I know, I know, it's not indigo but as I pondered a post title, I remembered a terrible, terrible joke that my friend Steve told me at university. It involved a long and protracted tale of the purple princess in the purple kingdom and the purple roads and the purple everything and the punchline of the joke was something about some characters being ushered into the palace by being told: "Indigo then". It was told at about 12am whilst walking back to my friend's Islington student halls! Hence why I remember it sort of, but not quite! Though I did drink a little bit of alcohol then, it was never too much (except at Steve's 2 parties embarrassingly!)
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I spent most of December and half of January being happy at my lack of sales-shopping and then it all went wrong. I found this purple skirt in the sale and worn it loads since. I was debating whether to applique a telephone onto it (with a ricrac wire alla Tuppeny-Happeny vintage) or just leave it purple?! What do you think?
This outfit is one I want to wear again and again for school- not too hot, not too cold. Like Goldilocks, I seek the perfect equilibrium of heat and cold! (except for the white/cream items in the outfit, the whole thing is Primarni!)
Shame that the skirt was doing a weird 'I am pretending to be an elephant' thing in these pictures- it usually hangs very nicely!
I've had a really quite nice day! It started well with CBC giving me a lift to the station, thus avoiding the rain! It meant I got the early, all stations train (means I don't have to change). At school, I took the choir to a rehearsal for our borough's choral festival at a local school. My Mum is one of my extra adults for this, so I got to see her (and get birthday present!). We arrived nice and early at the school which meant I had the opportunity to catch up with the 3 ladies running the rehearsal- one was my recorder teacher whose recorder ensemble I played in for about 10 years of my life- I absolutely adore her and admire her skill (she's the AST for music for our borough) and it was funny as I realised it today, in some ways, she is my sort of style inspiration- she always wore funky earrings and what she wears, I love-we have similar taste. Her comment on seeing me was, "Oh another lovely outfit K, I always love your style!". It made me smile to hear this as I think the same of her! The other one was the lady whose choir I sang in for about 8 years of my life. She is SUCH an inspiring choir leader and it's her retirement this year. The third was a University friend (fellow recorder player) who is actually the coordinator of the whole festival. It was lovely to catch up with her. Also, the piano accompanist was the man who accompanied me for SO many of my music exams through my childhood. I love the nostalgia of seeing so many beloved teachers from my childhood. Several are retiring this year and I feel really sad, like it's the end of an era and things will never quite be the same again. Still, there's still several who are remaining.
In this choral festival, the number of places offered to each school is limited, since the Royal Albert Hall has only a certain number of seats for performers and I was quite sad that I got to take all my choir except 3 of them. Despite the fact that they weren't going to the main concert, I still got them to come along to this pre-rehearsal and learn everything. Well, their hard work paid off because wonderfully, serendipitously, the school in the seats next to us in the Albert Hall didn't want 3 of their seats SO, my Uni friend/coordinator asked if we'd like them? WOULD WE???!!! Yessssss, of course!! SO their hard work reaped a reward.
A full lunchtime- in which I had lunch and chatted to my Mum and teachers and then the afternoon spent with year 5 who I like very much. The lesson was a listening lesson and thus, I got to listen to Vlatava from Ma Vlast by Smetana, which depicts the course of the river Vlatava in Czech. It is such a beautiful piece of music and due to the activities I planned for them, I got to listen to all glorious 14 minutes of it- twice!!! The children were drawing their own maps of the river- including the places they felt the music suggested the river was passing and inclusion of any descriptive words or musical points they recognised or identified. It's a lovely activity and they were so enthusiastic over it! Drumming club after school was a great success and we started learning Samba this week!
I went via the shops to see if I could seek some alternative ankle boots for the Clarks ones I featured on Monday. I've decided not to keep them. They were just too tight so I am going to send them back sadly. I went to T K Maxx and was really excited to find some Kurt Geiger black ankle boots reduced to £19 in my size but when I tried them on, they were far too tight!!! Tried some others but didn't really love them. Sad. Somehow, instead of buying ankle boots, I ended up with a pair of knee high black but almost petrol blue or grey leather boots by Ralph Lauren! I can't quite fathom the colour! They're so comfy!!!
I came home and after eating left over Chinese, I sat and finished a DIY crafty project (to be shared soon!) whilst watching back-to-back episodes of The Good Life on YouTube. The BBC has released all the episodes onto there!! It's been a lovely evening. Now, as I sit drinking cocoa with squirt cream on top, I am just waiting for the final piece of this happy days jigsaw- CBC to come back from his teaching evening!
How's your day been?!xx
I spent most of December and half of January being happy at my lack of sales-shopping and then it all went wrong. I found this purple skirt in the sale and worn it loads since. I was debating whether to applique a telephone onto it (with a ricrac wire alla Tuppeny-Happeny vintage) or just leave it purple?! What do you think?
This outfit is one I want to wear again and again for school- not too hot, not too cold. Like Goldilocks, I seek the perfect equilibrium of heat and cold! (except for the white/cream items in the outfit, the whole thing is Primarni!)
Shame that the skirt was doing a weird 'I am pretending to be an elephant' thing in these pictures- it usually hangs very nicely!
I've had a really quite nice day! It started well with CBC giving me a lift to the station, thus avoiding the rain! It meant I got the early, all stations train (means I don't have to change). At school, I took the choir to a rehearsal for our borough's choral festival at a local school. My Mum is one of my extra adults for this, so I got to see her (and get birthday present!). We arrived nice and early at the school which meant I had the opportunity to catch up with the 3 ladies running the rehearsal- one was my recorder teacher whose recorder ensemble I played in for about 10 years of my life- I absolutely adore her and admire her skill (she's the AST for music for our borough) and it was funny as I realised it today, in some ways, she is my sort of style inspiration- she always wore funky earrings and what she wears, I love-we have similar taste. Her comment on seeing me was, "Oh another lovely outfit K, I always love your style!". It made me smile to hear this as I think the same of her! The other one was the lady whose choir I sang in for about 8 years of my life. She is SUCH an inspiring choir leader and it's her retirement this year. The third was a University friend (fellow recorder player) who is actually the coordinator of the whole festival. It was lovely to catch up with her. Also, the piano accompanist was the man who accompanied me for SO many of my music exams through my childhood. I love the nostalgia of seeing so many beloved teachers from my childhood. Several are retiring this year and I feel really sad, like it's the end of an era and things will never quite be the same again. Still, there's still several who are remaining.
In this choral festival, the number of places offered to each school is limited, since the Royal Albert Hall has only a certain number of seats for performers and I was quite sad that I got to take all my choir except 3 of them. Despite the fact that they weren't going to the main concert, I still got them to come along to this pre-rehearsal and learn everything. Well, their hard work paid off because wonderfully, serendipitously, the school in the seats next to us in the Albert Hall didn't want 3 of their seats SO, my Uni friend/coordinator asked if we'd like them? WOULD WE???!!! Yessssss, of course!! SO their hard work reaped a reward.
A full lunchtime- in which I had lunch and chatted to my Mum and teachers and then the afternoon spent with year 5 who I like very much. The lesson was a listening lesson and thus, I got to listen to Vlatava from Ma Vlast by Smetana, which depicts the course of the river Vlatava in Czech. It is such a beautiful piece of music and due to the activities I planned for them, I got to listen to all glorious 14 minutes of it- twice!!! The children were drawing their own maps of the river- including the places they felt the music suggested the river was passing and inclusion of any descriptive words or musical points they recognised or identified. It's a lovely activity and they were so enthusiastic over it! Drumming club after school was a great success and we started learning Samba this week!
I went via the shops to see if I could seek some alternative ankle boots for the Clarks ones I featured on Monday. I've decided not to keep them. They were just too tight so I am going to send them back sadly. I went to T K Maxx and was really excited to find some Kurt Geiger black ankle boots reduced to £19 in my size but when I tried them on, they were far too tight!!! Tried some others but didn't really love them. Sad. Somehow, instead of buying ankle boots, I ended up with a pair of knee high black but almost petrol blue or grey leather boots by Ralph Lauren! I can't quite fathom the colour! They're so comfy!!!
I came home and after eating left over Chinese, I sat and finished a DIY crafty project (to be shared soon!) whilst watching back-to-back episodes of The Good Life on YouTube. The BBC has released all the episodes onto there!! It's been a lovely evening. Now, as I sit drinking cocoa with squirt cream on top, I am just waiting for the final piece of this happy days jigsaw- CBC to come back from his teaching evening!
How's your day been?!xx