superlambananas are deeply ingrained in the scouse culture.

i got my last disposable camera from liverpool back yesterday. i'm going to miss being a fresher. (and look at how pale i am in comparison to ellie in that first photo! glowing in the dark, in a club near you.)

dublin tomorrow - this means charity shops and temple bar with someone who knows i cannot stand guinness. it also means flying. i can deal with trains, but this is the first time i've ever flown on my own...

xxx

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I'M IN A VEST

it's weird to see photos of my uni room again. it took me about two hours to get everything off the walls. and this is proof that i use high tech cameras. there are three exposures left on my current one till i can get that developed and see some incriminating evidence. mate, this is going to be fun.

skirt; £10; topshop. top; £6; primark. st michael's belt; 20p; charity shop. bag; £4; charity shop. made bracelet; £11.50; ebay. socks; £4; asos. customised with a nando's sticker disposable camera; £3 (i think); boots' finest, pal.

(i just have bruises on my elbows now)

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eavis is letting the fields lie fallow next year, chums.

leith clark is a lovely.

above photos by me, below is from leith's flickr photostream

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let's drink campari overlooking the serpentine

it rained on my brother's birthday. we went out for a meal. this is what i wore. (details on lookbook)

ps, buy my things on ebay and i'll love you?

oh, and the whole "i'll blog more" thing clearly hasn't worked out. since we last "talked" i've been to sheffield to see arctic monkeys/discover quite how long i can go without sleep, seen les misérables, spent a horrific amount of time in spoons, attended the launch of hooga, went to my first ever foam party, had a nando's lunch and restrained myself when it came to miu miu shoes in the liberty sale. and now amy's coming over for a cup of tea. what an interesting life i lead.

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ain't no college grad kids

last week topshop hosted an event called "wish you were at topshop" which, as it coincided with the end of my exams (no longer can anyone tell me to "down it fresherrrrr"- hooray!) i headed down to liverpool one to see what was happening. one of the girls persuaded me to actually get involved, so i put on the blazer and got my photo taken (since when did ipads have cameras?), bought myself a ring and a cream tea from patisserie valerie as a treat for surviving year one, then returned to topshop for the dazed digital talk, which was stupidly interesting. (then i bought a bottle of rosé and discovered there's a lambanana in heebie jeebie's, but that's another story entirely).

hopefully as i'm back home for summer i'll be able to post more regularly, thank you so much to all my followers, and those who comment (arghhh, stop being so gushy, rebecca). are any of you going to the midlands meet-up in birmingham? i'm thinking of popping along!

xxx

breton stripe t-shirt; £10; raiders vintage. leather belt; 20p; st michael's via charity shop. blue skirt; £30; american apparel. leather tooled bag; £3; vintage. skull bracelet; £11; alexa chung for made via ebay. necklaces; gifts, topshop, accessorize... the blazer is from topshop, but they gave it to me to wear for the photo, i don't actually own it...

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she breaks just like a little girl

i know it was nearly a month ago, but i've only just got my photos from the weekend of the royal wedding developed. we went to charles' house, drank champagne, made daisy chains and raced on his family's mobility scooter. (i lost.)

i'm wearing a miss selfridge dress (£8, via charity shop), russell and bromley heels (£11, via ebay), carven cardigan (£63, via sample sale) and primark tights (£2... full price. wow)

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cagey tigers

'70s denim shorts, urban outfitters, £40. joanna louca drawstring pom pom pouch, via urban outfitters, £470. floral mary-jane flats, office, £18. barbour liberty rose print utility shirt, via asos, £89.95.

natural denim circle skirt, american apparel, £36. antalya shirt, all saints, £120. black patent loafers, russell and bromley, £135. brown flower satchel, miss selfridge, £35. pamela love crow skull necklace, via net-a-porter, £480.

swirled mesh and linen dress, carven via net-a-porter, £510. facet beads on suede bracelet, topshop, £14. pleat corner clutch, asos, £20. the beatle boot, anello and davide.

this summer is a time for music festivals, gigs, and the theatre (les miserables!!), and in the meantime i need stuff to distract me from reading shakespeare and james joyce - and this is where my enviable photoshop skills come in.

i'd really like to point out the boots in the last collage. they're made by a company called anello and davide who are based in kensington, london. they hand make all their shoes for each individual customer, and the ones i've pictured are an adaptation of the classic chelsea boot which became popular in the sixties due to the beatles (and many other bands of the time) naming them their footwear of choice. my mum told me she saved all her wages for a pair of her own (mid-calf and silver) but has no idea what happened to them, something i can't quite forgive her for.

for the past few years i've been dreaming of having my own pair custom made - but which colour and material would i choose?!

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i know i'll never be lonely, i've got songs in my blood

i do sometimes wonder how i manage to have friends. look at these photos. seriously.

and i appear to have really small hands and a pull in my tights.

less than a month and my first year of university will be complete. i don't even know how i feel about that, in all honesty.

dress; topshop, £12. jacket; charity shop; £7.50. necklaces; giveaways/accessorize/topshop. bluebell; the grounds of a church (bring it, lucifer).

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i eat chicken in the worst way

#winning in green park. laduree, hmxswedishhasbeens, starbucks, l'officiel and SUN.

we're from essex

we know people on the bar

we don't know who took this photo

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this woman was once a punk

this is vivienne westwood dressed as margaret thatcher.

sarah burton, creative director of alexander mcqueen, has just been spied going into the plush hotel that middleton is staying in tonight. yes, i am celebrating the royal wedding if wearing heels and a posh dress during the day and drinking something vaguely nice rather than whatever dirty cider is on offer in tesco can be considered "celebrating". just the idea of the future ("drink!") queen wearing a dress created by a company that is meant to represent something utterly and beautifully subversive is, in my opinion at least, inherently wrong.

i'll save the queen if someone throws a penny in my drink tomorrow, but she ain't no human being.

(tra la la, less ranty post next time, folks)

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