Denim Skirt, Black and Missing Dustbins

Good day, my lovelies.

Seems like I'm going through a denim skirt with everything sort of week.

Today I did black with my denim skirt, which BTW I have checked out.  It's Dotty P.

With my opaques, this time black and Gabor ankle boots, my Limited Collection black lace-edge top.

The top is at least 15 years old.  I find it so useful, every single year. 

The navy and grey East embellished shawl goes well with this as there a bits of navy so dark that against black they look well, black.

I'd bought this skirt for a summer holiday but had stopped wearing it over the years.  Then a few years ago when the Other Granny (who happens to be French = stylish) popped round for a coffee I noticed that she was wearing a denim skirt with thick tights.  I loved the look and realised that hey, I have a denim skirt and hey, I could start wearing it again, but in winter.  So I did. 

And for several years I have continued to feel inspired by Other Granny's look 'cos I quite simply love it!

I dressed up snuggly in the Uniqlo ultra light weight down coat.

It's shorter than the skirt but I think that is OK.  I echoed the blue of the skirt in the shawl and I think that helps me to get away with the varying lengths.

And it was good that I dressed up snuggly as I had to walk around the roads looking for dustbins that had blown out from the drive during  Storm Angus

I found the contents of one a few yards away, then found one dustbin about half a mile down the road! The other dustbin is missing, presumed lost forever.

But thankfully, no apparent damage has been inflicted on house or garden, it would seem, though things have been upturned, uplifted and shifted across the garden.  But all intact.

But the storm had passed away by the time I'd picked up my dustbin, brushed myself down and moved on into town.  All was still.  The sea.  The few boats in the marina.  The sky. 

And all was still in the High Street.  We took a stroll around the town with Other Granny on a Sunday morning when all was really quiet and empty.  A good time to window shop.

It'll soon be heaving with Christmas shoppers.  Have you started your shopping yet?

A la perchoine.



Denim and Brown

Hello, dear readers.  Is it cold where you are?  Here it's been a bit blowy, a bit wet, a bit haily and a bit cold.   Everything bar the snowy bit, really.
I'm starting to cocoon.  I'm starting to feel a few housey posts brewing inside me.  It's that time of year.  Come to think of it, you and I haven't had a Christmas together yet. I'd better get cracking on those posts so you and I can build up some seasonal history.

But in the meantime, today I give you more winter denim, peeps.  Today with brown.

Denim skirt (must check out its label, out of curiosity), Limited Collection brown modal long sleeved top, Next doggy scarf, Clarks brown dependable bendables. 

 East long brown merino cardi.  This has been keeping me warm for 10 years + and was around long before the term "coatigan" came into being.   It just keeps on going.  It shows that sometimes paying that bit extra for a classic quality piece means that you can enjoy it for many, many years to come.



And my Ode to Opaques continues; today we have opaque brown, of course.

So, nicely snug for the day, which became a laundry day as it turned out to be good drying weather.  My domestic goddestry abounded ! 

To and fro-ing from the washing line gave me the opportunity to spy a few flowers still hanging on in there around in the garden.

The hydrangeas are still looking pretty, even in their November shrivelling phase.

But roses?

New roses?!

And the promise of more to come?!!!

Must be the result our wonderful never-ending-that-did-eventually-end Indian Summer.

Enjoy this post's brevity - there's a big post a-brewin'!

A la perchoine.