"Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the police academy. And they were each assigned very hazardous duties but I took them all away from all that and now they work for me. My name is Charlie.

Cue Charlies Angel music. Anyone remember Sabrina, Kris and Kelly? I wanted to be Kelly - yeah - in my dreams. Wrong nationality, one foot too short, three sizes too big. Like I said - in my dreams. And for some reason, my friends always made me play Sabrina because I had the shortest hair. These things stick in your brain you know.

Anyway, the above sprung to mind after I had a little play with some old jeans and teamed them with a  denim shirt. I'm doing that thing where everyone is wearing boyfriend jeans so I've got it in my head I want to wear something else. I'm not sure the something else are these old jeans but hey ho they were in one of my many dressing up boxes and I didn't have to go far for them. Getting me out of the door in this double denim ensemble might be another thing altogether. I may very well be laughed out of the playground for wearing this one ... hence the fact that I'm "trialling" this in the safety of my home.

Did you like the alliteration in the title? I'm quite proud of myself that I even remembered what alliteration was from the old English Lit days.

Well we had a couple of days of sunshine - what can I say? It's absolutely lurrvely. It just makes you feel so much better, puts a smile on your face, makes you ditch the grey clothes and put on something like this :

Right, everyone has a favourite colour. Mine is grey. Ben knows this - he asks me quite often hoping that one day I will say something like blue which coincidentally is his favourite colour but no - I always answer grey. I took him in to Zara recently (poor boy) and showed him three coloured sweatshirts "What do you think Ben? The pink or the blue?" "Blue" he replied . I knew he would say blue - it's his favourite colour and he poo poos anything pink because he is a boy (that's his logic for the time being). "Okay Ben, blue or grey?". "Grey" replied Ben. "But I thought you would pick blue because that's your favourite colour". "No - grey is your favourite colour, you wear grey all the time - just get the grey. Can we go now?". Well that's telling me then.

So yes, I like grey (a lot) and the usual basic neutrals (black, white, taupe and navy) but I have noticed that with the exception of "fashion" colours which pop in from season to season (remember autumn/winter's berry tones?), I have another favourite colour which I have a soft spot for. Yellow. But not wishy washy pastel pale yellow. I like a nice bright yellow. Yes siree.

I think I have only become aware of this in the last year or so when I did a quick scan of the wardrobe. It started a few years back with a yellow spotty silk/cotton blouse from Whistles. Couldn't resist the colour - it was happy. Then I bought my Aubin & Wills rain jacket. Bright bright yellow. Happy, happy, happy. This was followed by a yellow striped Breton from Jack Wills and last summer brought me a bright citrus yellow Topshop jumper which in turn brought me lovely compliments but was such a boooger to wear because of the cut and length that I eventually assigned it to the charity bag. Then winter came and a lovely mohair acidy yellow H&M scarf came to live with me. Just after, a replacement yellow jumper from Aubin & Wills filled the gap of the horrid Topshop one. Whoops - nearly forgot. I also have two pairs of yellow sandals. Oh and another yellow stripe cardigan which I really did forget about.

I think that qualifies yellow as my other colour.

All the indicators are giving out that yellow is going to be big this year. I'm not sure I want it to be because it's my other colour but when Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton is splashing it around like no ones business, I'm just going to have to like it and lump it. Oh well - at least I don't need to spend money on this trend :o)

So if you can't beat them, join them. Here's my yellow picks from Zatchels to start you off  :



So tell me, what's your other favourite colour?

I went to London on Saturday - the second time in the last four months. The reason? A bloggy meet up. After my little rendezvous with Marlene from Chocolate, Cookies and Candies last November, a few of my other bloggy friends all got in touch with each other and said "We want to do that too!"

So here's a few pics of a few of us (some were in the bar ;o)) and what it looks like when you get a group of bloggy women together who have never met each other before with the exception of myself and Marlene. 

We felt like we knew each other from the blogs but the actual meeting of people you read about in the flesh is quite strange. Some people are exactly as you imagined them because their personalities shine through in the way they write. But the weirdest thing is listening to people talk. When you hear people talk and their accents come through, it brings a whole new slant to the way you read their blogs because whether you realise it or not, you read what other people write in your own voice and how you perceive them to be. Avril from School Gate Style actually has the most gorgeous softly spoken Irish accent, Marlene from Chocolate, Cookies and Candies has her cosmopolitan Kiwi mix, Joanna from Poppys Style hailing originally from Lancashire is a bit of English posh mixed with 11 years of Atlanta which is really unique and lovely. And me? Well I was born and bred in Yorkshire - I sound a bit flat cap and whippets to everybody outside of Yorkshire. In the nicest possible way.

Now if I were to sum up what I think some of our initial thoughts and first impressions of each other were, it went and sounded a little like this :

So a curious mix of ladies but we were all bonded by the fact that (1) we all blog (2) we're all mums and (3) we all like clothes a bit (admit it Marlene ;o)).

Ladies -  Helen from Flaky Fashionista, Kat from Does my Bum Look 40 in This, Fiona from Avenue 57, Avril from School Gate Style, Joanna from Poppy's Style, Marlene from Chocolate, Cookies and Candies, Natalie from GlamRosie, Beth from StyleGuile - Thank you I had a fantastic time - it was a pleasure to meet you all :o)

And sorry - I couldn't resist putting in this last pic: