On checking my fitness app this morning I discovered that I'd walked almost 9 miles since Saturday. I've not been anywhere noteworthy or done any running, that's just me constantly walking to the lockers and the local parcel shops and back, its been a bumper weekend for Vinted sales! Anyway, with the weather being so grim, it's been a day of pottering and, with it being a Monday, houseplant watering day.
It was too wet to contemplate outdoor photos earlier (it's now late afternoon and rather lovely) but I rather like the effect of flash on these pictures. Long-time readers will, I'm pretty sure, recognise this embroidered Indian cotton maxi dress which was a gift from a German blogging friend back in 2010, it used to belong to her hippy mother in the 1960s.
Lacking in windowsills, we have houseplants anywhere with a bit of light. I try and rotate them every few months so they all get some sunshine although some are getting far too big to move, like the Umbrella plant (or should I call it a tree?) I'm watering in the music room. It was 12" when I bought it during lockdown, now we have to get the ladders out and lop the top off. Fortunately it roots really well and we've managed to grow four substantial plants from the trimmings.
The Mother-in-Law's Tongue (I think it's known as a Snake Plant elsewhere in the world) started off as one plant and has now become six. Those ceramic head pots were from Poundland last year (although they weren't £1).
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday (Easter Sunday) it was gloriously sunny and warm and we spent most of the day outside - Jon doing some tasks in the garden and me photographing Vinted stock.
I'm very much drawn to blue at the moment, possibly as there's so much of it blooming the the garden, swatches of bluebells, clouds of forget-me-nots and an annoying amount of green alkanet (which is actually blue). I wore this 1970s Mayur block printed midi dress (bought from a neighbour in 2018) with my chazza-shopped pewter trainers.
These Indian dresses can very gauzy and sheer but I hate having to wear an nylon underskirt underneath them as it takes away the joy from wearing cotton. What's the alternative when it's too warm for the usual thermal leggings? My used, abused and worn to death, Levi 501s!
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Our amazing charity-shopped tagine's proving to be very useful. We took advantage of the supermarket Easter price war and bought some 8p vegetables from Lidl, using some in yesterday's vegetarian tagine. Jon did a variation of Jack's Not-a-Tagine recipe HERE - highly recommended!
More blue! On Saturday I wore the Monsoon dress Nikki gave me, with an All About Audrey shirred cotton blouse she'd alerted me to on Vinted and my vintage Anokhi waistcoat worn inside out - that's the beauty of artisan made vintage clothes, the interior is often just as gorgeous as the exterior!
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It was so cold on Saturday that I wore thermals, a jacket, a scarf and gloves to walk to the lockers! Talk about four seasons in a day!
I spent some of my Vinted earnings on some new Bohemian Bloom reversible cotton bedding, isn't it fabulous?
Here's the inspiration for my blog title...Squid rock!
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