Time Travel Is Dangerous!

Here's to us! I could say that we'd treated ourselves to a night out to celebrate our 33rd Never Had A Wedding Anniversary but that'd be a lie, we don't need an excuse to go out and enjoy ourselves, we just do it.

On Wednesday evenings at the Light you can get an artisanal pizza and see a film for £15. Last night we saw Time Travel Is Dangerous, a delightfully daft mockumentary by local director, Chris Reading, a low budget adventure about vintage shop proprietors, Megan and Ruth, who discover an abandoned time machine enabling them to travel through time & collect vintage treasures to sell in their ailing Muswell Hill store, not realising the irreparable damage time travel has on the universe. Megan and Ruth are vintage sellers in real-life and their shop, The Cha-cha-cha Emporium really exists. Narrated by Stephen Fry with stars including Johnny Vegas, Brian Blessed and Jane Horrocks, the film is a mad mix of Shaun of the Dead and Bargain Hunt with shades of Wes Anderson. 

Off-the-wall, silly and great fun, just like our relationship!

It wasn't only the film director, Chris Reading who was a local, the costume designer Vicki Jones is a Walsall girl and we were treated to a Q&A session after the film. Amongst other fascinating facts, we learnt that Chris found what would be the time travel machine (a vintage fairground bumper car) on a late night trawl of eBay. It cost him £99 and lives in his flat! 

 The previous day, we'd managed to squeeze in a swim before Jon dropped me off at the dental surgery. I was expecting a root canal but my dentist Omario tested the offending tooth before starting work and discovered that the nerve was still alive so I only had to have a filling ...yay! 

I'd not worn this Afghan-style dress for a while, originally from Urban Outfitters but bought via Vinted for a fraction of the original price. It's one of those ideal for swimming dresses with no faffy fastenings so can be pulled off and back on again with ease. 

I do like a mash-up! Along with my Indian-made dress and handmade in El Paso cowboy boots...

I'm wearing a Hand of Fatima pendant given to me by a man I was chatting to in Le Petit Socco in Tangier when we first visited Morrocco in 1992 (we've been back since), the lapis ring was a gift from my Dad for passing my 11-Plus exam in 1977 (bought back from Lebanon, where he often travelled to on business) and the Kuchi cuff was a Vinted buy which one of my friends spotted and sent me the link (£1!!!!!) Almost everything I wear has a story behind it.

 

Yesterday I spent the day over at Liz's, helping her set up a Vinted account. We ended up listing 16 items, with some things attracting watchers within minutes (I love it when that happens). I wore a maxi skirt I'd made from some vintage Anokhi fabric and liberated this J Crew western shirt from the stockroom - I was shocked when I discovered how expensive their clothes are, when I see Made in China on a label, I assume it's cheap sh*t. 

This shirt was £1 and admittedly does feel lovely with its pearlised snap fasteners. 

I'd been on the lookout for a blouse to go with this All About Audrey skirt and was excited to see this vintage Greek beauty pop up on Vinted for £5.

Despite the weather people on the telly going on about the high temperatures we're supposed to be enjoying, the wind is really chilly although I did brave bare legs and Lottas to drop my Vinted sales parcels off in the lockers this morning.

I was very grateful for this shaggy sage green wool-blend cardi I spotted for £3 in the clearance chazza the other day, it's 1990s Monsoon and very cosy.  

I must dash, we're meeting friends in Spoons shortly & I need to change into something warmer! See you soon.