That's been on my mind.
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That’s been on my mind.
I wax and wane about fashion and all the choices right now. I am so fickle and it is unlike me.

One minute I want to be dressed up, literally in the most feminine of get-ups and the next I want to be lazy and cosy in the sweats. My mind is fractured when it comes to what I want to wear in the morning. It’s to do with so much change in the last 18 months – I can only presume this. My once very ordered, if somewhat chaotic, life has completely changed and become stationary. While the UK is opening up slowly, inter-European travel is not easy and so we haven’t moved; once upon a time, I was on the move most weeks.
Life has taken on a slower pace for a host of reasons and I am not complaining. In some ways, it feels against my character but in others, it feels so right. The English countryside, a destination I was once so unfamiliar with, is now very much in front of my mind and I am enjoying it. Perhaps it does not have the spice of Italy or the glamour of France but there is no denying its soft beauty and enduring charm.

I have been discovering the Cotswolds as my daughter starts to make a home there. Apart from falling in love with the rolling hillsides, golden stone and nature’s soundtrack I have also realized I am ill-equipped when it comes to country life. A city slicker through and through – sma...