Careful Crossers

Top: Primark

Skirt: Swap (via Jasmine)

Sandals: Charity shop

Sunglasses: market in Toulouse

Growing up in a small town meant entertainment wasn't always what other kids were used to. When I was a teenager and still in school, most of my friday nights and my summer days were spent at the lakes. Our school backed onto the lakes which had two bodies of water and lots of green fields, hills and woods. It was the perfect place to spend endless hours, killing time until we could get out of our claustrophobic town. In the summer we would go out on the lake in boats and play in the playground that we were much too big for. We shot a short film for school there and staged a death scene by pushing a girl down the hill while filming from a tree. I held hands there with my first real boyfriend and I got drunk there when we weren't old enough to go to the pub. It has so many ridiculous memories there that it's one of my favourite places, which are far and few between in my home town.

A few weeks ago, I took my friends from university there to take a boat out and soak up the nostalgia on a sunny day. It was the perfect excuse to wear this skirt (that I have due to a swap I'm doing with the wonderful Jasmine of Transient Withdrawal) along with those perfect charity shop sandals I mentioned. I was going to buy a pair from Clarks which were out of my price range so I held off and then I stumbled across these, identical and never been worn for the massive price of 99p!

Sometimes, I'm just lucky like that!

P.S. Yes, we are singing I'm on a boat in that last photo.