Today at lunchtime I took myself off, smiling and skipping, through David Jones to look at pretty, shiny and sparkly things.
And then I found myself in the Sportscraft section and almost fell over!
It was chockers full of Liberty! I couldn't believe it!
I could have gone beserk. But I didn't. Because I'd just spent a small fortune on a Rebel Republic Tie Fighter ... or something similar.
The above isn't Liberty but it could be its poor tropical cousin.
PS I just told 2/4 of my children I was sent to prison when I was seven because I stabbed my brother with a pencil. Furthermore, I was incarcerated for five years and was only allowed to eat mashed potato. (Things are now ominously quiet around here and there's lots of nervous side-glancing.)
You are hilarious Carmel. I do love reading your little bloggy.
ReplyDeleteI really like the Liberty frocks and shorts, not so much their poor tropical cousin I'm afraid.
I respect your views on the tropical cousin. I do like its neckline and the whole monstera vibe. I'm now worried about that parcel. So sorry you went to all that effort. I would have thought it would have been returned to you by now ... is one of my elderly neighbours found themselves with a haul of kitsch?
DeleteNothing too kitschy inside actually, but don't worry, you've got honest neighbours (no need for any of them to go to prison and live on a diet of mashed potatoes for the term of their natural lives. Ahem!) I picked it up from Aus Post today, and have just sent you a note x
DeleteOh you could rock those shorts!
ReplyDeleteJail bird!
Hilarious!
Shorts are cute. As is the trilby.
DeleteIt's a wonderful power isn't it ... you can tell them anything!
ReplyDeleteOh yeah. High fives mother in the know. I've got Santa's telephone number too. And my parents were pirates. They met on the high seas and they have swords on the wall to prove it.
Delete1. I want the shorts.
ReplyDelete2. Only mashed potato? Man you are nice. I said just bread and water. No potato for me in my incarceration tales.
3. Take care and hope all well with you and yours.
All's well here Lady Farmer. You can buy online and Sportscraft is having a sale. Hope your Christmas is overly festive.
Delete4. Thanks for the tip. The above shorts are now winging their way to a post office near me. My Visa Card has broken the shopping ban I put on it. Off to mash some potato and lock it away in a drawer.
DeleteI'm going to tell my kids that I know someone who stabbed their brother with a pencil and went to jail and ate mashed potato. That's probably good enough to scare the folks around these parts. So, I'm glad I know you.
ReplyDeleteHello you, yes, sometimes it's not what you know it's who you know.
DeleteI said it because one of my children actually stabbed another one of my children with a pencil. The Criminal Code has become bedtime reading around here.
Oh you are too funny! I like the poor cousin actually.
ReplyDeleteDebbish, imagine the Canadian heads turn it you swished down the street in some blue monstera. Brown bears beware!!
DeleteAaaaaaaarrrrr!! Pieces of 8 ! Pieces of 8.!
ReplyDeleteAnd that I have a talking parrot who bites kids who stab others with pencils.
Those shorts are the real wowsies.
You'd look hot in them.
OMG...I'll be laughing about the pencil-stabbing mashed potato-eating convicted-and-duly-incarcerated criminal for the rest of the night. I can't wait to use that on my grandsons when they get a little older.
ReplyDeleteYum! My sister got some Liberty shirts online from the US for a pittance and I hate her guts for it. Even on sale I couldnt afford them! But I know she's sick of them I'll offer to take the back to the op shop and rat through it like a home less person and score some good items. I havent had much success sewing shorts, so i'd probably splurge on them if I could.
ReplyDeleteI stabbed a girl in the leg with a pencil when I was primary school. I was brought up violent haha. she had a grey spot on her leg for the rest of the school life that I knew her. She's probably telling her kids about me and saying I ended up in jail! Or at least that I should be :)
OMG! Those sportscraft dresses are really nice - I like the poor cousins best! Hmmmm...me thinks I have to stop op-shopping and buy something new for a change. xx
ReplyDeleteSometimes I refer to our years at that place on the hill as my prison years. The kids when they were younger were absolutely terrified about getting sent to boarding school.
ReplyDeleteMy nose grows longer every holiday with all the control lying I am forced to dish out. Santa's mobile number is written high on the blackboard door and elves are hiding everywhere and watching you. Take that paranoia seed to your therapist and smoke it.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I once walked through a cark orchard alone in Asissi at midnight with a freshly sharpened HB Clutched in my fist. Nothing wrong with a bit of pencil weaponry- shows creativity!
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