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7 Years Young, my Tweed (Run) Anniversary

This morning I realised that my blog has turned 7 years old (well, on the 8th May). HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY TO ME! I have also had just under 5 million page impressions during that time (or at least since Blogger started recording them), so quite the milestone, I’m sure you all agree. The traditional gift for…

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The (no) Tweed Run 2014

I might as well give up taking my camera to the Tweed Run as I barely took it out of my bag this year, being far too busy enjoying myself (just as I should be). Not that it matters because you are absolutely guaranteed to snapped dozens of times as we all make our way…

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We (Tweed) Run the world

Those of you who have been reading this blog for a while will know that the Tweed Run is one of the highlights of my year. I have only missed one since I first started going (back in April 2010) and that was last year’s, due to me running a half marathon the same day…

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Pashley Pile-Up

Last Saturday, four of the Vintage Mafia girls and I had the absolute honour to be invited along as VIP guests at a very special edition of the Tweed Run. Regular readers will know that I’ve been on the two previous ones, in April ’10 and April ’11, and had an unbelievably awesome time on…

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Velocipede adventures

Here’s a little snippet of autumn fashion inspiration for you… I generally refuse to put my summer frocks away until the first frosts have appeared, but yesterday’s atrocious weather forcast and the day’s activities called for something a little more practical. Most unlike me! Yesterday was the Mayor of London’s Skyride – 55,000 people on bicycles,…

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Perm praises

I am singing them! I had my hair permed in March last year. So it’s well and truly grown out from the top, but the ends remain resolutely wavy. And, while it’s made my tresses almost criminally dry, that’s paradoxically turned out to be a good thing, because I now go for marginally more regular…

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Weekend of Tweed & Picnics

Sorry for the long silence again chaps and chapettes! It’s been a busy old fortnight of work, events and of looking after some lovely French journalists who spent four days following me around recording my life for a future edition of Le Figaro Magazine. It’s all been rather exciting, and I can’t wait to tell…

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The Vintage Cycling Bug

Happy Monday to one and all! Did you have good weekends? I didn’t get up to a huge amount myself – mostly due to a Friday night out with gorgeous ladies that began with drinking wine at the Royal Academy and culminated in an impromptu East-End pop party (during which we danced wildly to Beyonce,…

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Vintage Cycle Chic!

I’m on the cover of the current issue of London Cyclist magazine with a fellow Chap-scene regular (and in fact fellow reformed Guildford heavy metaller) Jon Fowler. Admittedly, we probably aren’t typical of your usual London cyclist, but the photo was taken during April’s Tweed Run, and of course, we wholeheartedly believe that those on…

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The need for Tweed

As mentioned in my last post, Saturday was a rather exciting day for me, because it meant packing myself and my brand-new old bicycle up to London to take part in the second annual Tweed Run. As I also said earlier, I was going along as The Chap’s Vintage Socialite, to participate, review and enjoy…