day as we tried to escape the building work going on less than 100m from our balcony.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But more of that next time.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-39921449731521214082023-02-28T16:36:00.003+00:002023-02-28T16:36:55.853+00:00Back to Blighty<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRU4T6weHESGTd_8wk4XVrzcdrMWp6397tmpwC7KVwY3mDIi8OkTuyXAE77MWrLfJKP1mlmJNMbx2ApKIKJYq1uFT_at9JKB55lX_owW4_qxeeTDcyuNZx1m_hOOcW7Ir6quzsoFdrP4l0gdvare0zHk6NFZbI_1JvqItfyoNSDzanUsw228mGMRNX/s3088/IMG_2920.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRU4T6weHESGTd_8wk4XVrzcdrMWp6397tmpwC7KVwY3mDIi8OkTuyXAE77MWrLfJKP1mlmJNMbx2ApKIKJYq1uFT_at9JKB55lX_owW4_qxeeTDcyuNZx1m_hOOcW7Ir6quzsoFdrP4l0gdvare0zHk6NFZbI_1JvqItfyoNSDzanUsw228mGMRNX/w300-h400/IMG_2920.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> We are back home after our holiday in the gorgeous Gran Canaria.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I had never been to the island before and couldn't believe it when days before we were due to fly off Vix wrote about her trip there too which you can see <a href="httphttps://vintagevixon.blogspot.com/2023/02/lazy-wednesdays.html://here.">here.</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While Vix stayed in the nothern part of the island, we opted for the sunny south as I was desperate for some sun.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">This was the first time my husband and I had been abroad on holiday together since 2019 and after a busy 12-15 months with two grandchildren arriving and a wedding we desperately needed some </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">R & R.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While sadly, our hotel didn't deliver on the promised peace and quiet, the island made up for it.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Today's outfit post is my final holiday outfit - the layering I needed to return from 23 C to 5C.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It started with my Commando faux leather leggings and a River Island Tshirt that I bought on Vinted for £3 and it came with tags still attached.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Ls5E9Zz1uDnjDiRlogLYh3_2E7wX5LlHYYIJg0h0G-ZwLghJJaf6OgHRCnQu-VFUrzX3CFUYUrYkVCjr2JhHO6cxD4cshaxnlKvN0wsgD8dRduAc6Q3N3wLTEoLDnPfHUsZ2oq-hUKIxkCUHRRfa4U6sNj6TbYrEk53eAbbAYwfiOLDFOPZyffAo/s3088/IMG_2938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Ls5E9Zz1uDnjDiRlogLYh3_2E7wX5LlHYYIJg0h0G-ZwLghJJaf6OgHRCnQu-VFUrzX3CFUYUrYkVCjr2JhHO6cxD4cshaxnlKvN0wsgD8dRduAc6Q3N3wLTEoLDnPfHUsZ2oq-hUKIxkCUHRRfa4U6sNj6TbYrEk53eAbbAYwfiOLDFOPZyffAo/w300-h400/IMG_2938.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The New Balance trainers were a birthday present and the hat I bought from a local supermarket the night we arrived for 9 Euros.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs3BxumIo6K9G3nEFI8PAb6Gqmqcgwo8bXK5_CvTdxB7gaHbnqcGJEeLepb1xW3aHAciwoJymGx8rkvXHTbj3xG8RVM5AvKzhc3u7N0m5bYUooWfya06hhqTJFS9TEBaO6Or6NjyFUvkkBP_khawL4Y1GtwXsxnTX8UsqnbnO6Ulb3TWhMgx0i3ndH/s2849/IMG_2892.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2849" data-original-width="2137" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs3BxumIo6K9G3nEFI8PAb6Gqmqcgwo8bXK5_CvTdxB7gaHbnqcGJEeLepb1xW3aHAciwoJymGx8rkvXHTbj3xG8RVM5AvKzhc3u7N0m5bYUooWfya06hhqTJFS9TEBaO6Or6NjyFUvkkBP_khawL4Y1GtwXsxnTX8UsqnbnO6Ulb3TWhMgx0i3ndH/w300-h400/IMG_2892.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">The virgin wool dress is by Isabel Marant and I bought it second hand from a fellow blogger. The bag is old from Zara.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And the poncho is from Monsoon which was reduced from £50 to £15 in the sale and was perfect for those chilly evenings.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I will return to the beginning tomorrow but for now Adios.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><p><br /></p></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-23566324168513328672023-02-07T07:03:00.002+00:002023-02-07T07:03:21.000+00:00Desperately Seeking A Sailor (Top)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvsqHW-epQNuYvwlz1NiTyMkyaFSOfCQs4TeER2hskW4SGf0FPGEhInWLOaAcblx0DnOyqP94Jm8nWoPcskBmEJRE3Jfl1bEZ6PrMwtHaSa0iqTzeddPrm8HkI7vMMg1cnfPolkiuYKy3O1Y_eTjz5efiqgwGo19ofJywyLv-MZRO1ZOmrm8HHWIPv/s1800/C3EB4538-8A0A-4094-8D0B-68F19F351FE1%20(2).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvsqHW-epQNuYvwlz1NiTyMkyaFSOfCQs4TeER2hskW4SGf0FPGEhInWLOaAcblx0DnOyqP94Jm8nWoPcskBmEJRE3Jfl1bEZ6PrMwtHaSa0iqTzeddPrm8HkI7vMMg1cnfPolkiuYKy3O1Y_eTjz5efiqgwGo19ofJywyLv-MZRO1ZOmrm8HHWIPv/w320-h400/C3EB4538-8A0A-4094-8D0B-68F19F351FE1%20(2).jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Ah the Breton Top or to give it the correct name, The Mariniere.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I can't tell you when my love affair with the hunble striped top began but as you can see from the photograph below, the closest I came to finding the perefect one for me was back in the late 1980s.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">You can barely see the stripes on the top below in my photo with Ollie the dog but this was the closest I came to finding the One.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was a a heavy knit and I bought it from the back pages of a Sunday newspaper.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I wore it with everything including these green short dungarees!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But I have no idea what happened to it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I only know I have never come close to my Mariniere until this week when I fell in love all over again.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But why is this simple striped top such a fashion icon?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I could give you my regurgitated account but there is a better history <a href="https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-history-of-the-breton-shirt-from-sailors-to-chanel">here.</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFoBJhm8D_EMyIf25qSsYYZW8ltd282wxNcqnLb83cTMwbYfMxasbvifmyklTtg7hYrgqfrSju6g5ERz_XGLMX_6cPC8pC4oS7W4ko35qob2l6vYVTMElkbGobGe4sWb1vdDMezY7x8kCV-XJoqdjmSyKrb89VJxlCnpJxpnSc5rcWpmh4Ndztc45P/s2062/IMG_1353.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2062" data-original-width="1847" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFoBJhm8D_EMyIf25qSsYYZW8ltd282wxNcqnLb83cTMwbYfMxasbvifmyklTtg7hYrgqfrSju6g5ERz_XGLMX_6cPC8pC4oS7W4ko35qob2l6vYVTMElkbGobGe4sWb1vdDMezY7x8kCV-XJoqdjmSyKrb89VJxlCnpJxpnSc5rcWpmh4Ndztc45P/w359-h400/IMG_1353.jpeg" width="359" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As you can see here, my love of stripes was not limited to navy blue, this was a lovely green and I looked like an advert for a striped mint that was peopular in the 1980s when this photo was taken.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWDj8_ki8gdYiPAEkVKTHcP-LQCIExDYkIvjOxO5AkhjXJCRPRt55FEYXSRoR1ow13bgjZqEqcKFh4jxQaWIKjOc9M82jMYonOvUrl1x6U3X7jtvBd_ZnoAqy38eZVn8wOqfKnWLKOIDj2YU-q571dlbYWfoA0IdbpPePQhAdrif1Imno_LQyNysi0/s3024/IMG_1351.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2430" data-original-width="3024" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWDj8_ki8gdYiPAEkVKTHcP-LQCIExDYkIvjOxO5AkhjXJCRPRt55FEYXSRoR1ow13bgjZqEqcKFh4jxQaWIKjOc9M82jMYonOvUrl1x6U3X7jtvBd_ZnoAqy38eZVn8wOqfKnWLKOIDj2YU-q571dlbYWfoA0IdbpPePQhAdrif1Imno_LQyNysi0/w400-h321/IMG_1351.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I have searched high and low for a replacement Breton and came close</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I came close <a href="http://thesmallfabricofmylife.blogspot.com/2021/04/breton-bull-dog.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And <a href="http://thesmallfabricofmylife.blogspot.com/2013/05/breton-boden.html">here </a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But I never found the weight and style I loved until last week when I found <a href="https://www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/product/striped-long-sleeved-t-shirt-455726.html?dwvar_455726_color=COL01">this Uniqlo one </a>and ordered it straight away.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It is not often I buy new clothes now but I will cherish this one for as long as it lasts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBno4hyZ7sFFS3kK44xnGzye4w1zlpSKy1fypjQw274UDWDKdIQwlMimisdJZY93Lbap0QkclyuS_tXNhphGbdz1LPd6gkUgCxtFaYAykvyWuBTNc9CnFmu0jpqLbG53_Bg7W3TODbOCLCQf6a_hkieDGsn_aWp1h5RKQdXWcHgaxcxZKeLDMkT8Hy/s1800/FF2FF5AA-3C2D-40A8-BDC3-8899B8A478F5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBno4hyZ7sFFS3kK44xnGzye4w1zlpSKy1fypjQw274UDWDKdIQwlMimisdJZY93Lbap0QkclyuS_tXNhphGbdz1LPd6gkUgCxtFaYAykvyWuBTNc9CnFmu0jpqLbG53_Bg7W3TODbOCLCQf6a_hkieDGsn_aWp1h5RKQdXWcHgaxcxZKeLDMkT8Hy/w320-h400/FF2FF5AA-3C2D-40A8-BDC3-8899B8A478F5.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Now I prefer to wear it with faux leather leggings but who knows where this love affair will lead.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am off to Gran Canaria for a little while.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">See you on the other side.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div><br /></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-37975870170951135862022-12-16T15:22:00.007+00:002022-12-16T15:44:46.427+00:00Plaid Friday<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsi72imfTzcd-tKXlbO90dUO3i9dInuCTObX0d5D_G_ksd1oLCX_AhFg1Rcx9H1bMsEjcQ_2LQpVKusulstwo3tzZwnv84giqf3iBb7P1H36_dex2jPxdeLteiFKeHPQx1gkJNV6zLLbQEDVVygRT4UrLU78W6yttFvo6_MO4rJVsDlf2AWY8axvH/s2725/IMG_8867.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2725" data-original-width="2043" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAsi72imfTzcd-tKXlbO90dUO3i9dInuCTObX0d5D_G_ksd1oLCX_AhFg1Rcx9H1bMsEjcQ_2LQpVKusulstwo3tzZwnv84giqf3iBb7P1H36_dex2jPxdeLteiFKeHPQx1gkJNV6zLLbQEDVVygRT4UrLU78W6yttFvo6_MO4rJVsDlf2AWY8axvH/w300-h400/IMG_8867.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">According to the news, today is Mad Friday.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But I have decided for me it's going to be Plaid Friday.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I love this red Zara dress that I picked up from Vinted last year.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I adore the pattern, the colour and crucially, the fact that you can fit four layers underneath too.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLKQ3pMQyxCF9_q4XSF7uhuX1gBsdSaattKDL0Ub2mB5vfqe97mseXP-P64ov-HCO3OAuvebIGUg7cpjosH6AjtvnVO3roQq1PInYbqiSjZry41hrMrsLN1Y5JFsdW4FotQPwmUAKOYwCvY5BClz1vyz0xp7upvJWbvXaF0_Jf5X_5ixLLvldKEB9y/s1800/233DF5D5-0E16-414E-A99F-05B15706FB62.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLKQ3pMQyxCF9_q4XSF7uhuX1gBsdSaattKDL0Ub2mB5vfqe97mseXP-P64ov-HCO3OAuvebIGUg7cpjosH6AjtvnVO3roQq1PInYbqiSjZry41hrMrsLN1Y5JFsdW4FotQPwmUAKOYwCvY5BClz1vyz0xp7upvJWbvXaF0_Jf5X_5ixLLvldKEB9y/w512-h640/233DF5D5-0E16-414E-A99F-05B15706FB62.jpeg" width="512" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was another chilly start this morning but I was out and about meeting up with friends after finishing teaching for the year yesterday.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">First, I met my friend Pauline for a chat before driving off to my alma mater, Edge Hill University.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My friend Lisa works there now and we met up for a coffee on the campus which is a beautiful setting especially on a frosty morning.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I first visited Edge Hill University in 1973 when my mum's cousin was studying teaching there.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In 2010 I enrolled as a student for a year when I studied for my own teaching certificate - a PGCE English.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While I hated most of my teaching placements, I loved being on campus.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I thoroughly enjoyed the visit today.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was a lovely atmosphere as it was the students' last day before the Christmas break.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I remember saying to a friend once that what I loved about working in education was the rhythms of the year.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">She rather cynically replied 'you just love the holidays.'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBo6CGVXy0jDSbu44UZ9u9f7eCEeaa1VgS5oF_uuTEul6DIDO8i4jleF7AdavsclY-jLq2nXUBhH6Umy8lsXDxJNA_qWDtUUzNrPCgvwYjClfdTqcmVNp308-p0FW06tMJnK5hqE5pWBUAOZlVCrTpi1aKjM9DYhmd7Jr2z8aYLosBeazbria2XGdI/s4032/IMG_8907.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBo6CGVXy0jDSbu44UZ9u9f7eCEeaa1VgS5oF_uuTEul6DIDO8i4jleF7AdavsclY-jLq2nXUBhH6Umy8lsXDxJNA_qWDtUUzNrPCgvwYjClfdTqcmVNp308-p0FW06tMJnK5hqE5pWBUAOZlVCrTpi1aKjM9DYhmd7Jr2z8aYLosBeazbria2XGdI/w480-h640/IMG_8907.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After a coffee and catch up we strolled around the campus.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I can't believe it is 11 years since I was a student here.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I hope it's not too long until I return again.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK1ZI3Vrb-zjYQfS7NHENphlpMw0QitKofzkqqdLG-XM3S7rCg1JtnbczWFSQtxfa2HF6t4Ar02DHY5TB7pHrev5h_T-rQ9Aux-9aZ2gc2x_Bbxn7G0kT3C7o_cvldCZLM7B_ZeIdexraHNJooELQkhroHFqqoFkOCclTcTqq_gGC1tEWy6BZdUgx/s4032/IMG_8912.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK1ZI3Vrb-zjYQfS7NHENphlpMw0QitKofzkqqdLG-XM3S7rCg1JtnbczWFSQtxfa2HF6t4Ar02DHY5TB7pHrev5h_T-rQ9Aux-9aZ2gc2x_Bbxn7G0kT3C7o_cvldCZLM7B_ZeIdexraHNJooELQkhroHFqqoFkOCclTcTqq_gGC1tEWy6BZdUgx/w300-h400/IMG_8912.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Back home now and I am going to curl up on the sofa with a couple of dogs, a hot vimto and my (sort of) campus based novel, Ghosted.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Have a lovely weekend.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Boots - New Look</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Dress - Zara via Vinted</span></div><br /><p><br /></p>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-3441271076654388042022-10-26T14:38:00.001+00:002022-12-16T15:47:48.230+00:00Rainbows, Rivers and Light<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilkqoHC7zQGyhMT9__uOPc2xf-NMERNH_g6VF8MbNxeI4-BZ-RAh6WewuXpx8FZL8SZ8d7bRxfbZG07H4CyD5XLafwQUXfCREQmeKiLisNi1cB5dhrDPf6XrSTM-aDI8RLHa0AV3BjVls0Pglt1aEYI58DfW7OCKpfsvInVk5gL2hIKESGbIXl6L9n/s4032/IMG_6990.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilkqoHC7zQGyhMT9__uOPc2xf-NMERNH_g6VF8MbNxeI4-BZ-RAh6WewuXpx8FZL8SZ8d7bRxfbZG07H4CyD5XLafwQUXfCREQmeKiLisNi1cB5dhrDPf6XrSTM-aDI8RLHa0AV3BjVls0Pglt1aEYI58DfW7OCKpfsvInVk5gL2hIKESGbIXl6L9n/w480-h640/IMG_6990.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">A half family day out with two of my four children, my husband, daughter in law, mum and my two grandchildren, Heidi and Mason.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was half-term and we decided to visit Speke Hall before meeting up with Briony's husband in Liverpool later.</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2aElF6m7YSXnGOsn-KJ0bPFg4-Ceo48nkaJZQ91AMKeArhZItqPLLz66elKPYubZcXP4YUSD0uxFLMBqpXShZqi6NV_uy20w4BP4iZ1YEO06sjR4-SGmK0SDokc-R-_R0ep43P2ANqdaAH5KrWnH61yVB0Bmh9b9VE_kWqjOOUv-pxcOdcTrM73xs/s4032/IMG_6983.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2aElF6m7YSXnGOsn-KJ0bPFg4-Ceo48nkaJZQ91AMKeArhZItqPLLz66elKPYubZcXP4YUSD0uxFLMBqpXShZqi6NV_uy20w4BP4iZ1YEO06sjR4-SGmK0SDokc-R-_R0ep43P2ANqdaAH5KrWnH61yVB0Bmh9b9VE_kWqjOOUv-pxcOdcTrM73xs/w480-h640/IMG_6983.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was very wet although there was a beautiful rainbow to enjoy.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Not that the weather stopped Mason and Heidi enjoying the entertainment in the Great Hall.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlQ11xm9sNEU_GCBmi5qKHIgxdVRjgW7qBJjgUIpl_xkCuFFIRj5r3qTol1XCwatqVMZV0lhfq2CZcHLxM6k2LzCS1iX9UK5UeHsyQIG5UFEdQQK6MfGkjz3ZWqeUvZ-W4-SkSsmBUZKix-m-WxzTgeE0gHCV2HwLwmuEpE9_wJfuQQQRKpxvBaAO/s4032/IMG_6994.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJlQ11xm9sNEU_GCBmi5qKHIgxdVRjgW7qBJjgUIpl_xkCuFFIRj5r3qTol1XCwatqVMZV0lhfq2CZcHLxM6k2LzCS1iX9UK5UeHsyQIG5UFEdQQK6MfGkjz3ZWqeUvZ-W4-SkSsmBUZKix-m-WxzTgeE0gHCV2HwLwmuEpE9_wJfuQQQRKpxvBaAO/w480-h640/IMG_6994.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I couldn't resist snapping this shot of my husband, Paul, who happened to do his musing just below the antlers.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiiqyo4VtQhe3veJIfPj3Hybfa1fr15e7Nm5ACTrfVzP_Yo_lKbW6vDxdbJFieap34fTO4S4TFU9AXTJtaE7-bOFEFX01cMoHJBzyfyDRLM1_HxHDYDzxdG5thFycvG5vFGbOivmA53RhhbRI1N69aHkK0VYRGPcX7xVxYiPrrXgfyuTCBNe8OAuc8/s4032/IMG_6995.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2447" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiiqyo4VtQhe3veJIfPj3Hybfa1fr15e7Nm5ACTrfVzP_Yo_lKbW6vDxdbJFieap34fTO4S4TFU9AXTJtaE7-bOFEFX01cMoHJBzyfyDRLM1_HxHDYDzxdG5thFycvG5vFGbOivmA53RhhbRI1N69aHkK0VYRGPcX7xVxYiPrrXgfyuTCBNe8OAuc8/w388-h640/IMG_6995.jpeg" width="388" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We arrived in Liverpool city centre about 5pm and got the last table at Duke Street market where we all enjoyed our favourite foods.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8cYK7HYlyOoeXYyujm2r_M44rYCJDftGp5Y1l21-CrIXbBsVXJyd_wauNJvIEDz29wmGHfBgdP_o8ptvyfjWaa4bPvh57xZKsKITxLXDmESOFVI4TlpR-3wkdkfiQKnzX3BtmLvEGz7fSmCGdpuweZMPsnSw2rL5J0AJABjp9L6op1pxTe8Xlq-YB/s4032/IMG_7001.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8cYK7HYlyOoeXYyujm2r_M44rYCJDftGp5Y1l21-CrIXbBsVXJyd_wauNJvIEDz29wmGHfBgdP_o8ptvyfjWaa4bPvh57xZKsKITxLXDmESOFVI4TlpR-3wkdkfiQKnzX3BtmLvEGz7fSmCGdpuweZMPsnSw2rL5J0AJABjp9L6op1pxTe8Xlq-YB/w480-h640/IMG_7001.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We left a long queue snaking outside Duke Street Market and headed towards the waterfront for the 2km light show, The River of Light - a series of light inspired installations.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The children loved it and judging by the crowds so did half of Liverpool. It was heaving.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIhPlesclf09mpBlEuGelhFCYrk9cqSeeuEPnac4o2TZr9LRXd2SsWx0LW2N5289Smi5brVKDRx5mHHmzgob5DCRuqtZLT8F4iD_9EhFgJWJd-pmYzQuu1rsBgmogTVwVeMm3RUmTsKmLT31c9IBt3j1d1UshOFPdLz9vjbCN1IbiyLot9L6XKWDR/s4032/IMG_7006.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIhPlesclf09mpBlEuGelhFCYrk9cqSeeuEPnac4o2TZr9LRXd2SsWx0LW2N5289Smi5brVKDRx5mHHmzgob5DCRuqtZLT8F4iD_9EhFgJWJd-pmYzQuu1rsBgmogTVwVeMm3RUmTsKmLT31c9IBt3j1d1UshOFPdLz9vjbCN1IbiyLot9L6XKWDR/w480-h640/IMG_7006.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was such a lovely thing to do in the autumn evening.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Not very often you get free family entertainment in this day and age but it was wonderful.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS6e5pSEZWDIQ_wB_5feAbN4r2WlJl-0LYj_H9WxxImSIbE4diPQxq4KkF10cyazbNuFiBDcFg5BUvdzVQj84eIfwU_HECXNoBqi8XL1aaC1J43rXo-5ez29kDDF-1P9o_S2gWXg9NMwN1bALc_YzMXsrRbaRuuWoOMbrquw2u7l0JbGxkQaF5TQo/s4032/IMG_7012.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS6e5pSEZWDIQ_wB_5feAbN4r2WlJl-0LYj_H9WxxImSIbE4diPQxq4KkF10cyazbNuFiBDcFg5BUvdzVQj84eIfwU_HECXNoBqi8XL1aaC1J43rXo-5ez29kDDF-1P9o_S2gWXg9NMwN1bALc_YzMXsrRbaRuuWoOMbrquw2u7l0JbGxkQaF5TQo/w480-h640/IMG_7012.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Heidi couldn't get enough of the light show.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-AxRkFV24Vg1wkRTb104VAEA4cnNyHEsdpdrEuAi6yiZq3vtKizGxM7ki2iH9PN9Fz3tO3Qs92qmx6FlXfsxBtwWTLX7nfLwtM3eV2TD7GsWPKEvG-B9U1XzlJOxMGy3m2y9UMBnTY2FQZKCW_-8GwuEF06pDyltrQB4gxTBdFTHfcrGmrKtd5_x/s4032/IMG_7010.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-AxRkFV24Vg1wkRTb104VAEA4cnNyHEsdpdrEuAi6yiZq3vtKizGxM7ki2iH9PN9Fz3tO3Qs92qmx6FlXfsxBtwWTLX7nfLwtM3eV2TD7GsWPKEvG-B9U1XzlJOxMGy3m2y9UMBnTY2FQZKCW_-8GwuEF06pDyltrQB4gxTBdFTHfcrGmrKtd5_x/w480-h640/IMG_7010.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; 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font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We were all home by 9pm filled up with good food and more happy memories.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-39317532114260852002022-10-11T15:22:00.002+00:002022-10-11T15:23:42.649+00:00A Walk on the Wildside<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRZu7I_9TaPNjPmVj-CaTojOmqA_H7fhC3yT2Ssxwp-180tqfi_QhEvm3zeBLGcCVE7IxcW-nYWZuuf_AP5PSOMxTKJB_MxmmlFauV6f4a_Qm5v7KL4aF7cQlbnubxgV_UhJKoZLUrBipE2NO5UAcEhMdLilgmImDRYYoDpDYrwqOTNriVHSXPVn2l/s3088/IMG_4193.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRZu7I_9TaPNjPmVj-CaTojOmqA_H7fhC3yT2Ssxwp-180tqfi_QhEvm3zeBLGcCVE7IxcW-nYWZuuf_AP5PSOMxTKJB_MxmmlFauV6f4a_Qm5v7KL4aF7cQlbnubxgV_UhJKoZLUrBipE2NO5UAcEhMdLilgmImDRYYoDpDYrwqOTNriVHSXPVn2l/w300-h400/IMG_4193.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">When I was 18 I briefly went out with a DJ on our local radio station, Radio Piccadilly in Manchester.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">He had gone to the same sixth form college as me. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I was a first year and he was a third year and we met in a drama production.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Every morning when he was covering the early morning show he would play Walk on the Wild Side for me.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">That was in 1984 and I have loved walking on the wild side ever since.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Especially if that wild side has a coastal view.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As part of our plan to eventually walk the rugged Anglesey Coastal Path my husband, myself and our two close friends Denise and Kev decamped to Newborough for three nights to cover yet another section.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Our previous efforts were documented <a href="http://thesmallfabricofmylife.blogspot.com/2021/06/walking-anglesey-coastal-path-or-how-to.html">here</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAfz2Ne4A3XrBFYQMgnX81ZSzaVFPx_j4KkuQnUvdZWgt5fW5aN_PY2TYb4n3pAhiXcWm2m9wTd5okz9PFTynDIFi5zdymw1FCh5go6OaglGAChGeJAA8Ob-XaxQTiHG8HuDYEex7GRneda0QExFo5tDiv72O_RmK1N8N7bbUQAUw7FoMwERJgViLy/s1024/IMG_6234.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAfz2Ne4A3XrBFYQMgnX81ZSzaVFPx_j4KkuQnUvdZWgt5fW5aN_PY2TYb4n3pAhiXcWm2m9wTd5okz9PFTynDIFi5zdymw1FCh5go6OaglGAChGeJAA8Ob-XaxQTiHG8HuDYEex7GRneda0QExFo5tDiv72O_RmK1N8N7bbUQAUw7FoMwERJgViLy/w400-h400/IMG_6234.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Day One started at Newborough beach and we walked along the sands to the ruins of the memorial to the Welsh equivalent of St Valentine - St Dwynwen.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">St Dwynwen is the patron saint of lovers and lived in the 5th century, her day is celebrated on January 25th.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">You can find out more about her <a href="https://www.visitwales.com/info/history-heritage-and-traditions/st-dwynwens-day">here.</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn3Q0YiGYInFZ3973kgfPWwkH1T4S9iRiUqLSSqvShqHlkF1FdkOkwNGkyz8-ssaRab5stTBlYP8eaM9eLc_aFBkTBfooYqBtV1XzRLa6G6yYwBaa1mRxpr2PRukHCVcoNK_iHF9Caj8UbJbTkCiYrUNDc9kCB4ZtWCPnnt7ULv4V2OGLCqXukviYH/s1024/IMG_6235.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn3Q0YiGYInFZ3973kgfPWwkH1T4S9iRiUqLSSqvShqHlkF1FdkOkwNGkyz8-ssaRab5stTBlYP8eaM9eLc_aFBkTBfooYqBtV1XzRLa6G6yYwBaa1mRxpr2PRukHCVcoNK_iHF9Caj8UbJbTkCiYrUNDc9kCB4ZtWCPnnt7ULv4V2OGLCqXukviYH/w640-h640/IMG_6235.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Day Two and Liverpool were playing so the boys watched the game in Beaumaris while Denise and I had a mooch around the shops and a quanit little garden centre.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After lunch we walked from the village with the longest name in Wales </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">( shortened to Llanfair PG) which took in both of the Menai Bridges.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Along the way we came across Church Island and a gorgeous little church that dates back to the fifteenth century.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9wG_31JNaVT2603TmHxQi5sJdk5IXg7jEm3E3_0lGFto06Crcx5y4dH-Rl2yjfah_PFEGPm_Q-mgRJbda2uF25N__o7t5-bl7FsjBI1TaDenG9F5hTRERLQHGZCnnsP2PZ_0eYJapkzgo7g4zIdDJSnBZY_-KD0B6fqOkwaIDHCkTe0EhkaDyrPa/s1024/IMG_6236.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio9wG_31JNaVT2603TmHxQi5sJdk5IXg7jEm3E3_0lGFto06Crcx5y4dH-Rl2yjfah_PFEGPm_Q-mgRJbda2uF25N__o7t5-bl7FsjBI1TaDenG9F5hTRERLQHGZCnnsP2PZ_0eYJapkzgo7g4zIdDJSnBZY_-KD0B6fqOkwaIDHCkTe0EhkaDyrPa/w640-h640/IMG_6236.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">Day Three and by far the hottest day where we walked along South Stack near Holyhead and saw a group of dolphins swimming close to the shore.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsvAJyHNslGUZlapb5ZWKIXmqAdezV5xgEhzeGtW7FzyGdPdkmeaNyvLs5K0rjTKCj_hyudpPB_BK4yRYMJp6kmQX7fSTCKNr4eju8ygiD6bAtom01VORQzeG1qp6nohGnApP5cbp4F9gJXP8TJum-k_8tzx_5uOTYLTlxgy7skHG-JCCInwOFtrs/s1024/IMG_6237.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDsvAJyHNslGUZlapb5ZWKIXmqAdezV5xgEhzeGtW7FzyGdPdkmeaNyvLs5K0rjTKCj_hyudpPB_BK4yRYMJp6kmQX7fSTCKNr4eju8ygiD6bAtom01VORQzeG1qp6nohGnApP5cbp4F9gJXP8TJum-k_8tzx_5uOTYLTlxgy7skHG-JCCInwOFtrs/w640-h640/IMG_6237.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Day Four and our final day was a few miles along the coast from Aberffraw.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It is the most beautiful coastal path to walk and I am determined not to rush.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I want to savour every inch.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Sadly, the relationship with the DJ didn't last long but my love of walking on the wild side has stayed with me forever.</span></p><p><br /></p></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-13446539971408829342022-08-18T16:40:00.010+00:002022-08-18T16:49:32.211+00:00Nice Day For A White Wedding<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhkNeZOhWjaAG5nx49ILqMWYroWpNGF86P2H4y1Pa1mSeFfDRieJPY1CLkAk4HgDZ8cM4MWQ0vE_lArf25rFbPfgNvC4WtNA6p6Ufi4ZSvAGf5ssRK6DBZMK1EVo4edVatkshj570xhYnXV8LBvKEKpgEBI7GFspmRymIBrfXIvr1XM8-cZuXyzXI/s1169/IMG_1161.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1169" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhkNeZOhWjaAG5nx49ILqMWYroWpNGF86P2H4y1Pa1mSeFfDRieJPY1CLkAk4HgDZ8cM4MWQ0vE_lArf25rFbPfgNvC4WtNA6p6Ufi4ZSvAGf5ssRK6DBZMK1EVo4edVatkshj570xhYnXV8LBvKEKpgEBI7GFspmRymIBrfXIvr1XM8-cZuXyzXI/w400-h229/IMG_1161.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After two years of planning my beautiful Briony finally became a bride.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It was a wonderful wedding at Merrydale Manor in Knutsford.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzyQl3Wc0shQbbgEQ590ibh2myQmQRSRQEXhLiSAKKEwtN8_31N5jPjH-hruFnIeGS3o_DLrDQMMgUhjQVMdEzzXjDf70hxk0cDXxmq4uO5YWgPwj8czNxfxSyh07dMqa7Rvn0YRCn8XPynrL5nIuyJLnthWyvimTsmb9VbZRD_7RdIoK_9OllQ3yT/s992/BC8D3258-EC26-4791-94A8-1AED7452200E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzyQl3Wc0shQbbgEQ590ibh2myQmQRSRQEXhLiSAKKEwtN8_31N5jPjH-hruFnIeGS3o_DLrDQMMgUhjQVMdEzzXjDf70hxk0cDXxmq4uO5YWgPwj8czNxfxSyh07dMqa7Rvn0YRCn8XPynrL5nIuyJLnthWyvimTsmb9VbZRD_7RdIoK_9OllQ3yT/w300-h400/BC8D3258-EC26-4791-94A8-1AED7452200E.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I was a very proud mum.</div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaXs_7hWdu-15Ngmur6icfn0wMymE-p-S9_AWSynbArchmgPfDT5ZYMUV2XEdyFFbmAk9LadKuHEKCZJgfY5YslqLhv1ywxHdWqUNa9cr6QwZCU-0uRYTnIo5KAmaOdSLs2qjrHFZ-XwiizpsDCKdsQyF7W5YUAo06bNEcxXzv5r7ubTqfy4nbhz8H/s992/2CB2C27B-1CA5-459D-84C7-2702D8342689.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="992" data-original-width="744" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaXs_7hWdu-15Ngmur6icfn0wMymE-p-S9_AWSynbArchmgPfDT5ZYMUV2XEdyFFbmAk9LadKuHEKCZJgfY5YslqLhv1ywxHdWqUNa9cr6QwZCU-0uRYTnIo5KAmaOdSLs2qjrHFZ-XwiizpsDCKdsQyF7W5YUAo06bNEcxXzv5r7ubTqfy4nbhz8H/w300-h400/2CB2C27B-1CA5-459D-84C7-2702D8342689.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">The theme was Ivory and Gold and my dress was made by Liverpool designer Mark Melia.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Although I did find my shoes on VInted!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2SYh-8qd5l4q1SMJeqFQAdlOLOri3s97ioyJziiUgGzPny6nNqKDfGYS9K59WUkUUSoJcEGwdBHKxSFCu3EM2KocgcLtVPIq731olwNyVJ9uwv1O5E0DMJDJb_8HcN8Q9Dz31XIzj-WkhtlyPCDXCdhmpUu6C-fIZdCYEquZSOu3IBQaqpm9x59es/s2048/IMG_1233.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2SYh-8qd5l4q1SMJeqFQAdlOLOri3s97ioyJziiUgGzPny6nNqKDfGYS9K59WUkUUSoJcEGwdBHKxSFCu3EM2KocgcLtVPIq731olwNyVJ9uwv1O5E0DMJDJb_8HcN8Q9Dz31XIzj-WkhtlyPCDXCdhmpUu6C-fIZdCYEquZSOu3IBQaqpm9x59es/w400-h266/IMG_1233.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While the bride and groom took centre stage, Mason was star of the show and so good.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRJILyB1f8B9um6Fj_5y9aLfWdhZPmBH9ajTE9trWYnk9bCS7efhfzChDFKE5fKf1bNsIvZTEbgyYusp-gWDxuySk_6CLedYLE8S2OJTC7R1cktdSEc3C4SxQ6i20RrFSDOpqNkRz2zzNwk2x9HWaBZj6Bl4jSvB-vo2AIdrMqLdgdemMv7KFPmcX/s2048/IMG_1232.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRJILyB1f8B9um6Fj_5y9aLfWdhZPmBH9ajTE9trWYnk9bCS7efhfzChDFKE5fKf1bNsIvZTEbgyYusp-gWDxuySk_6CLedYLE8S2OJTC7R1cktdSEc3C4SxQ6i20RrFSDOpqNkRz2zzNwk2x9HWaBZj6Bl4jSvB-vo2AIdrMqLdgdemMv7KFPmcX/w400-h266/IMG_1232.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">A fabulous day was had by all and it was so lovely to see my four children together.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYGpKsdvYTtSFD3hWREACs090_qaBoGN6Fu5yAmwkE21Fzoeelg0hVSSZnnttCbwwbHVfp0gG2D2xne9GJ75JG2ib1ARotFCfT-m7uRmNaHPfJ3mquBJIWUtViBxih72-xdIjAc30B09Aca_M9cDzgEKLm-BlXYZYqse3KRNIdfbl6NgY-xXidxVe/s1024/e174373c-55e6-4285-9a0b-e8d3782af9f5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYGpKsdvYTtSFD3hWREACs090_qaBoGN6Fu5yAmwkE21Fzoeelg0hVSSZnnttCbwwbHVfp0gG2D2xne9GJ75JG2ib1ARotFCfT-m7uRmNaHPfJ3mquBJIWUtViBxih72-xdIjAc30B09Aca_M9cDzgEKLm-BlXYZYqse3KRNIdfbl6NgY-xXidxVe/w480-h640/e174373c-55e6-4285-9a0b-e8d3782af9f5.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My sons were groomsmen and my grandaughter, daughter in law and son's girlfriend were bridesmaids.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSqVvkJIfH6YiTWF-lbMb_Y_wMv0rv7L6GG7Xk9z7edMrhHtucKTfCLEWu5uMx8q7kZtiB1kLfN9DjkRWJtmdRwB0q4aL0HuAT1t-YWZ1u-Fq1FG0mC1TMC9KMSMh28hI4paLVcoAUWkuEwrEMZS81H50tYmbhkmkdswj_km3HAQBJJKtcR6D0Nq8l/s1964/f0aa791b-7f79-4480-abe9-696cafde1cec.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1307" data-original-width="1964" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSqVvkJIfH6YiTWF-lbMb_Y_wMv0rv7L6GG7Xk9z7edMrhHtucKTfCLEWu5uMx8q7kZtiB1kLfN9DjkRWJtmdRwB0q4aL0HuAT1t-YWZ1u-Fq1FG0mC1TMC9KMSMh28hI4paLVcoAUWkuEwrEMZS81H50tYmbhkmkdswj_km3HAQBJJKtcR6D0Nq8l/w400-h266/f0aa791b-7f79-4480-abe9-696cafde1cec.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWvW0t6BfARbND9mNVk6tcpyIHPIEol2sn1IKMRJ8xIrEdTIJNxTz6xikvY9S8TbYcXsHejsqsZqSroQJ7wjsGrmF0D4bykc8l3dA83wCgvm2nvUUdzrq-bvfetC3wLtZA17bTudXleMQi-8e9sBs2HQxMudEA5yJqtY6CqCsCm8JZZ1RIkrbhRuS3/s2048/IMG_1311.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWvW0t6BfARbND9mNVk6tcpyIHPIEol2sn1IKMRJ8xIrEdTIJNxTz6xikvY9S8TbYcXsHejsqsZqSroQJ7wjsGrmF0D4bykc8l3dA83wCgvm2nvUUdzrq-bvfetC3wLtZA17bTudXleMQi-8e9sBs2HQxMudEA5yJqtY6CqCsCm8JZZ1RIkrbhRuS3/w640-h429/IMG_1311.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Thank you to the amazing <a href="https://staceyoliverphotography.co.uk/">Stacey Olive</a>r for the professional photographs.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-31848678177608336582022-06-27T13:03:00.000+00:002022-06-27T13:03:04.357+00:00Confessions of a Hen Do: The Final Part<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA9dt8JsR2xKe7WKwqzpH4LlYnpicKD--U7LBvCM-ymOIBJr-NH83nO9fbWRBWB27M6CRnXN4_03cfAr-qy5Zhch3cP2rs84d_h8oY-AkADGT75aq8WqfBViVykYbKE8N93fS5gd6CtDcVinkhsiphrfzbZUFEaE3Hym2nwZSuQ4qb9CjQoj_j6du5/s4032/IMG_4523.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA9dt8JsR2xKe7WKwqzpH4LlYnpicKD--U7LBvCM-ymOIBJr-NH83nO9fbWRBWB27M6CRnXN4_03cfAr-qy5Zhch3cP2rs84d_h8oY-AkADGT75aq8WqfBViVykYbKE8N93fS5gd6CtDcVinkhsiphrfzbZUFEaE3Hym2nwZSuQ4qb9CjQoj_j6du5/w300-h400/IMG_4523.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">The cases are packed, the taxis are ready and after retrieving Linda's Chanel sungasses from the bottom of the pool the Hen Do is finally over.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">But not for me, my daughter and her mother in law to be as we meet up with Jordan, (her husband to be), the baby and her father in law to be.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Jordan's family have an apartment in nearby San Pedro and I have booked into a hotel nearby.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">My morning starts with a swim and book by the pool.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFGldZPTZUf7qRQOId34hixFFpf5dm1mhyxvsLEWexdjj8hkNxmKVyci-8cGRFp5FkOGXw09mtOHTw1R5reZnrr8kDakkGTBXJRf0QvUhxWYen_OCNHtaw4mBtOCucugTiByAq8I61RVhBeghU7xkKeeOaNyJQoj8JTyXT782zCTX6RFeI6_FrD_u0/s2048/ea9e0ed9-0486-4ac7-beee-bc31cae4956c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFGldZPTZUf7qRQOId34hixFFpf5dm1mhyxvsLEWexdjj8hkNxmKVyci-8cGRFp5FkOGXw09mtOHTw1R5reZnrr8kDakkGTBXJRf0QvUhxWYen_OCNHtaw4mBtOCucugTiByAq8I61RVhBeghU7xkKeeOaNyJQoj8JTyXT782zCTX6RFeI6_FrD_u0/w300-h400/ea9e0ed9-0486-4ac7-beee-bc31cae4956c.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">After brunch in the port we catch a boat to Marbella Old Town and enjoy a few drinks in this beautiful old square and dinner by the beach.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyJ2WOZz1qaFd_pNyAF76gqa8snIJrGRyMLyeDje-3RJn8wJN4ekFi4N_ari2pp1kbn2EkXdobO6VSOW4wgq3DvR2Az3dCfEo0SeP2WYCix9EcCsk8taH7u1ywNj5Z81RmFj5P7z3dYzDbIQr9Yukso5lr1kXlwHACQSSuqR-82OdMnJhdFD6c278w/s4032/IMG_4658.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyJ2WOZz1qaFd_pNyAF76gqa8snIJrGRyMLyeDje-3RJn8wJN4ekFi4N_ari2pp1kbn2EkXdobO6VSOW4wgq3DvR2Az3dCfEo0SeP2WYCix9EcCsk8taH7u1ywNj5Z81RmFj5P7z3dYzDbIQr9Yukso5lr1kXlwHACQSSuqR-82OdMnJhdFD6c278w/w300-h400/IMG_4658.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large;">The next day we visit a Beach Club and Mason enjoys a swim in the pool.</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">And all too soon it's over.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I have loved finally getting abroad for the first time in two and a half years and I have loved spending time with my daughter and her friends.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I think this will probably be my first and only Hen Holiday but what a Holiday it was.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Now its time to get ready for the wedding.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-22384606423675788582022-06-27T12:54:00.001+00:002022-06-27T12:54:11.831+00:00Confessions of a Hen Do; Part Four in which we get an indecent proposal<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jkJT1D4n2ZVAz_iY6X3JXZs7SsUOTfROl6E8l2IGUiKfHdKKBZNy0cf0eUn_rA5TygkqJKdr3hDg2a6y3vnLpvb1TOiyjzhuIqM41YFoXfZ-5-HgaWGOY8dBD2XhW6hEcuiTPTcRVeW6Fx3D_VqeBxSSexvsIJvjGU_eMOIDpR9uPe9cZrcm4nDL/s2877/IMG_4172%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jkJT1D4n2ZVAz_iY6X3JXZs7SsUOTfROl6E8l2IGUiKfHdKKBZNy0cf0eUn_rA5TygkqJKdr3hDg2a6y3vnLpvb1TOiyjzhuIqM41YFoXfZ-5-HgaWGOY8dBD2XhW6hEcuiTPTcRVeW6Fx3D_VqeBxSSexvsIJvjGU_eMOIDpR9uPe9cZrcm4nDL/s2877/IMG_4172%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2877" data-original-width="2158" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jkJT1D4n2ZVAz_iY6X3JXZs7SsUOTfROl6E8l2IGUiKfHdKKBZNy0cf0eUn_rA5TygkqJKdr3hDg2a6y3vnLpvb1TOiyjzhuIqM41YFoXfZ-5-HgaWGOY8dBD2XhW6hEcuiTPTcRVeW6Fx3D_VqeBxSSexvsIJvjGU_eMOIDpR9uPe9cZrcm4nDL/w300-h400/IMG_4172%20(1).jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">The final day of our Hen Do and it's a full day to appreciate this beautiful villa,.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">The theme is White and Gold.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">The Hens are in white and the bride to be in gold.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I went for my old Zara dress but almost everyone else was in beachwear.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFbJa7UurUU9GAVYN4moT9ajUcejglpwVBnl3cx7NVuhNeuaHMaXfFNYUyMb387W45RGv_3FUYFB-QEO0-Q6opfBGueN5u3pL6a8GGP7jzT_0wGzFMQKxw4pbW89aqLoN43HY4rUIfoTOP6LF5eYDrbO4o-tMdTVLzVFmsCE4CR0OIlcEp2h2ghB1E/s1024/IMG_4189.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFbJa7UurUU9GAVYN4moT9ajUcejglpwVBnl3cx7NVuhNeuaHMaXfFNYUyMb387W45RGv_3FUYFB-QEO0-Q6opfBGueN5u3pL6a8GGP7jzT_0wGzFMQKxw4pbW89aqLoN43HY4rUIfoTOP6LF5eYDrbO4o-tMdTVLzVFmsCE4CR0OIlcEp2h2ghB1E/w640-h640/IMG_4189.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Today its a real treat as two chefs arrive with pots, pans, plates and food to prepare a feast while the Butler in the Buff creates cocktails for us and a DJ plays some tunes.</span></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6A_JLYm9h8ayGARmO8u6IZWRyZs197GGi3rH6TWabL5oPNl1NEZnWgkHJz28iq3zXjK379cdjWUidzxtWnOfweRDEgk6KS-JEzbfdRzHpw__v8dfG2RfGx9Y2XzufVoJ43NtstvaFaiGn1xAmZkCVo4cE6gCiuYevKHDN8yRO1Nc374yIvofh7Q1i/s1024/80aa95cd-006b-40a3-b575-9034e61ae715.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaC9ljD-m-w9hdkZjG-nkhPKpF7GwX81I-VcYB85HiiE_hYwTn8BLH8vCP9KCGb_oOqelVJqdBZ9ZMY-EZeBLF2Uca0h-Tr2b1DBWJUA0YGSSRvUy83fgdQT5j2kCiYMrstTJZT8-XV8Tgf699kgniy3MbW0_tWsjH41LLRQp-huCIFEP05JnlcJ9c/s1024/80aa95cd-006b-40a3-b575-9034e61ae715.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaC9ljD-m-w9hdkZjG-nkhPKpF7GwX81I-VcYB85HiiE_hYwTn8BLH8vCP9KCGb_oOqelVJqdBZ9ZMY-EZeBLF2Uca0h-Tr2b1DBWJUA0YGSSRvUy83fgdQT5j2kCiYMrstTJZT8-XV8Tgf699kgniy3MbW0_tWsjH41LLRQp-huCIFEP05JnlcJ9c/s320/80aa95cd-006b-40a3-b575-9034e61ae715.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">After the food and drink there are party games organised by the matron of honour, my daughter in law, Sophie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUog1CYzA2cNiQ4xTc5-VH0ETP0KwO-J6b6_oU_WJ8hG5SfgiTm1RN_E2qFSRmRHjDQ9T-3ZVWnm1DPSID04oWTJxBVC82FAfpyiZmiPGeIiIXS09Vx26Xa_ieoxKCtH_EvuKhTvjmuJWy4lVZC-GQKMBN7LUhER_K12iuqeCdYX0DS20g2urXtJZu/s1600/4020384f-8445-4006-adaf-cfbd5e2dd6a0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUog1CYzA2cNiQ4xTc5-VH0ETP0KwO-J6b6_oU_WJ8hG5SfgiTm1RN_E2qFSRmRHjDQ9T-3ZVWnm1DPSID04oWTJxBVC82FAfpyiZmiPGeIiIXS09Vx26Xa_ieoxKCtH_EvuKhTvjmuJWy4lVZC-GQKMBN7LUhER_K12iuqeCdYX0DS20g2urXtJZu/s320/4020384f-8445-4006-adaf-cfbd5e2dd6a0.jpeg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">I couldn't quite get the hang of the balloon game.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyH1jgHMY0OQJ6XkBt9ZidjZP5x4C6XqA-u2lsMTmS0deZDBNY7Ywu4cZiLnV8PcIHGpCOFZMVGgsDGaqYt8g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">It all ended with two teams competing to make a wedding dress with toilet rolls.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ECEriiXdDxY" width="320" youtube-src-id="ECEriiXdDxY"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">And the indecent proposal?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">My daughter in law and my son Joe's girlfriend, Poppy, were seeing the butler out when he uttered the immortal words:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">'Fancy a quickie?'</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">Luckily they didn't!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;">At least I hope not.</span></p>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-63842730864952517512022-06-20T14:46:00.008+00:002022-06-20T14:50:19.882+00:00Confessions of a Hen Do: Part Three and the Beach Club<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RTce863ofscTJvdsxIAxk368CvVouFTLaSMqX7Rk9GxL3chsoPxMpZjYaOm7YnHKk5xfz7Wd4yBVkon8ATvsyZ8EfFVAPwmA3WcTtxRrDvKmUkiJVnBCE0OM0MjqqwwkhYJ809ShMJ6x7VeDBAzpmIFADrW9iDgGYPDBp8Sj4KSOEuI5SlOf3xW8/s3088/IMG_3877%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2316" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RTce863ofscTJvdsxIAxk368CvVouFTLaSMqX7Rk9GxL3chsoPxMpZjYaOm7YnHKk5xfz7Wd4yBVkon8ATvsyZ8EfFVAPwmA3WcTtxRrDvKmUkiJVnBCE0OM0MjqqwwkhYJ809ShMJ6x7VeDBAzpmIFADrW9iDgGYPDBp8Sj4KSOEuI5SlOf3xW8/w480-h640/IMG_3877%20(1).jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After a relatively early night and all that fresh air I sleep like a log and spend the morning lazing by the pool in my preloved Top Shop swimsuit and charity shop sarong.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As most of the girls are sleeping off the previous night's excess I get a chance to read my book The Black Dress by Deborah Moggarch which I am thoroughly enjoying.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqiiuliJLD7755Gje9tcQpLjM1m-eWXoPcD0y-3IxjKptTLTpWy65W7eJsGEG3LzbsIyvXXAK59NSTU0ZyurHwfuLfN_EYZUqAikr95uvKzRwfv5b6qzkuy0w2dvqFdHoqW9AAsuzvO9igoUWHodWbZBKk7djZjEzR3K9aTeXS6C6LjItkgYNOCdy/s3340/9AB37D8F-06F9-4D75-839A-840C196089DC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3340" data-original-width="2672" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqiiuliJLD7755Gje9tcQpLjM1m-eWXoPcD0y-3IxjKptTLTpWy65W7eJsGEG3LzbsIyvXXAK59NSTU0ZyurHwfuLfN_EYZUqAikr95uvKzRwfv5b6qzkuy0w2dvqFdHoqW9AAsuzvO9igoUWHodWbZBKk7djZjEzR3K9aTeXS6C6LjItkgYNOCdy/w512-h640/9AB37D8F-06F9-4D75-839A-840C196089DC.jpeg" width="512" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">By lunchtime we are getting ready for the Beach Club and a Champagne Spray whatever that it.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I decide to wear this Butter by Nadia multiway dress that I got from eBay and my old favourite Top Shop sandals.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="328" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SzOpWkTdIGw" width="577" youtube-src-id="SzOpWkTdIGw"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Before we go the matron of honour,my daughter in law, insists on a party game and Poppy (my son Joe's girlfriend proves to be a winner).</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVtGBJLgsK0nP5agFVw4sy38nXq9eHdMft8JFi9PdAor4YYkCL4KM7iYeJAJykwtlCYoVUzKHfhpxamhiT1sh4VNeF5DsJS42dXRAnQXRTCbXYGSLFnzifLTh-UmtiqjrcZ9fPdb2yYTYPC1i8Zex1aTMYo1d_htyveec_TrC7sKdwVdTiEQw2tlI/s1600/67cd82b9-54db-4c5b-9cc5-7e9aa3ce7c29.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVtGBJLgsK0nP5agFVw4sy38nXq9eHdMft8JFi9PdAor4YYkCL4KM7iYeJAJykwtlCYoVUzKHfhpxamhiT1sh4VNeF5DsJS42dXRAnQXRTCbXYGSLFnzifLTh-UmtiqjrcZ9fPdb2yYTYPC1i8Zex1aTMYo1d_htyveec_TrC7sKdwVdTiEQw2tlI/w300-h400/67cd82b9-54db-4c5b-9cc5-7e9aa3ce7c29.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Ocean Beach Club was, shall we say, an insight into how the other half lives.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The money wasted on spraying champagne was obscene.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And those ladies by the pool on the right provided most of the entertainment for the afternoon when they arrived en masse on a Stag Bed next to us.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> Although the show became x-rated as the afternoon progressed.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">One of our party couldn't resist copying their pose!!!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I wasn't sorry to leave and while the Hen Do is almost over I was looking forward to Day Four the most although there was an Indecent Proposal which I will tell you about next time.</span></p>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-37369017368696889982022-06-18T11:04:00.005+00:002022-06-18T11:12:06.423+00:00Confessions of a Hen Do: Part Two in which we escape<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDFwUSG52z6y_qtTez-r3FyuNfF-awaYe9Vlrw5kczOCNq7RLd-XYEqQ8PniYzuUswQnW9idc3KXnkQURkQQVxxwB58nsAbb-1Q-2AznKbW9RnqGuLacH-EOV0RewTV1lkWPxW8K5pulJvxMVgGHhz022DdYSgHPo1XqZJUV83B07cUgFWztkjLAc/s2747/IMG_4110.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2747" data-original-width="2060" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDFwUSG52z6y_qtTez-r3FyuNfF-awaYe9Vlrw5kczOCNq7RLd-XYEqQ8PniYzuUswQnW9idc3KXnkQURkQQVxxwB58nsAbb-1Q-2AznKbW9RnqGuLacH-EOV0RewTV1lkWPxW8K5pulJvxMVgGHhz022DdYSgHPo1XqZJUV83B07cUgFWztkjLAc/w480-h640/IMG_4110.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">No. It wasn't an accident or an illicit romance.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Just a plain row which prompted one hen to pack her bags and do a moonlit flit from the house.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">When everyone emerged the followng morning heads were in varying states of soreness and confusion about the events of the previous evening but there was no time to dwell as we were being picked up ay 11 for the boat trip.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As I was first up I enjoyed a couple of hours sunbathing and got the chance to wear my preloved white shorts that I'd bought from Vinted together with an anicent swimming costume.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcCcBFrXdyjmdddci5YQmyf8bMrREFf_lUR7f4f2dvDX2s10gEcq6pgse5CmNxVtX0CwHpARTxWpF1pVz27SGcd44VtOoW6dpbtwTDqg0qMuejJ3xuE4ngZ5WnUM_0H6uWb2Ns3lFU-I6u8hRS0vM9uX8Wn8fiRWKL2zW6i1qnYzzj3y9h04qlPkk1/s889/IMG_6306.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="741" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcCcBFrXdyjmdddci5YQmyf8bMrREFf_lUR7f4f2dvDX2s10gEcq6pgse5CmNxVtX0CwHpARTxWpF1pVz27SGcd44VtOoW6dpbtwTDqg0qMuejJ3xuE4ngZ5WnUM_0H6uWb2Ns3lFU-I6u8hRS0vM9uX8Wn8fiRWKL2zW6i1qnYzzj3y9h04qlPkk1/w534-h640/IMG_6306.jpg" width="534" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Then it was time for a quick change into this black crochet preloved New Look Dress and preloved Top Shop swimming costume.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The taxi arrived just in time and we were taken to Marbella port where we caught the boat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The dress code was black for us and white for my daughter.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwRRzCODyrY52Ulaxu1l2aL9OHIHyGzSkIgnuPY_hPFvMPOGzr1nTBRr-XDRD0N1baZ9I2WDIQiTJHrOndv7Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And what a fabulous day it was.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">For four hours we enjoyed drinking, dancing and sunbathing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">When I saw we, I mean most of us because three hens spent most of the trip lying down indoors with seasickness!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxo399BLINfxGLYLFyLSdVk1xXQ-XJHwSYm3HOA_bClC6kl0lrpvVhc8MUPNMOHX7H2b3nCoREd1usURptL69UP6ntmkICCTi0ouCYO_EvfEMRZdTV71xxv5DGpesmvNXIJYLLAzBTBznlRQdk295F4oOEfC93ytEHypEX6xqVzw6OV5yp6PMm8A4/s2048/789b3f9c-38f8-4477-96d3-852ee495553c.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxo399BLINfxGLYLFyLSdVk1xXQ-XJHwSYm3HOA_bClC6kl0lrpvVhc8MUPNMOHX7H2b3nCoREd1usURptL69UP6ntmkICCTi0ouCYO_EvfEMRZdTV71xxv5DGpesmvNXIJYLLAzBTBznlRQdk295F4oOEfC93ytEHypEX6xqVzw6OV5yp6PMm8A4/w480-h640/789b3f9c-38f8-4477-96d3-852ee495553c.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Briony enjoyed a Titanic moment with a mask of Jordan and she looked fabulous.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Just four short months ago she was four stone heavier after giving birth to baby Mason.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz4MxOxxFEuITwgk5sgYi7dxMiLoUXUJ0P0cWyIFgXWH3SyD4HT7cHs2rel_LaEXYRK5FouIl4Fj8TQU_jQnQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_8FzSg9Aaow44hwvNiX4g6KBlw8hghwV_wlIxyQlivHAtI9N1AF-bFQL9vnCoQqYyQ5oyQtOyrNET5ebVOBVDRxCYvXAUPSp6lYoMX1HbAb_bx5w7nrjfPDO0yS1sAtU6Za2VLRStRM03vOxqzM9P3uSdHa_7qhD2_zdwFDqDk8p1qXgvlQ5bF0x/s702/c84d5274-500c-4c8d-b0ea-2d70d0a4bf2e.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="702" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq_8FzSg9Aaow44hwvNiX4g6KBlw8hghwV_wlIxyQlivHAtI9N1AF-bFQL9vnCoQqYyQ5oyQtOyrNET5ebVOBVDRxCYvXAUPSp6lYoMX1HbAb_bx5w7nrjfPDO0yS1sAtU6Za2VLRStRM03vOxqzM9P3uSdHa_7qhD2_zdwFDqDk8p1qXgvlQ5bF0x/w640-h536/c84d5274-500c-4c8d-b0ea-2d70d0a4bf2e.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Time for a group shot.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA1FIz94_TjVtt0tOHTi9H5vJpUCkdFt2i-B_HWTwcxNu4n9FTRr9ufirg9TUgMx3_TyuNf_GOYDhnl4rZQ8He5rRq8WJomYCQphmkSfBgmnJf8CNKFuOm-tCAX8CcuZtaC9tEUw7aoKIgsEnlXN9ZmuM8e757FF0uZl-yeWpPHFV1bqSAoQVskByj/s2048/b7a7c507-0ae3-4079-885c-cfba145e7ba8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA1FIz94_TjVtt0tOHTi9H5vJpUCkdFt2i-B_HWTwcxNu4n9FTRr9ufirg9TUgMx3_TyuNf_GOYDhnl4rZQ8He5rRq8WJomYCQphmkSfBgmnJf8CNKFuOm-tCAX8CcuZtaC9tEUw7aoKIgsEnlXN9ZmuM8e757FF0uZl-yeWpPHFV1bqSAoQVskByj/w480-h640/b7a7c507-0ae3-4079-885c-cfba145e7ba8.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I managed one photo with my son Joe's girlfriend Poppy before she disappeared for the duration nursing her <strike>hangover</strike> seasickness!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After the boat trip we went into Puerto Banus for a couple of cocktails followed by a meal at a fabulous Italian restaurant in the port.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While most of the girls stayed on to party Briony, Sophie and me made our excuses and went back to the villa to enjoy a warm evening in the hot tub as we paced ourselves for the festivities to come the following day.</span></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-66408250819096577182022-06-14T08:31:00.007+00:002022-06-14T09:03:26.395+00:00Confessions of a Hen Do: Part One in which we lose a hen.<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVMY1QcW29GOSSHbZpS5CWaqZQZPrBCJkyXmXcQ1lVgFzxLanR80NeXeGistzTIy-_2XwHFHG_tJnVY_zDebYgyRlsgws1Q3q-4EORxtU5L2OJkVrWfcg6N-dEP3ZoeFNTWqpcuCI01uwN8pvsJ5LzJBtRAv89nmPU_8gxC9_6AXfEZT_idi17r_TF/s1600/01a0f717-ba6d-4fb7-b58c-088182316c0e.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVMY1QcW29GOSSHbZpS5CWaqZQZPrBCJkyXmXcQ1lVgFzxLanR80NeXeGistzTIy-_2XwHFHG_tJnVY_zDebYgyRlsgws1Q3q-4EORxtU5L2OJkVrWfcg6N-dEP3ZoeFNTWqpcuCI01uwN8pvsJ5LzJBtRAv89nmPU_8gxC9_6AXfEZT_idi17r_TF/w480-h640/01a0f717-ba6d-4fb7-b58c-088182316c0e.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So, the day finally dawns and here we are - all of us together for the first night only - more of that later.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But lets begin at the beginning.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">While hen party was originally used in the nineteenth century to describe a sedate gathering of women in the United States, it lost something in translation when it travelled to our shores at the beginning of the twentieth century.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The practice of women enjoying their last day of freedom before their wedding has something in part related to this female gathering but its also linked to the word 'honey' or 'hinnie' and has nothing to do with birds!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Modern women like my daughter now enjoy freedoms my grandmother's generation could never have dreamed about.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">She was a machinest at Burton's factory near Bolton and I remember her regaling us with tales of young women decorated in toilet rolls with L plates tied to their backs.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In those days women generally gave up work to get married.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Most female factory workers were either single or like my grandmother, widowed.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">One of the things that links the olden days (as my children refer to pre-1980s days) and today is that generally Hen parties were about taking the bride out of her comfort zone and nothing has changed there.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">So history lecture over lets turn the clock back to 2am on Friday May 27th when the alarm rings.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After a quick shower my son's girlfiend, Poppy, who lives with us drives us to my daughter's house and we pick another hen up on the way.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMuSWDstqBcF_0u24WRS7tadiqJqDQ-aX7Wz5tRhaL89sk2VPXGOwOGUfjckYwZ3P37YL3jndruJpCNflhwtLJym0uLasK9Bhp-YVif3SuXlqHxfj6uEncvqRGklV0vgC9nyi7G1zWT-eyRIC_Px7ZukeL9e5Y378OdhOx_v6oAhRWpSEDDznZh5xc/s1414/c94a98d8-a124-45f6-ab37-78a548b5bc56.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="842" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMuSWDstqBcF_0u24WRS7tadiqJqDQ-aX7Wz5tRhaL89sk2VPXGOwOGUfjckYwZ3P37YL3jndruJpCNflhwtLJym0uLasK9Bhp-YVif3SuXlqHxfj6uEncvqRGklV0vgC9nyi7G1zWT-eyRIC_Px7ZukeL9e5Y378OdhOx_v6oAhRWpSEDDznZh5xc/w239-h400/c94a98d8-a124-45f6-ab37-78a548b5bc56.jpeg" width="239" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After a 4am pick-up we enjoyed a glass of champagne in the taxi and arrive at Liverpool Airport.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">My daughter is nervous and excited. She has left her four month old baby in the capable hands of her fiance.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am also nervous and excited. I have never been on a Hen Holiday before.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I didn't have a Hen Do when I got married and the only Hen Do I had been on before was a rather sedate afternoon tea for the oldies when my daugher in law got married to my son in 2018.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am excited about the prospect of some sun and fun but nervous as I don't really know many of the others apart from my daughter, daughter in law and son's girlfiend.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I have met my future son in law's mum a handful of times and her friend I have met once.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Apart from that I don't really know anyone else.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">But as a former journalist I am used to being on the outside looking in.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqJsRCBUEoZmbxMVlin4U6v44Twz_a_C54cKv6c2SlFmbF81eK-_SVdXRGQxCuNnl3EIhxYTIfztP4IVr3LolSVPd1eq9R1m1rXsvYdqGMDEKvTlq5TvSNk5unj4O8I_qwsugBHntSk4WMr23SNCCAIWM4IcsjoNkJjilVGkBqiPAqdEU3BD8B6C-/s1600/69f41415-8cbd-429c-8ee3-21cc16051652.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1372" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqJsRCBUEoZmbxMVlin4U6v44Twz_a_C54cKv6c2SlFmbF81eK-_SVdXRGQxCuNnl3EIhxYTIfztP4IVr3LolSVPd1eq9R1m1rXsvYdqGMDEKvTlq5TvSNk5unj4O8I_qwsugBHntSk4WMr23SNCCAIWM4IcsjoNkJjilVGkBqiPAqdEU3BD8B6C-/w343-h400/69f41415-8cbd-429c-8ee3-21cc16051652.jpeg" width="343" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">We board the plane around 6am and the others are enjoying a drink or three while I sleep - you can see me sleeping through in the bottom right!.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdrWNyt5RAXevZTxG7gvCSRe_ytPT2BtmRney2I314LQTPea93QDtfYHLpx6cutA0b24Gip4jpva8as0_9wMgeWgfiDx47VciFkLpbp8ZFS9_GXOmcmj9yvFHwUo0rn0U1wKh_D35U90-BMIhwZV9FeWlEzLt83OaBxfD1rqfHs0x7C0Tp7RiusL1/s4032/IMG_3737.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdrWNyt5RAXevZTxG7gvCSRe_ytPT2BtmRney2I314LQTPea93QDtfYHLpx6cutA0b24Gip4jpva8as0_9wMgeWgfiDx47VciFkLpbp8ZFS9_GXOmcmj9yvFHwUo0rn0U1wKh_D35U90-BMIhwZV9FeWlEzLt83OaBxfD1rqfHs0x7C0Tp7RiusL1/w480-h640/IMG_3737.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">By the time we arrive in our fabulous villa in the Elviria Hills near Marbella I am fully recharged and enjoy some R & R with my daughter along with a few drinks.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWsjCw-Xafjx3sI0dQ0dD31vulywQCR-zOZjxivk0D0b8agxftYwJ2FBMR7AVT1CWGxuiZmvMmYUPZNuuxBS-jBGB6pdAWY9xapcnGS_bTARXHBjhO_UopTp5FAPl764xvikL3vY-1JI4y0PPH5WyIk86Iu_Rzo5D0plVOdTPS2AmI0gdwUMY49Vir/s1600/b8c41120-d3ff-49e8-a7d7-5c35051e77a7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWsjCw-Xafjx3sI0dQ0dD31vulywQCR-zOZjxivk0D0b8agxftYwJ2FBMR7AVT1CWGxuiZmvMmYUPZNuuxBS-jBGB6pdAWY9xapcnGS_bTARXHBjhO_UopTp5FAPl764xvikL3vY-1JI4y0PPH5WyIk86Iu_Rzo5D0plVOdTPS2AmI0gdwUMY49Vir/w360-h640/b8c41120-d3ff-49e8-a7d7-5c35051e77a7.jpeg" width="360" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">After we get ready, my daughter experieinces her first stride outside the comfort zone when the stripper arrives.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">You can see my toes curling in the foreground of this photo.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The evening ends at The Supper Club in Puerto Banus.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">12 of us leave but only 11 come back.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Find out why in my next post.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But until next time I will leave you with a tour of the villa.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LaI-0MM_VZI" width="320" youtube-src-id="LaI-0MM_VZI"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7068279478995366060.post-44007663281263257132022-05-26T08:00:00.001+00:002022-05-26T08:00:00.162+00:00Secondhand Stories: the travel one<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_7i7nH5ZaAOeqzctVJZ8OIInPQyf6eTFdt7j9h6DlbK1vSYy4w8Qmo3-ONSMCfyl2I6bYcafR73nwCCMI7P3RMZ9N_CluqwdbjvbhP6V11XiK0lfahA8Z7hIv8G4OTghXMlPPgIzZEsCiOtsg1R5aYKi3KMv4laW9ZBxWAdnkuna0gXyCKYS7BgF/s1024/IMG_3630.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_7i7nH5ZaAOeqzctVJZ8OIInPQyf6eTFdt7j9h6DlbK1vSYy4w8Qmo3-ONSMCfyl2I6bYcafR73nwCCMI7P3RMZ9N_CluqwdbjvbhP6V11XiK0lfahA8Z7hIv8G4OTghXMlPPgIzZEsCiOtsg1R5aYKi3KMv4laW9ZBxWAdnkuna0gXyCKYS7BgF/w400-h400/IMG_3630.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Today in our joint Second Hand Stories series, my blogging partner <a href="https://sarahlondonstyle.com/">Sarah London</a> and I will share out latest preloved finds.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And for me it has been all about the holiday wardobe.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am about to go on holiday abroad for the first time in nearly three years.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And for me the holiday begins by planning what I will wear.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuewu9qS-7JLS5r0w_uiPSiIeeKXTVzg4No_DdCAb1Xbcc6VGclgKWVkLLEDgErHyoSPQVo0gjx78c4xAkXCU3yTl0JKXD_dwktPZDvctBAVagJ82zA7T_5wqI8xWzOvFzBLvNFpc3jKhbTUu3YjQl5ocz_BQtgP4PMYfuy3aIGAt_M1tldE_6bwJs/s4032/IMG_3645.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuewu9qS-7JLS5r0w_uiPSiIeeKXTVzg4No_DdCAb1Xbcc6VGclgKWVkLLEDgErHyoSPQVo0gjx78c4xAkXCU3yTl0JKXD_dwktPZDvctBAVagJ82zA7T_5wqI8xWzOvFzBLvNFpc3jKhbTUu3YjQl5ocz_BQtgP4PMYfuy3aIGAt_M1tldE_6bwJs/w300-h400/IMG_3645.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I have a little notebook where I plan what I will take and also journal the trip too.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">This is an entry from March 2010.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I will be taking this book with me to Marbella tomorrow as we celebrate my daughter's Hen.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">As it is a Hen Do the days and events are planned out in detail, even down to colour themes: Black Day, White Party, Supper Club etc.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">It has made planning a lot easier and I was determined to take as much second-hand stuff as I could.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I also bought new items from the proceeds of my Vinted sale.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I have been scouring the preloved sites since January and I have found some great buys.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvRSZdXju4F5PAxFIRBRxkWtk3LmX1sFmA4hbEvoKS3DBoV7dwACAGr7SOq5k_qk6W7-JxQzhpSkKgq8yJ_OBm8cW8sZDxbWxojHUuuAGC_S8Z1xO7sDV1QDG62Uo4ko9e0tD7m3gx31DuHoi08tl0ZMpD1fEmNJtFezZCRJ8Ks4T0M48Fnt4GlZl8/s3495/IMG_3249.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3495" data-original-width="2825" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvRSZdXju4F5PAxFIRBRxkWtk3LmX1sFmA4hbEvoKS3DBoV7dwACAGr7SOq5k_qk6W7-JxQzhpSkKgq8yJ_OBm8cW8sZDxbWxojHUuuAGC_S8Z1xO7sDV1QDG62Uo4ko9e0tD7m3gx31DuHoi08tl0ZMpD1fEmNJtFezZCRJ8Ks4T0M48Fnt4GlZl8/w324-h400/IMG_3249.jpeg" width="324" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">About half of my holiday wardrobe is preloved and here are some of my favourites.</div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSS_SfXNbWblZqjNwFzYwp-dYGTw4wBLLn2NYdX4VopXONb_SgPE4nQ35MqptVlcy2_q2OTRQY0NaUBuFtYx_0aRDPqsWY84ZuXbOIlaiMQvyQSGut-fnCruzxj1cHv9T4V2qHLd6PcYY7adIFhJPxG1fGmgOYKqQPKKcWE3kyYINnFbl6dTsdbSMh/s2048/IMG_2985.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSS_SfXNbWblZqjNwFzYwp-dYGTw4wBLLn2NYdX4VopXONb_SgPE4nQ35MqptVlcy2_q2OTRQY0NaUBuFtYx_0aRDPqsWY84ZuXbOIlaiMQvyQSGut-fnCruzxj1cHv9T4V2qHLd6PcYY7adIFhJPxG1fGmgOYKqQPKKcWE3kyYINnFbl6dTsdbSMh/w300-h400/IMG_2985.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The pink Seafolly costume is from Vinted and the black costume from Top Shop via Vinted.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhSoyF5Ehmhybg9MLAG-uC2Tf_WGRBqeCSLtWlGlYeccOrO9zPW5NOaGryUCDnYk_6EfKAgfY51YTEnwrxvGl-NmUjaPi-T-9_UuuO9F7wEjloa6MKtLQPQV-hNDAp6rnTlyKZmOxyfsPSmx9AyBrqIIKkwbzoxcZP1xTv2wcs7lMSAIzqDkIlWr7/s2048/IMG_2988.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxhSoyF5Ehmhybg9MLAG-uC2Tf_WGRBqeCSLtWlGlYeccOrO9zPW5NOaGryUCDnYk_6EfKAgfY51YTEnwrxvGl-NmUjaPi-T-9_UuuO9F7wEjloa6MKtLQPQV-hNDAp6rnTlyKZmOxyfsPSmx9AyBrqIIKkwbzoxcZP1xTv2wcs7lMSAIzqDkIlWr7/w300-h400/IMG_2988.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The Top Shop white shorts and black New Look shorts are both from Vinted.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi707EEcHTb1Ni1DzocF8IZOOtn_U3JdhpZAtqcjDjnU3kLozhZ0Foux903UtMwvNl8w5UD-VT9aeAKtHT6V_bLPqBo4ivWCBC3QZ60Q4xG_LCwpCj9gcjNz6KDvjB-tXqye1uTPouy8PaZG7twlq8YK8Inan6ScV605JME7ez93PoVqAHqPG1oYuLB/s2048/IMG_2991.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi707EEcHTb1Ni1DzocF8IZOOtn_U3JdhpZAtqcjDjnU3kLozhZ0Foux903UtMwvNl8w5UD-VT9aeAKtHT6V_bLPqBo4ivWCBC3QZ60Q4xG_LCwpCj9gcjNz6KDvjB-tXqye1uTPouy8PaZG7twlq8YK8Inan6ScV605JME7ez93PoVqAHqPG1oYuLB/w300-h400/IMG_2991.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">These beaded Top Shop bag was £3 from Vinted and the BNWT Zara bag also Vinted was £10.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6q7wYLIb7zkOzsH1h6wvSyDSu2qd_SWI-0ytRsAaqATwdiuCfjJ6Lmd3MowSPHhzUOcFZeb3Z9X2jfHgaYdiPPntztttM5lYdaeFLA4sYcmyQf4TUjMjuLUXqUsm_0_IXMouRRxm7FZTDwjCaiAQ_nJlZ2kO49l08FgF2M6xw0eb_u8kARJh5K62/s2048/IMG_3002.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF6q7wYLIb7zkOzsH1h6wvSyDSu2qd_SWI-0ytRsAaqATwdiuCfjJ6Lmd3MowSPHhzUOcFZeb3Z9X2jfHgaYdiPPntztttM5lYdaeFLA4sYcmyQf4TUjMjuLUXqUsm_0_IXMouRRxm7FZTDwjCaiAQ_nJlZ2kO49l08FgF2M6xw0eb_u8kARJh5K62/w300-h400/IMG_3002.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">This gorgeous white Reiss Dress still had the £238 tag on it and I paid £40. Again from Vinted.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjahbPsChaW60WPrJgNpFjgRcOAJQSgMJXdI-eidBxnbI8ZbWQ_ZMaiGOTNktXjCQKZvQQTTYXOH_Svz7Q6i7gBq6oz5xyIBSYqDwjMoI1LYlA9jzJYZtruViQ9pA2w6xspWOaFF7Q0q1rNSenlg2cjXTgF1Q9jp7xgSmc4euxf2N4toY2QN7fhNSyg/s2048/IMG_2973.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjahbPsChaW60WPrJgNpFjgRcOAJQSgMJXdI-eidBxnbI8ZbWQ_ZMaiGOTNktXjCQKZvQQTTYXOH_Svz7Q6i7gBq6oz5xyIBSYqDwjMoI1LYlA9jzJYZtruViQ9pA2w6xspWOaFF7Q0q1rNSenlg2cjXTgF1Q9jp7xgSmc4euxf2N4toY2QN7fhNSyg/w300-h400/IMG_2973.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">And my absolute favourites are these leather and wood Mulberry Sandals which came with dustbag and box and had never been worn.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I paid £40.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In the first picture I am wearing a sarong I bought yesterday for £3 from a local charity shop with the Top Shop costume and preloved Dolce & Gabana sunglasses.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I am off to see what Sarah has added to her preloved collection this month.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">I will be back soon to share the holiday snaps.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Have a great day,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Jane.</span></p></div></div>The Small Fabric Of My Lifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584379200783754320noreply@blogger.com1