Hello there! How are you?? Oh my goodness did I speak too soon or WHAT in my last blog??! I'm pleased for this rain, we really need it - but I'm LONGING for the sunshine to return! OK, so we are knee-deep in boxes at QVC with the great sort out and the big move (which has been talked about for years) now upon us - so very exciting indeed!
Ironically I used to live in Chiswick and left a few years ago, probably just a matter of months before it was announced to us where we as a company were moving - typical, but better for the children as they've had much more space to grow up being outside London.
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So, spring has most definitely sprung these last couple of weeks and I LOVE IT!! Saying that, I love the arrival of any season - always a new beginning to be had although spring definitely seems to have that in its step!
So despite the loss of one hour, I seem to have gained a few other things - firstly a cook's essentials knife appeared out of nowhere (baffled), then I finally gave in to the Xbox’s charm and ordered one (seeing as it was on 'Super Bargain Price', I thought it would be rude not to!)
So you can now find me leaping up and down with arms flailing in the air pretending I’m riding a raft on a regular basis!!
With spring just around the corner, I’m already busy turfing things out, changing things around, having a good sort out and with that comes a little bit of change!
I love changing things in the house as the seasons progress through the year and for me, this spring, it’s all about bringing colour into the home (and getting the bunny back out in the garden!).
I did a huge amount of redecorating last year (still a ceiling and a couple of walls to paint!), but I went a beautiful shade of grey, which on its own albeit divine, is a canvas which needs colour!!
So new cushions, a few bits here and there, and Bob’s your uncle... although should I say Ron’s your uncle??!
I’ve promised this blog for ages (please excuse my terrible title!) and seeing as my hair is the longest it is likely to get I thought now is a good time to share these pictures!
Yes indeed, naturally nearly black and curly, who would have thought?! Even I can't remember what it's like naturally (and there are quite a few “shiny” ones these days if I’m honest!). It took me years and years to get the courage to chop it all off. It seems you spend your youth growing your hair, only to chop it off and start again!
Although saying that, my mum was in hospital when I finally got around to doing it and I remember visiting her and she said “do you feel lost without it?” My reply was, “you know what, Mum? I feel found!” So how about that?! Who’d have known? And really, I talked about it for years before actually getting enough guts to actually go for it. Our identity is very much partnered with our hair, hence the power of the bad hair day I suppose!
I wore this scarf on air this weekend and it caused quite a stir – lucky that it comes with tomorrow's (Wednesday 18th) TSV dress from Nina Leonard!! I’m a MASSIVE scarf fan, in fact it’s beyond rare to find me behind the scenes without one on!
This particular one is in the style of a snood – however, when we wore snoods in the 80s (always thought it was such a strange yet endearing name!) they were much smaller circles than this one. This is more of a never-ending scarf which is rather handy, as you therefore have many more ways you could wear it!
Gosh! It's been such a busy few months, EVERYONE has had birthdays so we've been inundated with excitement and parties. Mine was the last one and I was given a KitchenAid which was very exciting ... although it still hasn't been used but at least it's now out of the box! :)
It’s been a super few months with lots of highlights – including interviewing Westlife on QVC, which was so much fun (albeit rather like controlling four eight year old boys on Smarties!)
Last October, my mum found an old address in a drawer which belonged to a woman who was connected to her dad, my grandfather, by marriage. Mum almost completely lost touch with him when she was young after a rather acrimonious divorce.
He died in the late 70s leaving two other daughters, one of which was my mum’s half sister called Penny, but with one thing and another, they completely lost touch after he died.
Okay, so if you haven't heard me going on about it on air yet - we went camping on the Isle of Wight last week and it was just fabulous!
Not glamping I must add - I’m not sure I see how a chemical loo can be considered glamorous...give me a tent and then access to clean and warm shared facilites anyday!!
The Isle of Wight, as we so often hear from Liz Earle, feels like a sanctuary from the rest of the world - and it truly does! Other than the fact that the island's radio station plays loads of 80s music which meant that I kept weaving in and out of nostalgic feelings (not always positive!), we had a complete blast!
My husband and I decided last week (rather last minute) to go to Wimbledon and see what we could see. We lived there when we were first married and yet it’s taken until now to go and actually see the tennis – terrible! Our son had his school year special assembly on the Wednesday afternoon so we took off after that.
Murray was playing his quarter final, so we thought it would be a great day to go and soak up some of the atmosphere. We weren’t fussy about seats as such, we just wanted to go, seeing as it was quite a last minute thang!
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