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Fibremood Zita Quant-ified

As in Mary Quant-ified! I came home from my holidays keen to make another Fibremood Zita to fill a gap in my wardrobe for when it’s very hot. I spent hours dragging stuff out of my stash to find the very fabric I wanted. I began with some unevenly onion skin dyed cotton, but didn’t […]

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London was calling

With apologies to The Clash! Seriously though, London was calling as we had a new grandson to get to know, and I wanted to visit my sister and her family. We did have a break in Paris and Luxembourg, previously blogged, and the rest of the time we spent in London with brief forays to […]

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Lovely Luxembourg

Following our trip to Paris, we took the train to Luxembourg, which I haven’t visited since my European tour of 1976, but which I knew Mark would adore with the cobbled streets, quaint and beautiful buildings and breathtaking scenery. It seemed that everywhere we looked had a wow! factor. I will let you decide for […]

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A Paris sojourn

We had planned a quick trip to Paris as I hadn’t been since 1982 and then I discovered that Mark had never been. This surprised me as he and his father drove from Tasmania to Yorkshire in the 1960s, and so he’d seen a lot of Europe, but apparently as soon as they hit Switzerland […]

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