1. Tomorrow is Friday
2. There is only just over a month until I head off to Thailand for 2 weeks to stay with my oldest friend (as in I’ve known her my whole life, not that she is an octogenarian). I CANNOT WAIT.
3. My lovely friend Eleanor moves in on Saturday
4. Peter is only on holiday for another week
5. My new perfume smells amazing
6. My god daughter is really cute. On Monday, when we were at the cemetery, it could have been really depressing. The stone cross to mark the grave of my grandmother, grandfather and my great-grandparents had been knocked down somehow and although it had been ‘tidied’ (ie: was placed in line with the grave site), it was still pretty upsetting. Luckily Alice was on hand to gurgle and squeal and make everyone go ‘aw’ and feel a little less sad.

I was sunning myself in Primrose Hill

Everything on this site is gold. It seems perchance a tad faddy, but hey. Things I quite like on the site are:

Because really, who doesn’t need a gold egg tray?

Really, I am surprised there aren’t more cool things on the site. It’s a great theme, but the products are a little disappointing.  Maybe they’re just getting started…

(No, dad, this is not my actual Christmas wish list)

I’ve been looking at a lot of design porn websites lately - You are my fave, Oh Joy! Poppytalk, The Lil Bee etc. I love love love them. They make me feel like I want to be creative and paint and do craft and sew my own clothes and have a beautiful home with amazing art and fresh flowers every day. They also generally highlight some great products and I live vicariously through them thinking *one day, that chandalier/ridiculously overpriced rug/walk in closet/whatever will be mine*.

But lately I have started to notice that they are all obsessed with weddings! It’s kind of embarassing (for me). Like, at the weekend, I was looking at some couples’ “perfect day” and felt a bit caught out when Peter looked over my shoulder. He didn’t say anything, but he did raise an eyebrow. But I was on a design site! And I was reading it a) because I was scrolling down the page and reading all the new posts, b) because the pictures were pretty and c) my friend is thinking about starting a vintage crockery hire business and there was lots of amazing vintage crockery and I liked the styling, but it did make me feel like I had to reassure him that I wasn’t like, picking out our china yet or anything.

I know that the reason weddings feature so much is because they all work as stylists and therefore have a day job styling (or photographing) weddings, but then I started noticing other things. Like, are there any single women writing these kinds of blogs? Because they all seem to be married, with perfect little babies or looking to adopt and their husbands are all just so (and generally agree to be photographed and featured on the blogs) (one of them even hijacked the design blog to write a post about the blogger’s birthday and tell everyone how much he loved her. I mean, really super cute, but really!?). Everything is so perfect. And I know that this is all part of the package and you probably wouldn’t show photos where your drunk friend had stubbed out a cigarette on your sofa or what have you, but still. Where are all the singletons with messy private lives but beautiful homes? Are they all in fashion (or publishing, ahem) rather than interior design?