Entries from February 2009

February 26, 2009

After three glasses of champagne

 
This is the best sign on a building site ever. Well done, Fenwicks department store on Bond Street. 
 Hello. I have a confeshion to make. I may be about to booze and blog. Or blooze? Or boog? Notshure.
 
IknowIknow. It’s bad form to be pished on only our – what is it? – fifth date. Totally [...]

February 25, 2009

Saving £1000s in one lunch hour

I saved literally thousands of pounds at lunchtime today. The number of things I did not buy is quite incredible.
 
Of course, the husband won’t see it like that. Instead, he will predictably fixate on the measly and insignificant £40 I DID spend. This almost non-existent amount of money went on a must-have navy blue [...]

February 17, 2009

The Boots: Part 3

Since owning The Boots, my life has indeed changed, if not out of all recognition, then definitely for the better. Considering the high expectations I had of life AB (After Boots), this is truly incredible. The following are a few representative examples of what happens when I take The Boots out into society.
 
Example 1
TopShop [...]

February 17, 2009

The Boots: Part 2

Three and a half weeks later. December 2008. The Rivington Grill. Shoreditch.
 
As I walked to meet my friends at the Grill it was inevitable that I was going to pass Start. I was looking forward to perving at The Boots again (if they were indeed still there). But despite the fact I had spent the previous [...]

February 17, 2009

The Boots: Part 1

It all started at, well, Start.
 
Start, if you don’t already know, is a designer clothing boutique in London’s Shoreditch, billed as, ‘Where fashion meets Rock ‘n’ Roll’ (not my capitals). Start is the place I would buy all my clothes if I wasn’t a badly paid journalist. Silky pink things from Miu Miu. Sexy [...]