Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - A Bloggers' Day Out

It's been ages since I last saw Tania & Curtise so when we met yesterday we were far too busy catching up to take many photos (thanks to Tania for sharing hers). We chose a town we'd visited a couple of times previously because it ticked all the right boxes - within easy reach of Sheffield, Nottingham & Walsall and with all the essentials, a train station, loads of cheap charity shops and a Wetherspoons. I could tell you where it is but then I'd have to kill you....

After telling the girls that I wouldn't be buying any stock 'cos I couldn't be arsed with lugging it around all day, within minutes of entering the first chazza I'd snapped up a 1960s dress suit for the Kinky rails...promptly followed by a jacket, a dress, a trilby hat and a scarf.... and so the buying continued. I pounced on this lurex maxi knowing it would look incredible on Curtise and it did. The black Berketex midi dress was another of her purchases but although we loved Tania's vintage Austrian Loden suit it got left behind as it needed a bit too much work to tailor it to fit her tiny frame.

Tania's photos

 I loved the colour of this Angela Gore of London gauzy cotton maxi but felt it was a tad too demure and Little House On The Prairie for my liking and despite this 1970s wedding dress having the bastard massive sleeves of my dreams it went back on the rail. Jon and I celebrate 25 years of unwedded bliss on Saturday and, after a quarter of a century together, still have no desire to tie the knot. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Check out those bags - that's what I call a successful day of charity shopping! (Tania's photo)

After we'd scoured the chazzas, exchanged presents and devoured smashed avocado bagels, chips and beer in 'Spoons we returned to our favourite charity shop as the manager had kindly offered to sort out the stockroom and find us another rail of vintage to rummage through after lunch. 

Tania's photo

This gingham and cheesecloth maxi was a winner. I'm not sure if it was the naughty lace-up bodice or the label I loved the most.

Uninhibited - it's got my name written all over it!

Here's what else I bought:

Handmade cotton mini dress with pockets; 1960s lace dress suit; Gents' vintage scarf and feather trimmed trilby; Aquascutum bomber jacket.

These were my gifts from Curtise & Tania

Clockwise from top left: Moroccan leather babouches, Vintage swimsuit; handmade wrap top; Feather earrings; Taunton Vale ring holder; 1970s Indian cotton tunic

Shopping done we returned to 'Spoons for yet more booze and chat and then, all too soon, it was time to catch our respective trains home but not before we'd had a bash at the obligatory failed middle aged selfie at the railway station. None of the photos do us any favours which just as well we're old enough not to care.

What an ace day. We really need to meet up more often. Who's up for joining us next time?

See you soon.