Cherries and Coats.

Hello, hello from day off Tuesday land. Where life is looking and feeling decidedly less frantic than it was yesterday.

Baked oats for the week’s breakfasts.

I’ve been for a slow swim with the nannas at the aquatic centre, done a bit of meal planning and prep and whiled away a bit of time treading the lino at everyone’s favourite and newly revamped retailer… good old Kmart.

Travel mugs.

Where there was lots to see and almost convince myself that I needed.

Multi use cake stand – $19.

And lots of other things that would normally only be available on Aldi special buy days but happily seem to be here to stay on the shelves at Kmart (for only a few dollars more than at Aldi).

A very glam slow cooker for $29.

As tempting as all of that was, I stuck to my shopping list and treated myself to a couple of punnets of cherries. For some reason, the supermarkets are all stocking American cherries at the moment and $3.59 for 325g was too good to pass up. Our own season isn’t until the end of the year and I wouldn’t have thought cherries could travel so well all the way from the US to here (look how well us humans deal with the flight) but there we have it and who am I to complain if it helps me get Preschooler SSG’s daily fruit intake up to what established guidelines recommend it should be.

Oh, and that sea salt dark chocolate is pretty special too…. Love your work as always, Aldi.

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Prince George’s latest adventure. Let’s discuss.

Can you believe he’s nearly ~~a threenager~~ three? He’s with mum and dad at the Royal International Air Tattoo. I love the headphones. In later photos, the prince’s polo shirt is crammed with special visitor stickers and there may even have been a public meltdown involving dying swan tears and attitude. Welcome to the club, Prince George and may the parenting memes that pop up on your parents’ Facebook give them a laugh when they need it most.

I don’t need much of a reason to go down memory lane through the Duchess of Cambridge’s wardrobe but in case you were wondering, today’s reason was winter coat inspiration.

www.bellenews.com

This was by Catherine Walker and worn to touch down in New Zealand, April 2014.

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And this purple beauty is by Seraphine and was worn in New York later that year in December.

www.jigsawclothing.com.au

And this is the coat I just bought from Jigsaw. It was the purple (described by Jigsaw as more of a dark orchid) that caught my eye. Very Duchess of Cambridge in Seraphine in New York but in a cut that’s very Sydney Shop Girl out and about on the streets of Sydney.

It’s the Ren coat and made from a wool and alpaca blend with horn buttons. It’s almost too glamorous and chic for the likes of me but at 50% off, how could I resist? I’ve been looking for a luxe coat all winter and somehow everything in sensible black didn’t quite look or fit right. So I went with this purple and will see how it all goes in real life when it arrives.

Do you have a favourite coat? Is it sensible black or in a statement colour?

Are you loving these imported out of season cherries we’ve been blessed with this month?

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