My holiday essentials

Part one.  Well of course it's part one as the list is enormous. 

And truth be told, we've already had part one as it was really the denim/chambray shirt. 

And and and and whilst we're here, if you're holidaying in the UK, I've come to the conclusion that you're onto a bit of a non starter.  It pretty much doesn't matter what you bring, it won't be enough of the right thing.  Holidaying in Ireland as we do every year is a shed load easier - you just bring warm stuff and lots of it (well as much as you can stuff in a Ryanair style suitcase - both yours and the space you steal from your kids')

But oh my lord, it is warm here in Suffolk.  Dare I say (THE SHAME) sunburn (I'm going with a redder shade of tan....) warm?

If it stays this warm - and yes, I am all for hoping that it does - the slight downside will be that I will run out of clothes by errr, tomorrow.  Ok so that's not exactly true - I have a number of little vests I can wear with shorts.  It's "shoulders out" weather for sure.

So in fact what I really mean is that I will probably have enough to wear to get me through to the end of the week (without having to wash anything) but it does mean that I won't get to wear 75% of what I've bought. 

In other words, the things that I usually get to wear on hols in the UK - jeans and the obligatory sweatshirts and jumpers aren't expected to see the light during the day. 

But... but but but.... as a typical half Irish, half English gal, copious amounts of sun doesn't necessarily agree with me.  This combined with an exceptionally old English stone cottage that we've rented, with walls a metre thick, I get a tad cold at night.  

And so - yee ha - I need something to snuggle in.  And more importantly, something to wear to the pub.  Now I have packed a plethora of (rather lovely I will say) sweatshirts, but the one thing I really wish I HAD packed as it would be perfect for this glorious sunshine which does turn slightly chilly of an evening, is my white jumper. 

I searched high and low for mine earlier in the season and it was a real find.  From Kin by John Lewis and now sold out but I have finally found a reason to trawl the dregs of the sales and unearth some total gems that are perfect for pretty much every holiday.  As well as being the ideal jumper to take you into Autumn - something light which you can team with darker colours (you can put with every colour or neutral to be fair) and still maintain a hint of warmer times.

There are some complete crackers around.

Selected Femme Waffle Knit in jet stream (cream to you and me) was £45 now £13.50  They also do this in an amazing orange shade - obviously called Sky Captain..... the mind boggles.  But it is a completely gorgeous colour - on link above.