A few weeks ago I had the lovely Dawn Panter invite me to an event which seemed right up our street! The Leicester Vintage Carnival was being held at Leicester Racecourse and she had tickets and wondered if I would be interested in attending with her. For those regular readers, you may know I…

Last week I had a lovely email from Rosie at Yours Clothing letting me know they had just launched a new range of clothing from the wonderful Lady Voluptuous. Knowing that the style was right up my street, she kindly offered to send me one of the new dresses to review. Going onto the…

For several years now my daughters have been buying clothes from a high street retailer, Quiz. They usually have a great standard size selection with everything from Playsuits to Occasionwear, all suited for the, in my opinion, younger person. Obviously being old (according to my children) and plus size, I never thought that I would…

In previous posts, I have talked a lot about how my style has changed over the past 2.5 years. In the most welcome of ways, I think. In the past, I had no body confidence, and disliked my size intensely, but was not willing to do anything about it. Or when I did do something…

This will probably be one the shortest blog posts that I have ever written! I just wanted to say to each and every one of my readers from Guernsey to Ghana, French Polynesia to Finland, Kyrgyzstan to Kuwait and England to Ecuador a very Merry Christmas. We may be thousands of miles apart. We may…