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Post by T.M. So has anyone else been watching Pretty Little Liars – the American prime-time soap about four schoolgirls who get into scrapes and all sorts of mischief? I know, I know, even if you are clued in you won’t be admitting it any time soon. Well, I’m not shy about my guilty pleasures […]
MorePost by C.M. Remember Galway this time last week? Everyone you encountered had a lovely smiley face on them, the fake tan was out on maxi-dress adorned, flip-flop wearing girls, an uncomfortable number of men felt the need to disrobe their top halves, a great deal jauntily swinging their t-shirts from the belt loop of […]
MorePost by C.M. Despite my love of dressing up; stomping around in my mother’s stilettos, sellotaping hula-hoops under wide skirts to create a Victorian era look, using a pair of tights to simulate long Rapunzel hair, a myriad of other perfectly reasonable costume innovations; as a small child I secretly loved my school uniform. It was brown. […]
MorePost by T.M. I laughed out loud when I discovered a Facebook page dedicated to what the administrator thought was the abomination of footwear – the kitten heel. The page was composed mainly of photo galleries of girls’ legs wearing the unfortunate shoe. I discovered it a few years ago and since then attitudes towards […]
MorePost by C.M. I spent an hour and a half trying to shoo a blue-bottle out of my room last night. No matter how much I tried it to wave it in the direction of the wide open window it easy and breezily flew through earlier, it zig-zagged buzzily in every direction but that one. […]
MoreBack from the ‘Burgh and in no fit state to post, so here’s a little something to tide you over until tomorrow – a hand to help you get your 2013 grunge on, if you will, in keeping with TM’s guide to Pearl(s) Jamming!
MorePost by T.M. TM and CM are two lucky mice! This day two weeks ago we were traipsing around the streets of Venice and now we are preparing for a long weekend away to Edinburgh to join a bunch of our (human) friends. I popped into Pennys yesterday on my way home from work to […]
MorePost by C.M. Hey, you know when you’re around three years old, and you’re given your cousin’s old tracksuit, and you don’t want to wear it – not because it’s a hand-me-down, but because you don’t quite understand the concept, and you’re afraid said cousin will want said tracksuit back? Because you recognize the tracksuit […]
MorePost by T.M. The Dublin Writer’s Festival ended yesterday. Because of a number of unforeseen circumstances I couldn’t attend any of the events that I had wanted to but the festival got me thinking about literature and its style connection. Aside from books about fashion (I read a great one on Coco Chanel recently, by Justine […]
MorePost by C.M. How to pack for a weekend city break? When it comes to first world problems this is a big one. Very big, particularly if you’re travelling with a certain budget airline with very little room for cabin baggage. I have recently had cause to leave the country (to Venice, in case you […]
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