The shoe saga
Shoe shopping. Sometimes it’s blissfully easy. Walk into the shop, spot the perfect pair immediately, the fit’s great, on sale, boom. Done. And sometimes… well. Consider the whole day a writeoff. For me, shopping for shoes is a ‘take the day off’ adventure. I have very small feet. And small everything else, to be honest. […]
Oops, I made a boob
You know I was talking about becoming really aware of my own boobs? Turns out I’m one of those women who’s been stubbornly wearing the wrong bra size for years. One of my besties used to be a bra fitter. She’s relentlessly told me, ever since she started there, that I was in the wrong […]
Such a mug
When you drink a lot of coffee on a daily basis, this has the added side effect of considerable mug ownership. In my kitchen cupboard, the huddle of mugs is reaching the point of overflow. There are teeny espresso mugs with cute coffee jokes on them, a rainbow stack of small triangular mugs, wide and […]
I got my new shoes on
Ewa Szypula goes on holiday and discovers a whole new meaning to ‘ethical shopping’… On a recent holiday visiting friends in Catalonia, I noticed that my (male) friend was wearing an exceptionally beautiful pair of shoes. They looked like dancers’ shoes: sort of like espadrilles, very simply made, dirty-white canvas, shapely, and with a pair […]
Hot summer in the city (not London, Paris)
Ewa Szypula has run away from home – again – and can be found living in a rather lovely apartment in Paris. Only, she finds that the heatwaves on this side of the Channel are no joke… When I recently moved to Paris, there were two things people tried to warn me off from: an […]
