Dundee Shines

I love Christmastime, but I must admit I don’t agree with Christmas starting too early. Last month (yes, October) I heard Christmas music playing in the shops (I know you want to know – it was East 17’s Stay Another Day). For me, this was far too soon – Halloween hadn’t even passed! However, now… View Post

A Gift for Jake: Mungo & Maud

I first heard of Mungo & Maud when I read a feature in Vogue years ago. Being a dog person, I remember being instantly taken by the images of the shop front, the proprietors standing in the doorway of what looked to be a very chic shop, considering it was a) a dog shop and… View Post

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