The Daydreamer Goes To: Tower of London

Imagine a river of red, winding its way round the bottom of an old, iconic stone building. On closer inspection, the illusion of a river is actually an enormous cluster of individual ceramic poppies planted in the moat of the Tower of London.  Once complete, there will be 888,246 poppies, each one representation of a… View Post

The Return of the Poncho

Burberry AW14   Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or are lucky enough to still be holidaying and therefore not paying too much attention to autumn trends quite yet), you’ll have realised that the Burberry personalised blanket wrap is the piece of the season.    Following the AW14 Burberry show in February when Cara Delevigne modelled the poncho, the… View Post

Outfit Post: Berry Hues x Animal Print

With the new season comes the thrill of new wardrobe staples and, for me, items that are always top of the list include a great coat, a day bag and an evening bag, and a pair of can’t-live-without-shoes.In this post, I bring you two out of four: this lush Jasper Conran at Debenhams coat (yep, the one I’ve been raving… View Post

Little Italy

    You may have noticed on my social media outlets that I love a certain little Italian cafe in my home town, Broughty Ferry: Visocchi’s. Why do I love it so? It’s a family-run establishment with the best coffee in Dundee (and the surrounding area) and, believe me, I’ve tried a lot of coffee round… View Post

The Daydreamer’s Brunch: The Blythswood, Glasgow

  Mondays are always tough, aren’t they? That first working day of the week, waking up to face the beginning of another busy week filled with work and chores. Monday morning, when you remember how much sh*t you left on your desk on Friday, knowing that – now that the weekend is over – you simply can’t… View Post