Maternity Clothes for Fatty Big Belly

I was not one of those beautiful, glowing pregnant women with ankles. I was green for the first third, diabetic and grumpy for the second two, I had bad skin, a ‘rounder’ face (thank you friends) bleeding gums, I looked pregnant from every angle and I was clumsy. I spent much of my time catching my breath or balance...

Glamping anyone?

All the magazines I’m reading seem to have features on Festival outfits and how to camp in style. I’ll just get this out there first, I don’t camp. I hate it, I tried it again fairly recently and we left after one night. We arrived in the drizzle, half pitched our tent to find that friends of friends had...

Terry Gilliam’s Damnation of Faust...

Set in the 1930’s during the rise of Naziism, the designer wanted to convey a sense of diabolical darkness through the use of a very smokey eye for the Ladies’ chorus, the Gents’ chorus and the actor/dancers. After being given a couple of references, I trotted off and came up with two designs which I then taught to all...

Laid back mum style

For those that want to follow fashion but are too embarrassed to look like they’ve made the effort and don’t have time to make an effort even if they did want to. I’ve done it, I’ve sat in a sand pit and judged a fellow mum; I watched as she ran to the climbing frame that her son had...

Am I a sucker for advertising?

Apart from his wedding ring a man needs just one piece of jewellery and that should be a good watch. We’ve all heard that one right? … or in my case used it many times to justify the purchase of a new Rolex to my bemused wife and friends. This is a phrase no doubt dreamed up by a...

Summer sponsored by pink or blue

I’m shopping for summer clothes and baby holiday items, obsessively. We’re going away soon to Greece and the list of equipment we ‘need’ is fairly long, maybe it’s not, I haven’t done a beach holiday with a one year old before. Perhaps I’ll learn from this one and next year I’ll do the ‘sun-cream in my back pocket and...