TARDIS Tuesday- Young Clara from The Rings of Akhaten

Hi there,

Greetings this dark and gloomy Monday night. I am feeling jubilant to be home at this time because I was covering for a flautist at a rehearsal in Walthamstow and due to the frankly egregious timings of trains and engineering works, I was due home around 1am.  However, due to some lovely discussion, I discovered a cellist actually lives in the town a few miles from here and she very kindly gave me a lift all the way home so I am back at 11.15pm rather!  Which made a tedious rehearsal seem less irritating since I didn't have to spend a 2.5hour train journey home wondering why I had bothered!

So, TARDIS Tuesday!  I thought I'd tackle one of those obscure Clara outfits today that featured very briefly in the episode.
In one of Clara's very first episodes, in series 7, The Rings of Akhaten, Clara's memories are very important.  She carries a book called '101 places to see' with her and a red leaf but she's never been anywhere.   This is because her mother Ellie Oswald died young so she never got to live her life so Clara's ambitions to travel were stifled and she never used that book that her Mother gave her.
In one of the flashbacks, we see youngish Clara at the graveside of her Mother.  She is wearing a red Duffle coat (from F&F at Tescos) and carries her 101 places to see book.

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She holds her book as she tearfully regards her Mother's grave.  Not much of her outfit is visible except the Duffle Coat.

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And here are my photos.
I look absolutely terrible in these photos as I was performing with my flute trio at a church on Saturday at their Christmas fair and the graveyard is a very busy thoroughfare.  Originally, I was hoping my friend would take some photos for me but she had to dash off so I was reduced to balancing my camera very precariously on a low grave stone!
It was highly embarrassing taking these photos and trying to take them when no one was passing through.  I couldn't get the angle right, the focus right, the gravestone in the right place (I am obscuring it here), I forgot to take my sparkly star earrings out from the gig, the book wasn't at the right angle, I obscured its title, I obscured the toggles on my coat, my hair was a mess, I pulled daft facial expressions.... the list goes on...these are the best of a bad bunch!  At one point, a lady holding a cigarette actually stopped and offered to take the photos for me but no one else manages to work my camera properly, they were all lovely close ups but totally blurry so my 'camera balanced on a gravestone' were actually better!