Not only is it Friday, but we’ve also hit a pocket of my favourite kind of weather in Sydney.  Sure the mornings are brutally dark but daylight saving ends this weekend and then we get to have dark evenings back.  And yes, the weather each night changes so that often you need 2 sets of pyjamas going (winter and summer) and you sometimes need to change into both sets in the same night.  But the air is so crisp now and the heat of the day isn’t accompanied by humidity.

The converse of the pyjama conundrum is that your day wear can be just as dichotomous.  A dressed up short sleeved T and trousers for work one day.

As long as I’m convinced that the necklace and cardigan together are ‘inspired’ styling then that’s all that matters.  Cardi and necklace – Marni at H+M, tank – Big W, black trousers – GAP, belt – Country Road (it’s not ageing well….).  Colour co-ordinated hair elastic on my left wrist worn in celebration of my hair solidly hitting shoulder length.

And a bit of an art installation around your neck and spots across your chest the next.  I’m having so much fun with my H+M purchases at the moment, those hours sitting on the newspaper on the cold pavement are a distant memory….

The thing with Marni is that like life, each piece doesn’t come with an instruction manual.  How high or how low does one tie the necklaces?  Are they necklaces or neckpieces?  Is it acceptable to have so much competing for attention on your top half – a bold print and a bold accessory?  I will have to research these queries, I think.  And you know how my research goes.  It starts with a casual review of NAP which progresses to contemplation of a purchase and then a dummy run shopping basket fill….  A few days later, I return to the site and find my shopping basket still full and then credit card details are entered.  Perhaps it truly is a blessing in disguise that my laptop is hating wireless broadband right now.

So with the prospect of a wireless-less (double negative but it is actually true, I did think it through before typing) weekend ahead of me, perhaps I will have time to familiarize myself with these new pencil grips of mine.

Regular readers and those who have had the mixed blessing of a hand written note from me will know that I have shocking handwriting.  I also now have the added challenge of around 200 black biros which I’m finding a bit hard to write properly with.  So I bought some triangular holders a few months back which sort of helped but they’ve all now burst at the seams. Don’t know why, those darn skinny Kilometricos haven’t gained an ounce since the first wore the holders in February….

So I ordered these sculpted beauties which apparently are the ‘industry standard’ in ergonomic pen holder design and are useful for both left and right handers.  As you can see, it’s early days yet.  Too early for any improvement in my handwriting.

Have a lovely day, wherever you may be.