tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88562734413709478492024-02-19T14:05:47.579+00:00Vintage Vixen the 1950s style pinup girl: A retro girl's guide to life in high heelsA year in the life of the wardrobe of vintage vixen pin-up girl; the queen of corsetry and the ruler of the pencil skirt. She's cupcakealiciousJen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-75023270177745346782013-05-24T10:48:00.002+01:002013-05-24T12:36:54.987+01:00In the waiting room of life you best hope the magazines have some decent recipes<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We spend most of life in a proverbial waiting room, waiting for decisions, outcomes, to hear from people, for parcels, phone calls, text message. For people to finish what they are doing, for the lights to change, for our turn. It is as though some days are spent waiting for that eponymous "microwave minute" which is a lifetime compared to an "internet minute".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We laugh as a nation at our ability to form orderly queues and wait patiently and in good humour. Indeed I find the scene in The Hitch Hikers Guide side splitting but we really do under estimate it as a life skill. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I guess this explains why the same people keep popping back into our lives, they must be on the same appointment schedule. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's hoping there are decent recipes in the magazines whilst we are all waiting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I choose my black peplum dress today because it is a simple design that has striking shoulders. The gold beading is pretty and adds a reflective quality to the dress. </span><br />
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Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-35855949683029009582013-05-22T10:13:00.001+01:002013-05-22T10:57:41.845+01:00Adventures in predictive text<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every now and again I wish that money was able to buy me something useful like more meaningful conversation with a person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You see my Mum is to all intents and purposes deaf and my sister is deaf in one ear, I sometimes think I did particularly well to be just tone deaf. Now I have some fantastic conversations with both of them, just as they do with me. The tragedy is that on sometimes we just aren't having the same conversation! LOL</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was chatting with a former colleague yesterday, about the perils of predictive text and abbreviations. He told me a good story about a text from a family member, as I wistful thought. I'll see you and raise you 10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No one beats my sister when it comes to the perils of predictive text.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It started so innocently. A text that simply read "Can you pick Mike up on the way home?". Sure I think no problem, no idea who Mike is but he obviously needs a hand so I reply. "Sure, where from?". Response "The shop"............. "Which shop?"..........reply........."Any"..............so I have a moment "Look Caz, I am buggered if I am walking into random shops shouting Mike in the hope of acquiring the right one".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Who's Mike?".............sighs thinks pulling teeth must be less painful........ "The person you asked me to pickup on the way home." .........................."OOps milk".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What people say, what people mean, what people hear and what they understand are four quite radically different things it seems to me. The crossed wires of life are something that we should try to see the funny side of. A checked dress with lots of crossed lines seems to go well today. The basic design of this dress is called Ashley but with a lovely fawn, tan and beige check print. It has copper thread running through it which brings the material to life though it doesn't photograph well. The pleats at the neckline are beautifully done and draw attention to your face, the classic pencil dress and matching belt make this an easy to wear dress for most occasions. </span><br />
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Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-77568288692358075692013-05-21T11:00:00.001+01:002013-05-21T16:15:02.530+01:00You want to change something? Put some stress on it<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am always hearing people talk about changing the world, or about changing other people but rarely do we talk of changing ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Change and managing it is something I find interesting personally and professionally. It comes in two flavours and I'm not talking chocolate or vanilla. Change is either planned or forced. The difference between the two is simple our choice - we choose planned change and bought into it, forced change is as the name implies forced </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">upon us and we have no choice but to chew down on the sandwich of change and pretend that we like the flavour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our reactions to change are interesting. I must confess that when it comes to forced change I tend to like the "let's sweep the pieces of the chess board approach", my logic being you will remember where the important things were and keep them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The thing is if you want something to change you have to apply some stress or force so that you change and adapt, it is just like exercise, you increase the weight and stress your body it gets stronger. And over time you start to realise you are capable of things you weren't before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most people talk about stress like it is a bad thing, the reality is most of us have no problem what so ever with stress. It is anxiety that is the killer. So stress yourself out in the right way, make a change a positive one. A change that is going to have you queuing at the front of that door waiting for it to open.Or maybe the change you want to make is shutting a door and leaving what was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome constructive criticism, look at how your life might improve if you take the feedback in positive light.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"This is right." "This is wrong." We make such distinctions all the time. We hardly think twice about them, how often do we say 'This is wrong at the moment but if only I were to do this, or that, it would all be right!' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For some strange reason, too many of us equate creativity with speculation. If a leap of imagination is called for, or a change to the status quo is so much as considered, we suspect that we are dabbling in the realms of dangerous risk. Yet if you don't, what will ever change? What wonderful things are you missing out? The people, the places and the experiences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People who are you friends say things for a reason, their motivation is not to cause you pain, upset or berate you (we are all only human), instead maybe they said it because they want you to grow as a person and be the very best that you can possibly be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now when it comes to change then this dress is one of the biggest I have made, I would have never worn circle skirts if it wasn't for Marv. I trust her when it comes to telling me the truth about what looks good, because your friends want you to look and be your best. Anyway when Marv said wear the orange belt (orange is a funny colour if you have red hair) I knew to trust her. Friends make us move outside our comfort zones and they do it for your benefit not theirs, the trick is knowing who has your best interests at heart; and sometimes the answer to that question can be surprising.</span><br />
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Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-73228174927547383142013-05-20T09:46:00.002+01:002013-05-21T13:31:00.222+01:00The Grey Matter<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cogito ergo sum, or in English, "I think therefore I am" is a philosophical proposition put forwards by Rene Descartes. I have always thought it amusing that there is an extra tacit premise - one that is unstated which is essentially "Whatever has the property of thinking, exists". However the proper logical flaw of the argument is that existence is already assumed or presupposed in order for thinking to occur, not that existence is concluded from that thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we are on top of our game, we find it easy to summon the emotional reserve and intellectual depths required to tackle problems that face us, then at other times we are flat as a pancake. We have run out of the proverbial steam it is as though we just don't know where we are going, where we have been or where we are going to go next. At times like this it seems as though we can't make choices, either it doesn't make sense or it doesn't feel as though it fits with any picture about where we would like to see our next phase in life going. Sometimes when we can't see the future, we aren't quite sure of what we can see in the present and this in turn raises questions about our past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can't always be sure we can make the choices and be sure to get the results that we want, when this happens we can get disillusioned with our ability to make choices. Still though because life is a learning curve, there comes a point where we can make choices, we can make a commitment and see it through, or we can open a door and allow something to come through it, or even better we can walk through that door ourselves and allow ourselves to climb into a world outside our normal sphere of experience. That invitation to embark on an adventure, that chance to recognise more of your own self worth, to explore a new opportunity and explore more of life is already there you just have to be able to see it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it comes to "the grey matter" then I think this beautiful 1940s style stop staring number has it all. Classy and sophisticated with beautiful attention to detail. A dress to think thoughts and dream dreams whilst wearing.</span><br />
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Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-8510258606863842002013-05-19T11:27:00.001+01:002013-05-21T22:34:18.983+01:00Silver screen Sunday's with Ava<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been saving The Dambusters all week, and I am going to indulge today. I love that film, there is one line that makes it for me. Some lesser spotted RAF person is extolling the rarities of the Wellington bomber and that how did Barnes Wallace think he was going to convince anyone to lend him one for this project..............He simply replied "Tell them I designed it".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes it is cool to be the geek :) It's fair to say we dropped on when it came to geeks in WW2, Turing, Wallace, Whittle and Fleming. Necessity is after all the mother of invention. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Someone has to add the Geek Chic, it's not all socks, sandals and pipes you know. Ava in Green is a beautiful and comfortable dress and great for a little silver screen indulgence. I love the satin sheen and the rouching. I'm still having fun breaking those fashion rules :)</span><br />
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Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-11614483106117864162013-05-18T07:50:00.000+01:002013-05-18T14:23:53.967+01:00Courageous creations, can you refuse the muse?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beethoven’s symphonies were courageous creations. So, too, were Picasso’s paintings, Byron’s poems, Einstein's theories. What if any of these great artists and scientists had decided to refuse the muse. All were human. All had doubts about their own ability - or the ’worth’ of their contribution. All of them too, had bills to pay, chores to perform, social and domestic commitments to honor. They didn't have to be develop their talents. They were not obliged to believe in themselves. Are you any less special? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well then... what SHOULD you be doing now? This is a time for developing your talent and using your imagination. Beyond the mountains of reality lie oceans of ideas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never forget that creativity contains a precious truth all of its own. The Experiences, the sights, the sensations and the people that inspire us to create are a reflection of our inner selves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The most precious thing that any of us has is ourselves (not your house, car or money - but plain old you). When we are inspired to dance, to write stories or to compose poetry, write code or experiments we show and share a part of ourselves. A treasured token and this is the greatest gift any of us can ever give, part of ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being creative is also about breaking the rules, and sometimes you have to be your own muse. I decided to inspire myself by breaking some fashion rules :) I'll let you guess which ones!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes we don't want to acknowledge the patterns preferring instead to remain ignorant to the truth and this is the one of the reasons why so many people struggle to recognise when they’re being used. A person is using you when they avail themselves of something or someone as a means of accomplishing their chief aim. They exploit what they perceive as a vulnerability in order to gain an advantage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While there are instances when it’s quite obvious that you’re being used, like when somebody suddenly starts spending a lot of time around you and then asks you for something and then once they’ve got it, they are nowhere to be seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being used is like the boiled frog syndrome (if you were to drop a frog into boiling water, they notice and hop out, but put them in a cool pan and turn the heat up slowly). It is similar to abuse, it can creep up on you and catch you unawares. When you recognise it, you may doubt yourself, and put it down to you imagining things especially if you tend to "see the best in people", or maybe you are like me, with too much honour inside you to ever conceive of dishonor in anyone you would care for and call friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most users when accused of this behaviour, won’t hold their hands up to it simply because it’s not how they want to be perceived, this is not a side of their personality they want to face or even think about. They see their actions in a more benevolent light as if to say that they’re doing you some favour, giving you an excursion away from your humdrum life or giving you a dose of their magical charm that for some reason they think you should be thrilled to get.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They rationalise their behaviour and justify it to themselves by kidding themselves into believing that you’re getting something out of it, even if what it is, isn’t much, or not what you wanted, or isn’t on mutual terms and has been "given" in a manner that allows them to "profit" from you even though you’ll feel increasingly drained. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They overvalue what they think that they’re "giving" you, but it’s not "giving"; it’s a hidden agenda. It’s also exceedingly patronising.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you challenge them they say that they "aren't that bad" or they try to reset the relationship to different rules. It's all got to be on their terms.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> They aren't someone who responds to real life, if you go for an interview they don't ask how it went, if you were a good Samaritan they don't recognise it and all the other joys of life's trials and tribulations. You have to realise it has nothing to do with you as a person it is just quite literally that life is "all about them". This is because from their perspective your life exists solely to provide whatever it is they want. You are not a real person to them, just an object to be used for their self gratification.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You’re being taken for a ride, possibly literally…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Users are distinguished from people who maybe did start out with "good intentions" and have screwed up royally. These people recognise they got it wrong and seek to make amends or at the very least stop the behaviour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The user will veer between seeking to get their needs, wishes and expectations met aggressively (by force), possibly with a smile on their face telling you how you’ll both benefit, or passive aggressively, through obstruction and basically saying one thing, doing another. They will not care about the impact on you because they will continue using until they’ve got what they want or you cut off their supply.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you feel like you’re being used, you’re very likely being used – friendship or a relationship <em>feels</em> and looks like friendship or a relationship. Using, looks and feels like using. </span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every relationship has some hope in it but not all relationships have reality in them. Choose to enter into and copilot one that has both.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once you suspect or know that you’re being taken for a ride it is time to, stop, look, listen and step back and adjust your boundaries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it comes to boundaries it makes me think of every Englishman's home is castle. So what better way to remind myself of the value and importance of boundaries than to wear my beautiful country cottage print dress by Bernie Dexter. I love these printed dresses, I have the winter one they are just so much fun I can't help but smile when I wear it. It is a happy dress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-2015561046780630592013-05-16T08:19:00.001+01:002013-05-16T19:35:25.867+01:00Is that an elephant skeleton in your closet?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We all have skeletons in our closets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my experience there are two kinds, there are those skeletons have been there so long that they resemble the models that teachers wheel out for anatomy class and they have been hanging around long enough to have developed a clean, clinical, appearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The skeletal elephant on the other hand dwells in the territory of "what you may have to regret" or in the area of "what someone else now needs to own up to and make amends for" and all those other question that very obviously stand, but for the convenience of one or other party is ignored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We don't ask these questions because we are scared that we will be 'ruined' by the answer, so we think we would rather live life not knowing so we keep skeletons and elephant skeletons in our closet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The space they fill stops us accepting new things into our lives. New things come in when there are empty spaces or gap, if it is full of skeletons then there is no room for the new things. Worse still we don't try thing for fear of failure or rejection, we shy away from the difficult conversations and fail to reply or listen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Liberating ourselves from the elephant skeletons is something we should all try more often. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plus you have to admit they take up precious space better occupied by dresses!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part of me wanted to wear one of my outrageous print dresses, or something bright and noticeable but instead I want to wear something that is subtle and hidden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a beautiful 1940s style suit and I love the feel of the material it is so silky and the subtle pattern in the weave makes it really beautiful, the buttons at the neck add interest and draw attention to your face.</span><br />
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Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-17172636105463481802013-05-15T06:38:00.001+01:002013-05-15T21:14:50.667+01:00Trials, Planetary Laws and a Lawyer's unexpected patent <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This morning in 1536, Anne Boleyn woke up in the Tower of London and went to face her trial. She knew she would be sentenced to death, but there was still her daughter to preserve. She was charged with treason, adultery and incest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1618 Johannes Kepler confirmed his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion. It was ground breaking as it moved away from the idea of perfect circles, and well he was outrageous, he actually used physics in astronomy! The establishment didn't like that. Without these discoveries there would have been no foundation for Newton's work on gravity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1718, James Puckle and London Lawyer patented the first machine gun, it fired 9 shots per minute and was called the "Defense gun" though it is best known as the puckle gun. As with many ideas and inventions the design was ahead of it's time and so never achieved mass production because the components were too complex to be manufactured accurately by the gunsmiths of time. Indeed it was said that the gun "only wounded those who hold shares therein".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each of these events shaped the world we live in today, Anne Boleyn's daughter defeated a superpower and set us on the road to empire. Kepler's law gave us space travel, satellites, mobile phones, communication and well you can see how James Puckle changed the world on the news every day. It is the ripples of history on the pond of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today it had to be a dress with stripes because the way the bands follow are like the peak and troughs of the waves in the pond, it makes sense that it is blue too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Dress:</b> Pinup Girl Clothing</span><br />
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<br />Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-14445184798820184732013-05-14T08:12:00.000+01:002013-05-21T11:58:24.912+01:00Just look into your heart my friend<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you today just the way you are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It takes a big personality to do that, to be real which probably explains why all my friends are different and a long way from so called "normal" which equates in my book to average. Who wants to be or know mediocre people? I have enough mind numbingly dull people to deal with in every day life without inviting them into my personal life. I like to know people who are unforgettable, definitely different people who life has shaped whilst they have shaped their lives. The people with real strength of character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is a rag tag band of people who do unusual things and don't think quite like other people do, some people say we are "random" but we aren't, we're just two standard deviations away from the mean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We try to see the best in people and bring it out in them whilst knowing we sometimes fail to give ourselves this gift. So we are great friends to other people, but at times horrendous friends to ourselves. In fact if a person treated one of our friends the way we treat ourselves, no doubt words would be had, or at least an eye brow raised.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are those times when you want to say to your friends - If you want, then start to laugh, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you must, then start to cry but be yourself in that moment don't hide. If you are going to be accepted or rejected then make sure it is for the real you and in those moments when you doubt yourself just </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">look into your heart, that is your true self. If that fails borrow "Merv's Special Specs" and take a look at how I see you. <a href="http://vintagevixenpinup.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-things-my-father-said.html" target="_blank">I inherited the special mathematics tinted glasses from my Dad</a> - now with added code monkey software upgrades :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peoples lives intersect and you can never tell the impact or influence that you have had on a person; you might have only met them once, you might see them every day or you might never have met. It doesn't matter the only distance between friends is a thought, and as some of you know when you have a monkey for a friend, we are for life not just for Christmas. Plus life is much more fun and interesting when you have a monkey in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I could take the pain I would, if I can lighten the load I will but above all I'll just be there when you need me most, whether you're in intensive care in a foreign country, your big ends just gone on the motorway, when you need a hug from super long monkey arms or when you just need a cheerful emails with questionable jokes because you are along way from home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Given that my friends are for the best part bonkers just like me, I thought I would wear my stop staring! Mad men dress (hehe). It is a bold beautiful check pattern that illustrates wonderfully how friends intersect your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think this dress is charming I love the offset neckline with the fold over and the button, I like the paneled high waist as it accentuates your curves. It is a pretty and practical work dress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And each road leads you where you want to go</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if one door opens to another door closed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If it's cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But more than anything, more than anything</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is that this life becomes all that you want it to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your dreams stay big, your worries stay small</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You never need to carry more than you can hold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And while you're out there gettin' where you're gettin' to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And wants the same things too</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yeah, this is my wish</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you never look back but you never forget</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the ones who love you and the place you left</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you always forgive and you never regret</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And you help somebody every chance you get</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, you'd find God's grace in every mistake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And always give more than you take</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is that this life becomes all that you want it to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On this day in 1940 Winston Churchill gave his first speech to the House after having been offered the King's commission as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the first year of World War II.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I would say to the House as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs — Victory in spite of all terror — Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I admire Churchill, people thought he was wrong about Hitler, when he constantly warned people about Germany rearming. In fact in his memoirs he refers to this time as the "wilderness years". People actually thought he was crazy, I think this happens to people who can see things for what they, who can cut through the smoke and mirrors and say it like it is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So let's see how good you are at seeing beyond the propaganda and new speak that people generate about one another:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which of these candidates would be your choice?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Candidate A</b> associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists. He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Candidate B</b> was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a half bottle of whisky every evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Candidate C</b> is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks an occasional beer and hasn't had any extramarital affairs and gets up at 6am taking in a morning walk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The chances are you just voted for Candidate C - well done!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You just voted a genocidal Maniac into power :) I am sure your parents and HR are proud. You choose Hitler!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now don't get me wrong I have worked with and met lots of people who are capable of having the wool well and truly pulled over there eyes, and it is a shame. It is a shame because they are the good people who stand by and do nothing, they are the "I'm alright Jack" crowd. The people who care about power and title not people and jobs and real lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In case you are interested A is Roosevelt and B is Churchill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So food for thought, how many judge on propaganda or what they hear whilst ignoring what there eyes can see? If you do that, then bare in mind you're the kind of person people like Hitler needs to get into power. You are the good people who stand by and do nothing, for that is all you need to do for evil to succeed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People are always telling me I wear my heart on my sleeve so for a change today I am wearing it on my pockets :) I love the simple sweet home made feel of this skirt. The navy with the small white polka dots in a circle skirt with the contrasting heart pockets with little bows. The halterneck is sweet too, but the outfit is made by the pockets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Top:</b> Halterneck in white by Vivien of Holloway</span><br />
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<br />Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-80128214373362810182013-05-12T12:20:00.000+01:002013-05-13T19:22:03.999+01:00Character contributes to beauty<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="maintext"><span class="firstword">Character</span> contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="maintext">Her pretty face first attracts a person who wants to flirt,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="maintext">Her kind heart is what attracts a lover, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="maintext">Her strength of character now that, that is what attracts a man.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="maintext">I am always telling people, care more for your character than for your reputation. Your character is what you think of yourself, your reputation is merely what other people think of you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="maintext">The reason that your character is so important is simple. That's the person who stares back at you in the mirror. I think the reason that judgemental people irritate me so much is because they aren't the people looking into the other persons mirror! I mean how arrogant are you to think that what is appropriate for you is appropriate for everyone, not to mention incredibly narrow minded.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there is wisdom in the tale of Snow White, the fairest of them all, are the people who see the beauty of their true self, their character. Vain people, see only what people think of them and can't face themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Dress:</b> Grace by Pinup Girl Clothing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When experiences that we so often class as "bad" happen in our lives, some of us can start to think, I must have been really terrible in a past life to deserve this. That isn't the case. The reality is that they are being given the opportunity to be an enlightened being who came here to learn from the experiences of life, and sometimes that means life teaches us a hard lesson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime and it is your job to figure out which it is and what they have come to show, teach or give to you. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In life you will realise there is a role for everyone you meet. Some will test you, some will use you, some will love you, and some will teach you. The ones who are truly important bring out the best in you. They are the rare amazing people who remind you why it's worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People get so focused on goals and destinations in life that they often forget it is about journey. It is the path we take that we often share with other people, in some cases we don't get to travel as far down the road with them as we would have liked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes it is all in your memory so what better way to remember all these lovely things and moments than with a beautiful dress. The scene of a poppy field is gorgeous. I love the fluffy clouds and the bright blue skies with the trees standing watch over the poppy field. It is a calming scene and I adore that it is on a dress. It really is a work of art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In another life, or a parallel universe I am cooking Lamb Nihari, Tarka Dall, Spicy tea chickpeas and Saag Aloo today. "Happy Birthday Adi xx Gone but not forgotten". In this life I'm hosting the "Not a birthday party, party"</span></div>
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Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-31365897709292936382013-05-10T08:08:00.001+01:002013-05-13T19:23:37.771+01:00The disambiguation of Atomic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find disambiguation amusing, I like the way that certain words fire lots of patterns in my mind. Atomic, is one of those words. I can't help but have a moment of adding "icity" and reminding myself that atomicity is a fundamental principal of good database design, I think of atomic power, the atom, atomic numbers, Deborah Harry and heaven for fend Kerry Katona, at which point my mind has a mini cringe. Uggs boots, fake tan..........</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Atomic kitten, it isn't even as though it is some clever play on Schrödinger's cat! It is just like rap star who insist on being "ice cold", which is actually really rather warm, now -273.15<span style="line-height: 15.82px;">°C or absolute zero. That's cool, geek cool ;) Which leads me on to "glamour" models, I'll be impressed by the woman who calls herself "Blue Topaz" as gemologically speaking that has perfect cleavage!</span></span></div>
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<br />Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-11478762015956380762013-05-09T08:16:00.001+01:002013-05-09T08:16:14.810+01:00The Courage of our Convictions <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ability to let go, to change tack, to rethink and to move on, is not just a precious freedom; it is an essential tool for anyone who aspires to climb life's most important ladders. The ladder of self discovery, grant yourself that option, far too often we create our own prisons and enchain ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We create a cage from which we attempt to change the world, or other people, yet we never talk about changing ourselves, of letting going of our self imposed limits as to what we believe we are capable of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">We should have the courage of our convictions but we should not be a convict to them. Sometimes it is about holding on and letting go.</span></div>
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<br />Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-73921310274939200232013-05-08T08:30:00.001+01:002013-05-08T08:30:42.962+01:00Check - A surprisingly diverse word<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have to like like the word CHECK. It is great and incredibly diverse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like the simplicity of checks, essentially just squares of colour but they are so pretty. This simple print has white, pink and black squares running through a dove grey back ground. I like the combinations of colours. The dress is in the secretary style with a wide collar and matching grey buttons. This is a nice dress for work and is great for spring. </span></div>
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<br />Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-46778329185160615292013-05-07T08:12:00.000+01:002013-05-07T08:12:01.658+01:00Mathematics, Beethoven and the patterns in nature<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision. The use of mathematical devices is deeply embedded in Beethoven's music. Therefore, this is one of the best places to dig for information on the relationship between mathematics and music. I'm not saying that other composers do not use mathematical devices. Practically every musical composition has mathematical underpinnings. However, Beethoven was able to extend these mathematical devices to the extreme. It is by analyzing these extreme cases that we can find more convincing evidence on what types of devices he used.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mathematics, music, art and nature are all so intricately interconnected. Mathematics is a beautiful language with which to describe the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fibonacci series and the greek golden number and fractal patterns are all around us in everyday prints, nature and paintings. So as a method of appreciating the patterns of nature I thought I would wear my miami print dress. The cool crisp green and the life chiffon makes this a pretty spring dress and great for the sunshine. It is my magic monkey banana leaf dress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beethoven's 9th Symphony was one of my Dad's favourite pieces of music, I used to dance to this when I was little. My best friend Les like my Dad is a Mathematics teacher in Vienna, so the Vienna connection makes me think of all the fun I have had on my adventures in Austria. Pfirsichspritzer and pool, I am honoured to have been asked out to pool night on so many occasions. It is highly entertaining, opera singers and radio news readers and that's before we get to the mathematicians!,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a beautiful day which makes a change for the Bank Holiday, personally though I am leaving the sunbathing to Boudi, who partially qualifies under the heading "dog", she is bonkers rather than mad but we wouldn't change her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am having a creative day today which is pleasant so I am wearing my what a catch shorts with a white halterneck by Vivien of Holloway. If you can't make it to the seaside you can always bring the seaside to you. All you need is the power of your imagination, today is a day to dream dreams, think big thoughts and wait for the dice to land.</span></div>
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<br />Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-49652072804367031572013-05-05T13:15:00.001+01:002013-05-05T20:38:26.803+01:00Success is simple, you just have to keep getting up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Success is a simple thing, all you have to do is keep getting back up. It isn't about never been knocked over, or everything going to plan. It is about getting knocked down 10 times and getting back up 11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We talk about good and bad times, we don't want the good times to end even though we know that eventually all things run their course; and well the bad times can't pass fast enough. Life is that symphony played between the two. It was so beautifully summed up in the opening line of a tale of two cities - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." - Khalil Gibran </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lace is delicate just like roses, and pretty like them too. I love the floral pattern on the lace overlay of this dress with the sheer sleeves. I like green it is one of my favourite colours to wear and it looks lovely combined with the lace and the pencil skirt. It reminds me that I can be delicate and strong, it just about how you deal with the thorns.</span></div>
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Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-79902988934890623882013-05-04T10:14:00.001+01:002013-05-04T14:09:48.835+01:00Happy Star Wars Day! The long and short of it<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like this outfit, the cardigan is really soft and snuggly and I love the sailor collar with the anchors on it. It looks really sweet, the red shorts are my favourite tailored ones from pin up girl clothing in a chirpy bright red and as ever heels. </span></div>
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Jen Woodheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068173992452077094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856273441370947849.post-42959493565485312762013-05-03T07:56:00.001+01:002013-05-12T23:37:04.459+01:00Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am always telling my friends to stop borrowing worry, and to cross certain bridges when they come to them and not to over think the obstacle before they actually have to face it. It is like the lyrics from the Baz Luhrman song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find the concept of solving algebra with bubblegum ironic, probably because I am violently allergic to chewing gum and most likely bubblegum. Solving algebraic equations has no need to be fatal, so no fear of me attempting the bubblegum approach, but then again I am fab at algebra so it isn't something I worry about!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is best when you keep it simple, so try to change the things you can, accept the things you can't and hope that you are clever enough to spot the difference. Oh and if all else fails try to see the funny side of things, it is good to laugh, laughter is soul food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A simple but stylish dress today in Olive green and Cream. I like the wide collar, and the upturn on the sleeves I think they are pretty and draw attention to your face. The buttons and the 3/4 built in belt which ties in an adorable bow at the back finish this off in a sweat and subtle manner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The quotes above make me think about what I call my New Life, this is the one that I might not have chosen for myself. For a while I wasn't particularly keen on it either, this was until I realised that we have to be willing to give up the life we planned to live the life we were meant to have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today's dress is an important dress to me, it symbolises my New Life. It was the first non black dress that I bought in my New Life as I was easing my way back into the concept of colours. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It needed some work from Grandma, and when I tried it on at her house I will confess - Marv, Grandma and I all welled up and had a moment. You see I want this New Life not my old one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The classic dove grey combined with a powder pink is feminine and understated. The attention to detail is wonderful, the little flicks and buttons on the sleeves, the piping around the neckline. The lovely pin tucks down the front with the sweet like round pink buttons. The belt and pockets are just the icing on the cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back to May day though, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lilac blossoms in May and it is a beautiful flower and I love the smell of it. Given that </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought I would wear my lilac Jackie O suit today. I had a lilac outside my bedroom window as a child I love peeking over the purple clouds of flowers to see the world beyond my window, so for me this is the colour of spring.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now this Jackie O suit is super special, possibly because only a few weeks ago it was "a little bit big", Grandma did look a little shocked when she realised that I could put the skirt on without undoing it and that it fell off my hips. OOPS! Grandam said "a little?". Ah well it is all relative. So this is totally revamped and restyled by the seamstress to the superstars Grandma :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Hawaii five 0 day Caz! You are the best big little sister I could have asked for. I hope you have a wonderful day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hard as it is to believe on this day in 1963 my sister was born, and it was a momentous event. My big sister is truly tiny, she make me look ginormous which I kind of enjoy it isn't often that I get to be the biggest LOL </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her tiny frame hides a huge heart and a large laugh. I have to confess most of the amusing family stories generally end up through series of unfortunate circumstances with my sister and I sharing a bed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Hawaii 5 0 day :) Given the celebration of 50 glorious years of my big sister and the hawaiian theme I just had to wear my hawaiian ocean dress. I remember explaining it to Jo - "Yeah it's fab it's turquoise, it's got turtles and dolphins and fish and atolls and everything on it"..........She was a bit worried as I was wearing it to her friends wedding, but when you see it, it works. I love it, we call it my finding nemo frock (there are no clown fish on the hawaiian ocean print dress).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. London Calling - The Clash because it is my sisters favourite</span></div>
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