Royalty and Other Stuff I Considered Today.

If you're a regular reader you know I'm a big fan of the Queen and love everything she wears. As far as I'm concerned she never gets it wrong. She's beautifully groomed, loves colour and prints, rocks large brooches, has superior jewels and is Hardcore Into Matching. Well Done Fashion-wise Your Majesty. You are an Inspiration to Us All. I thought Zara looked excellent too. Look:
And so did Princess Anne. I'm old enough to remember the yellow silk number she wore to Zara's christening. It had a matching hat. Some people diss her fashion sense but I'm not one of them. I like the way she's stayed true to her look and I really like her Big circa 1972 Hairdo. You can tell she uses a lot of super strong hairspray. Plus she's practically the hardest working royal.

Meanwhile Helen's won a Best Body award at 66. Well Done. She looks great in leopard print.

I once got a very rude anonymous comment asking me why I dressed like a 50 year old woman. I don't know. Because I can?

Thank you for your dinner suggestions. Last night I made a salad from this month's Women's Weekly. It had cauliflower and chillies and anchovies. It was deadset tasty.

Don't lose sleep wondering what this polish is. It's OPI's dulche de whatsy (leche?)

The poor garden's suffering. Maybe tomorrow I'll sort it out.

It's really not covering itself in Glory these days

Today I did the nicest thing

I met up with my friend Y who I have not seen for about a decade. It was like no time at all had passed and we picked up where we'd left off. She looked exactly the same.

We both worked for a department store back in the day when we were uni students flogging men's fragrances and cosmetics. They used to pay us double time on Sunday and commission if we sold a certain amount of stuff per hour. People, I moved that stuff off the shelves.

Who was the guy with the white tie on Q and A? He certainly sparked things up.

Thank you for all your kind wishes about my Baby. I really think this current age is the absolutely cutest.

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The Anticipation is Building!

My sister just called me from London. People are camped out in front of the Abbey ready for action. She took photos to send me. She's watching it on telly. It's only 5am there now. Wonder if Kate's awake yet? She's buying me a newspaper to send over (Sister not Kate) Meanwhile I've actioned my faux Coronation chook (Forination Chicken). It doesn't photograph well. I use Greek Yogurt instead of cream and mayo and I go in hard with the lime juice, lime zest and mango puree. I do not add apricots. You can tell the whole original recipe thing was dreamt up by Ole Constance Spry to scream luxe-high-end-food-treat circa 1950s. The orginal recipe has not aged that well....
Table Centre Piece at the Ready

Will Camilla wear a Philip Treacy hat? Will the Queen wear blue? Will Princess Anne action her regular 1970s high hair?

Time will tell...

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Let's talk Brooches People

I don't care if they're unfashionable I love brooches. The Queen always looks stunning in them. But who wouldn't in diamonds that size? Princess Diana (Our Real Princess) wore a sapphire one a lot that always looked gorgeous.
I bought this enamel bee brooch from an antique shop in Marylebone in London when I was on holidays with my sisters in April 2008. It's from the 1960s. I wear it all the time. It looks particularly fetching on black silk.
Jackie (Our Leader) loved brooches. Here she is on her famous trip to Paris in the early 1960s in a navy silk Givenchy copy suit from Chez Ninon in New York. I bought copies of her twin pearl brooches from Generous Gems. I like to channel her when I wear them.
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