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Vindication

So you may (or may not) have noticed that everything has been a little bit quiet over here on Average Josephine. This has been for a number of reasons but not least because some lovely, lovely...

Apr 28, 2012 Like

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Romeo and Juliet review 22 March 2012

Last night was the second of the Royal Ballet’s live broadcasts to 500 cinemas across the world, a performance of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet. The lead roles were being performed by...

Mar 23, 2012 Like

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Minimum wage

Every so often a company will hit the news because they have been using labour in India, China, Indonesia, the Philipines etc. and paying them a miniscule amount to create what we consider to be...

Mar 23, 2012 Like

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Dirty laundry

I am not a great fan of airing dirty laundry in public. Says she with the blog where she grumbles at length… OK, slight oxymoron aside, there are some things that I don’t think need to be or, in...

Mar 21, 2012 Like

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A broken clock

I think I broke my mother’s heart today. We’d gone out for a family lunch, me, my parents, brother, sister-in-law and my two nephews, Ben (2 ½) and Rupert (4 months). Rupert is normally the...

Mar 19, 2012 Like

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Baked delights: brownie mug cake

It’s Sunday which in my world means it’s baking day. Or cake day. Or sod the diet day. You may pick whichever appeals to you best. Or, if all three apply to you then all I will say is you’re a...

Mar 18, 2012 Like

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Laura Ashley: guilty pleasures

When I was little Laura Ashley was the height of decorating sophistication. I will point out that I grew up in the eighties when chintz was big. Then came Ikea and their minimalist “chuck out your...

Mar 17, 2012 Like

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I have just read something so horrifying that I almost couldn’t believe it. I thought that in modern society (I apologise for sounding like my mother) it was a commonly accepted fact that “no means...

Mar 14, 2012 Like

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Rockett St George: website wonders

I should be banned from the internet. No, really, there needs to be a block on my computer that stops me from going to any website that has a function where I can BUY anything. Anything at all. I...

Mar 13, 2012 Like

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Furniture faux pas

There are moments, like yesterday, when I think, “that’s not the best thing to put on Twitter”. And I fully admit we all have moments where we tweet things that maybe we shouldn’t, I am not immune...

Mar 7, 2012 Like

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Spot the “deliberate” mistake

When I saw this on Pinterest I knew that I had to write something about it. It is an error that I see on a regular basis and drives me up the wall. Spot the deliberate mistake Source:...

Mar 7, 2012 Like

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Too big for her boots?

When I saw a blogger posting an FYI for PRs on Twitter stating that she didn’t run news stories on launches etc so whilst press releases were fine but e-mails asking for coverage were not, I...

Mar 6, 2012 Like

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Mending broken hearts

As I wrote yesterday, I am a big Radley fan. Their classic bags are well made and elegant and will last a lifetime. What I didn’t realise until yesterday when researching my post was they had a...

Mar 2, 2012 Like

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Trial and error

Baking sometimes is a bit like dating. You flirt with new recipes and new cookbooks. You might even take them out on a couple of dates. But it takes a long time to find “The One”. When it comes to...

Mar 2, 2012 Like

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Bag Lady

Some people are shoe people. I know the way to my best friend’s heart is through a pair of Christian Louboutin’s for example. And whilst I love shoes, I find spending masses of money on them quite...

Mar 1, 2012 Like

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A message to live by…

Every now and again you see something that just appeals to you. In my case I saw this on Pinterest earlier and it has gone on my “things I would love to buy”. Kate Spade iPad cover. Source:...

Feb 28, 2012 Like

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Dear Angelina

A polite request to Angelina Jolie: We’ve never met. Nor are we likely to (thank God). But something has come to my attention which I feel I must share. You are 36 years old. In other words, old...

Feb 27, 2012 Like

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Naked

How do you feel when you look in the mirror? And that would be before you have a chance to put your make-up on. Are you happy with what you see? For a lot of women, the act of putting on make-up is...

Feb 27, 2012 Like

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A sick sense of humour

There is a phenomenon on Twitter at the moment which I really don’t understand. It has affected all sorts of people and whilst some of them I understand to a degree, it is generally a pretty sick...

Feb 26, 2012 Like

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The land that style forgot

Vivienne Westwood has done it again. She has proclaimed that Britain is the worst dressed nation on earth and actually I’m not entirely sure I would disagree with her. Certainly if you look at the...

Feb 24, 2012 Like

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Taking a battering

What many people don’t know about me is that my blog isn’t the first thing I’ve tried writing. When I was younger I was a voracious writer. By the age of fifteen I’d written two stories which were...

Feb 22, 2012 Like

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A rose by any other name

Every now and again, life gives you a really nice surprise. For me, life managed this feat on Friday when I was feeling pretty low so news that I’d won something was just what I needed to pick my...

Feb 21, 2012 Like

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Book worm

I have no shame in admitting that I am a devoted bookworm and have been ever since I learnt to read. When other children were reading a book a week, I was racing through one a night. We have a...

Feb 21, 2012 Like

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Forgiven and forgotten?

When Sam Baker, the editor of Red Magazine, retweeted a Huffington Post article on Friday, I could have thrown something. Considering I was holding my phone and a cup of tea, neither would have...

Feb 19, 2012 Like

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Brighten up

As I might have mentioned once or twice, I suffer from severe insomnia. It has lots of rubbish side effects but one of the most frustrating is the fact that your skin gets ridiculously dull. It’s...

Feb 16, 2012 Like

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A waste of good cake

Despite the fact that I can’t eat the majority of cakes now, I still collect cake recipes like a mad woman as I do still bake (half of my recipes board on Pinterest is cake related). Other people...

Feb 15, 2012 Like

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Papered over

As I have mentioned before, I am moving back to my lovely little two bedroom flat after an extended stay with my parents (three years… rather too extended). And as I have been away for so long, and...

Feb 13, 2012 Like

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Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls…

Andrej Pejic walking for Jean Paul Gaultier If, like me, you were a teenager in the 90s it is highly unlikely that you won’t recognise these lyrics as they come from one of Blur’s early hits, Girls...

Feb 10, 2012 Like

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Heaven in a tin

When I saw Bangs and a Bun tweeting about how boring eating right for her Berlin half-marathon training can be and how she wanted toast cereal and cake, my way forward was clear. Whilst it might...

Feb 8, 2012 Like

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Covered up

I confess. I regularly consult the Daily Mail as my source of gossip. I take anything that is actually written with a small mountain of salt as the paper seems to go with the “why let a small thing...

Feb 7, 2012 Like

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My likes, dislikes, loves, hates... This is my life

Vindication

Romeo and Juliet review 22 March 2012

Minimum wage

Dirty laundry

A broken clock

Baked delights: brownie mug cake

Laura Ashley: guilty pleasures

No means no

Rockett St George: website wonders

Furniture faux pas

Spot the “deliberate” mistake

Too big for her boots?

Mending broken hearts

Trial and error

Bag Lady

A message to live by…

Dear Angelina

Naked

A sick sense of humour

The land that style forgot

Taking a battering

A rose by any other name

Book worm

Forgiven and forgotten?

Brighten up

A waste of good cake

Papered over

Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls…

Heaven in a tin

Covered up

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