Saturday 13th June found me donning my pearls, hair snood and cats eyes glasses and getting myself down to AJ’s Diner in Wellingborough for a 40’s night. Now, AJ’s is somewhere I go on a regular basis, as they have a jive night/class every Friday evening and a Live band night on the first…

Last July I went to the first StyleXL held in Leicester, by the amazing Leah Shafik of LeahXL. This was my very first ever plus size event, and I was somewhat nervous. I attended with a couple of friends, and was totally star struck by all the amazing bloggers that I had been reading…

As we all know, there been a lot of negative press in the past couple of months about being fat. And there’s been some amazing comebacks, including the fabulous #wearethethey campaign set up by the lovely Debz. Well, I don’t know about you, but I am fed up of negativity of any sort at…

On Saturday 16th May, I got myself up at the crack of dawn, shimmied into a beautiful Pin Up Girl Dress, and got myself on the 0830 train to London. Finally… It was Curvy Convention Day! Curvy Convention was a plus size event held just around the corner from Marylebone Station and was running…

I LOVE London. I always have and I guess I always will! As a teen, I used to get the bus from Northamptonshire and sit on it for about 3 hours, and go and meet a pen pal (who I am still in touch with 25+ years later) and spend the weekend. Then adulthood,…