Tell me that you want to dance. I want to feel your pulse on mine.

Dress: Gap via eBay. Shoes: Irregular Choice. Brooch: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

I now weigh exactly what I did ten years ago. While I was at a healthy weight anyway, I did sort of secretly want to get to this point because to me the additional weight represented a series of events and experiences over the years that caused me to comfort eat. I could literally tell you that I added the first 7lb for this reason, the next for that etc over the years.

So while I was healthy anyway and wasn’t trying to lose weight but rather improve my overall fitness, I do now feel like my body is back to where it should be, to where it naturally goes when my mind is healthy. Because I’m doing what I do when I’m healthy.

Baggage: gone.

And that’s a bloody good place to be.

The grass is several shades of blue

 Cardi: Gap. Top: Dorothy Perkins. Jeans: TopShop. Shoes: Dune. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

I seem to be embracing the yellow lately, don’t I? Must be the signs of impending summer

Over the weekend, I was rummaging around some old photos (On the hunt for formal pictures and pictures of my teenage years, both of which are rather light on the ground, between lack of occasion and detestation of having my picture taken. And viewing the resulting images.) and stumbled across this one:

    This is me, a bit over ten years ago, on my 24th birthday. Celebrating in style (erm) in Pizza Hut with my then-new colleagues, including the person who that weekend became my other half. I’ve never really thought it’s a particularly great picture of me – and I actually prefer the way I look now – but it’s a fantastic picture of the moment.

Funny how you can see energy in a still image sometimes, isn’t it?

I love to hear you oralise

 Shrug: thrifted. Dress: Gap via eBay. Belt: thrifted. Shoes: Dorothy Perkins via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

Overheard in the office: “You’ve got legs!”. Translation: colleague for whom it’s not completely unheard of to wear a skirt but who has been wearing trousers more lately happened to be wearing a skirt. Steady, chaps!

Overheard in the office 2 “Your hair’s gone all fluffy today”. Heh. That’ll be me not being one for using product in my hair, then, I suppose!

I’ll spare you the rest…

I was asking strangers but no-one understood me

 Cardi: Gap. Dress: thrifted. Shoes: Next via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

Giving me everything inside and out.

 Cardi: New Look via eBay. Dress: Gap via eBay. Holdups: Wolford. Shoes: Irregular Choice via eBay. Necklace: Tatty Devine

Red and green, black and white. Guess I was feeling contrasty today!

I’ve swallowed half an hourglass

 Cardi: thrifted. Dress: Gap via eBay. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk. Shoes: Hush Puppies. Holdups: Wolford

It’s been a strange week. One of connecting left, right and centre in one respect and feeling as if I have a perception filter on me in another respect.

But I’ve several friends who have made really positive decisions just lately, so life has a pleasingly happy glow about it, all things considered. Even if it does seem to be becoming a bit pigeonholed.

The hand of fate or devil’s claws?

 Cardi: Gap. Top: Miss Selfridge via eBay. Jeans: TopShop. Shoes: Jones via eBay. Necklace: Anna Lou of London

Yeah, today felt like a jeans sort of day.

In true catching-onto-trends-ages-after-they-begin style, a friend and I did some trying on of things we wouldn’t normally wear over the weekend, which means you might be seeing some paperbag waisted peg trousers (I know! But trying on a pair revealed they actually really suited me – they’re high waisted, which does tend to work for me.) and coloured capris on here at some point, when I find variants that I prefer to the proof-of-concept ones I tried on, and when weather permits.

I have two shopping styles for bricks and mortar shops. One is the super-speedy, on my own, in-and-out-quickly approach – I zip round time, try on only what I have to, and will be done within the hour. The other is the sort of day that’s more about hanging out with a really good friend than it is about shopping. It usually involves rather a lot of sushi, and we take our time and wander round looking at all sorts of things, usually without any particular agenda. I have one friend in particular who is awesome for encouraging me to try things I would never have thought to try before and providing honest and critical feedback. Y’need friends like that, especially when you’re feeling a bit in a rut. Thanks, Sarah, chuck!

The sun is shining. We should be making hay.

 Cardi: Gap. Dress: Fever via eBay. Shoes: Next via eBay. Belt: thrifted. Necklace: www.mockinghorse.co.uk

Currently feeling kind of grateful for the strangely wide and varied interest community that is Ravelry. It always amuses me when people file it as ‘that knitting forum’. I hardly ever actually talk knitting on there! Its structure of allowing you to create a forum for any interest means there are literally tens of thousands of interest groups on there, and those are where I spend my time. I talk feminism with folk of all nationalities, have general chat about the news of the day with other Brits, catch up with other gamers, and goodness knows what else besides.

There’s something that tickles me slightly about having more gaming and film/TV conversation with a bunch of mostly female knitters (not to mention the most-definitely-female Facebookers), half of whom I’ve never met and probably never will meet, than is ever likely with my mostly-geeky-guys colleagues. I spose it shouldn’t, really.