The Zombie Wears Vintage

This weekend, an ill-advised teen was arrested for posting a photo of a burning poppy on Facebook. It wasn’t very nice, and it was likely to piss people off, but in my opinion it wasn’t worthy (even slightly!) of an arrest. But I’m not going to start that debate again. What I am going to [...]

In the past few days (and in actual fact the past few months), a number of interesting cases have come up in the courts. One, the man who made gross, obscene and generally abhorrent comments on his Facebook page about April Jones and Madeline McCann, who has been sent to prison. Two, the main who [...]

It seems to be that every post I write at the moment starts with “Sorry I’ve been away for so long”. My blogging commitment keeps getting disrupted by other commitments, and those other things? They’re just far more important! You see, little Jensen, our new kitten, has been very ill. He’s been sleeping nearly every hour [...]

Meet Jensen (named after the Jensen Interceptor, not Mr. Jenson Button!). He’s a little kitten from our local RSPCA, originally called Oscar. I’ve been wanting a kitten for as long as I can remember, as I was never allowed them as a child. As such, I’ve dreamt of having a little kitty curled up on the bed [...]

Ye Gods, I am a bad morning person. I like to sleep as late as I can (on work mornings, this is) and get ready for work in the shortest time possible. By the time I roll into the work car park I’m generally awake, but the whole process of thumping, stumbling and clawing my way around my house will have [...]

As you all probably know, I love tattoos. I think there are many horribly done, barely thought through disasters, of course, but for every failure there is a stunning work of body art that will be treasured forever. Whilst looking for inspiration for my next tattoo, which has been planned for ages and no doubt won’t reach my body [...]

I’m a funny mix of a person, you know. On the one hand, I’m a lazy bugger who will avoid tidying and whose idea of an evening well spent probably involves snoozing or otherwise relaxing. Yet on the other, I always achieve things, I have my goals and I like to get those boxes ticked. Granted I [...]

Two of my favourite bloggers, Erin at Work With What You’ve Got and Julie at Orchid Grey, have both popped up on Google Reader recently in gorgeous floaty kaftan type things. They were floral, and light and silky, and (granted) perhaps not quite suitable for our wet British summer. However, they caught my attention, in part because they were being [...]

I’ve been quite domesticated this week. I know, it happens! The urge had come upon me in recent weeks to do a little foraging, but really it’s far too early for the sort of plants I want to be picking – for the plums and damsons and sloes that will be ready and waiting come [...]

Black heels are generally one of those funny shoe-closet items. Every time I say to myself, “I need a pair of simple, sensible black heels”, and somehow, in OMG GLITTER fashion, I get distracted, and end up buying a pair that are very definitely not sensible, very definitely not black, and which are usually a little bit ridiculous. [...]