Tag: diaryofanhonestwoman
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British Red Cross Shop Portobello Road
Back in the Summer, I was asked to attend a shop opening. No ordinary shop this was a brand new British Red Cross Charity Shop on Portobello Road, West London. I arrived at 164 Portobello Road ready for a rummage through the usual charity shop donations, perhaps I would get a bargain? Or designer find,…
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El Oceano – Honest Travel
El Oceano is a dream of a Hotel. Nestled in a naturally beautiful cove along Mijas Costa in Andalucia. The hotel boasts five star beautifully decorated rooms, an award winning restaurant and perhaps most impressively a swim up Polynesian bar with views overlooking the Mediterranean. I first visited El Oceano around my tenth birthday, back then it…
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LFW Sunday Supplement #35
September is the best month of the year for me. It’s still a little warm from the Summer, we have Vogues bumper September Issue to feed on and we have Autumn/Winter wear to dive into, coats, boots, hats. Best of all London host’s one of my favourite events, London fashion Week. September is also my…
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Sunday Supplement #34
Happy Bank Holiday! Can it be the last bank holiday of the year? Possibly the end of Summer? I’ve had a lovely long weekend. I’ve gone a little green. I styled some hydrangeas for my friend’s wedding. I’ve reorganised my garden and my shed(s). I’ve pruned picked and potted herbs, ferns and my new favourite succulents.…
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Styling Hydrangeas
I had the most amazing day off this week. I had a million things to do on my day off but rather than give my day up to admin and cleaning I drank a pot of loose leaf tea in the morning and arranged some flowers in the afternoon. I love a flower that can…
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BA i360 – Brighton – Honest Travel
I’ve had a couple of weeks of not posting to the site. Family visiting, catching up with friends and weekends away. The usual August stuff. So while I’ve not been writing so much I have been doing a lot more travelling, trying, tasting and reviewing. I’ve renamed my Hotel Style section to Travel Style and…
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Normandy – Honest Travel
Normandy is land of green fields, cows and cider, not too different to the South of England, with the added bonus of stinkier cheese. Mont St Michael Mont St Michael is the most beautiful sight across from the mainland an island of rock and Abbey surrounded by sea. From a distance and especially at night…
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Clarins – Honest Beauty
No trip to France would be complete without a beauty cache. I know from previous trips that you can’t go wrong in a French Farmacie. Rows and rows of unpronounceable names, French bottles filled with potions and lotions to beautify. My cousin stockpiles her favourite brands like Biotherm Micellular Water, when she travels to France and saves…
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Brittany – Honest Travel
Last Week I spent some time in beautiful North West France, I’ve got so much to report back on I’ve decided to split the post in two. Today it’s my travel guide on Brittany and the Normandy post will be up soon. So here goes….. When I was 15 or 16 I read a novel…
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Off The Shoulder
Hey I’ve been away. Busy work week followed by a holiday in France (More about that later). This last week I have been nodding to the much talked about ‘Off the Shoulder’ trend. I packed for my holiday carefully chosen off the shoulder tops, shirts, and dresses, ranging from Marks and Spencer’s much hailed White…
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London Collections Men
London Collections Men Spring Summer 2017 was the best all in one place show of Men’swear that I have ever seen in this country. Surpassing even Florence’s Pitti Uomo our own London show had it all, international press, buyers and a plethora of Menswear from exhibitions to presentations and catwalk shows. I caught a few…
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London Weekend Wardrobe – LCM
Bright lights, big city, this past weekend for two days of London Collections Men, menswear in all shapes and forms; showroom exhibitions, presentations, and catwalk shows. With one night in the beautiful My Hotel Bloomsbury, I needed to pack a variety of muti-functional hard working outfits that would look good and travel well. I decided to…
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Garden Style
Hurray for a beautiful Summers Day. It’s officially British Summertime and boy did we have a scorcher today? I spent the entire day in the garden, eating, entertaining, relaxing. In the two and a half years we have been in our much loved Victorian Semi we have transformed the garden on a teeny budget. I’ve…
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The Best Cleansing Waters
I think it was a Couple of years ago that I read “wipes are for babies bottoms not for your face” from the fabulously straight talking beauty blogger Caroline Hirons. I don’t think I’ve used a cleansing wipe since. Wipes leave a sticky residue on your face which I always end up washing off. For…
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The Statement Necklace – Style Diary #08
My work wardrobe although varied has some no-nonsense staples. For this season frayed jeans (soft, comfortable denim) clog sandals of various colours and heights, shirts, striped, frilled, plain white and a good smartish jacket. This last week I’ve found a new staple that I now seem to be wearing every day, behold the statement necklace. I’ve…