The Zombie Wears Vintage

Sometimes all a gal wants is a meme. She wants to blog, she wants to say witty and sparklingly intelligent things that make her readers swoon with amazement – but all she can really stretch to is a list of fun questions and the occasional amusing one-liner. And typing in the third person. Thanks to the lovely DressJunkie [...]

The magazines are full of beautiful things at the moment. I flick through, queen of utterly-concious escapism, and gaze upon floral spring gowns and lace and pretty patterns. Even the tough stuff is somehow… soft. Like a bunny trying to be scary. My reaction to all this prettiness is to crave grunge. To desire edges, and roughness. [...]

Wow. Talk about jumping in there with the big one. I’ve never really gotten political on this blog, and yet here I am launching myself off the high board with nothing but 10 metre swimming certificate and a rubber duck. A cool rubber duck, granted, but still a small floating bath toy and absolutely no expertise. Except, [...]

Andy doesn’t really read. He loves books, he loves words, but he’s a busy, physical, practical boy. Time feels better spent down the barn, with tools and a car to butcher and piece back together. His hands need to be constantly moving, solving problems, creating things that I couldn’t even imagine doing. There is the perseverance of him, the [...]

Yesterday, we got up very late… and more than a little hungover. There was a long period of lying in bed, hugging and watching TV. Nigel Slater came on, we watched, tummies rumbled. The food looked so good that we made it for dinner, without a recipe. And it was gooooooood. So, without further ado, [...]

Dear Agony Aunt, I don’t know why I’m writing to you now. I’ve been in plenty of relationships with shoes before, after all. I’ve had long term love affairs with simply beautiful pairs that have treated me well. I’ve fallen out of love with pairs that seemed so pretty at the beginning, but which failed [...]

I speculate, perhaps, that this isn’t my most remarkable title. It’s the sort of excitable and linguistically simple title that is only one step above my dodgiest of dodgy puns. The style favoured, perhaps, by cheeky teenagers rather than adult writers. But hey – I’ve just spent money I don’t have, on a dress I [...]

I sometimes live in something of a fantasy world. It’s a happy  place, a comforting bubble, and the sort of imaginary realm in which I’m sure surpasses even the poshest of hotels. My fantasy world involves many things – on my more political days I’ll indulge in imaginings of a fairer world (pauses endearingly to receive Nobel Peace Prize), on [...]

What a beautiful world…

OK, this is awesome. As a follow up to last year’s super-successful Darth Vader “The Force” advert, Volkswagen have released an advert that appears to have fulfilled a great many of my previously unknown and deeply buried life aspirations – making dogs bark and howl the Star Wars Imperial March. Sci-fi, meet crufts. How do [...]