I think I timed my visit to see the latest exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking rather well, as it coincided with Quentin Blake’s 83rd birthday today!
Quentin Blake Exhibition at The Lightbox
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Christmas Book Gift Guide
Christmas stockings should be full of books (although normal stockings should be similarly so). Here are some suggestions:
Christmas Giveaway!
The Christmas Shop!
The week starts with a visit to Garsons Farm in Esher…
Specifically, the new HUGE Christmas department!
Perfume Notes: Chanel No. 5 Eau Premiere
Make room on your Christmas lists for Chanel No. 5 Eau Premiere.
Autumn Lookbook Part Two
Autumn fashion continues apace but this time in full evening mode.
Autumn Lookbook Part One
What to wear on spectacularly dreary Autumn days is a point to ponder. In times of sartorial uncertainty (and when I need to smile) I consult my homemade book of fashion maxims written by yours truly, c. 15 years ago. It tells me: ‘Grey weather does not mean we forgo style’. Not a greatly poetic line, but we’ll take it, as it’s certainly workable.
When White Stuff asked me if I fancied picking a few pieces following my visit to their new Guildford store, I swooned with joy at the opportunity to work a little style into a grey November Sunday!
White Stuff in Guildford
Every so often a shop opening attracts my attention, like the sound of a champagne cork popping in the next room, or a bright pullulating firework in the distance.
Clarins Eau Dynamisante
There is nothing tentative about this perfume. It’s like hosting a party at your pulse points. Plucky notes include ginseng (so uplifting, very important for November), a fresh zing from aloe vera and an almost woody horsetail trail that synergize into a striking and energetic scent.
More Letters of Note Review
The Letters of Note family has expanded again!
I feel like an excitable gazelle clutching my copy of ‘More Letters of Note’: a beautiful book bursting with letters from favourite writers like Katherine Mansfield, Henry James and Sylvia Plath; a message from actor Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor; a curious note from Mozart to his wife Marianne… and that’s just for starters!