.....Mint Velvet.  I'll come clean straight up.  I have hovered in concessions and thought that, as a collection in the catalogues it has always looked gorgeous and beautifully styled and put together but when I've come to try on the individual pieces it hasn't quite worked for me.  Apart from their scarves - their scarves have always been

Without a shadow of a doubt, my staple for the last couple of seasons (winter through to summer actually) has been my coated skinny jeans.  And there is no chance of me being able to get through a season without a) hauling out all my old ones and b) perhaps (!) buying some new ones.  Now there is

And HALLEFRUITINGLUJAH there is a 25% discount code from Whistles.  Grazie to Grazia.  All exceptionally handy.  Now I know it seems that my list from there is as long as my arm (and I do have randomly long Mr Tickle arms...) but fortunately (or not....) there isn't a lot left there that I want.  Either online or instore.

In a brand new pair of ballet flats!  At last I have managed to replace my poor, lost in a drunken stupor, pair of faithful old ballet flats from Banana Republic, which, to be fair, owed me nothing.  They were truly on their last legs and had served me well for the last 4 years before deciding, on