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| The legendary Emma K and a young fan |
Today I am honoured to be writing a post about my own personal style. I was tagged by the divine Rich Asshole who has awarded the Cocktails at Naptime Blog a Stylish Blogger Award.
It may well have been the sight of our wonderful book inside the covers of style bible Cosmopolitan Pregnancy (Summer issue out now in Australia) that prompted her to bestow us with the award. But whatever prompted her to tag us I am more than welcome to air my dirty laundry and then carry out her instructions which are:
1) Thanks and linkage back to my pal. No problem. 2) Share 7 things about myself. 3) Award 15 recently discovered bloggers the Stylish Bloggers Award and 4) contact them and tell them that they, too, are Stylish.
Now Gillian may want to write her own fashion post and this post in no way reflects on her fashion choices but I have always had a bit of a checkered relationship with fashion. I have done a stint at the fashion police here in Baltimore but generally speaking I am a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde where fashion is concerned. I do scrub up fairly well but I mostly don't bother and go out without a scrap of makeup wearing sweatpants. My personal style is a mix of Bett Lynch and Catherine Deneuve. Classic tailoring with a shot of loudmouthed barmaid if you will.
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| Deneuve + Lynch = Emma K |
How fashion forward am I you may well ask? Well if a truly fashion person like Anna Wintour is a Ferrari, I am more like a clumsy clown riding one of those miniature tricycles at the circus. What I mean is, I don't follow fashion. I don't understand 'current trends' or why you should wear harem pants or bunny ears to name but two daft trends.
But for now, pay close attention to the following 7 Fancy Facts:
- Until I was nine we lived in a flat with no indoor toilet or bathroom (there was a toilet in the outside hall but no bathroom anywhere). Let's just say I used to bathe at friends' places an awful lot.
- Our TV broke for about four years and mum didn't get a new one. It was quite nice in a way because I read about a million books but the downside was this was in the midst of Dallas fever and I felt a bit left out when I had no idea what they were on about when everyone at school kept talking about "Who Shot JR?"
- When I was a kid my mum used to give German lessons at our home but she could never get rid of the pupils at the end of the hour so I used to have to dress up as a grownup, go outside and ring the bell and pretend to be the next pupil.
- I have an addiction to Branston Pickle.
- I had a phase when I fancied Simon Cowell and I still can't fully explain why.
- I would not enjoy a meal of "liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti" - I am the antithesis of a picky eater and will eat anything, with the exception of innards i.e. lungs, kidneys, liver, heart etc.
- I am a hamster killer - One winter when I was about ten, I noticed that my Syrian hamster had turned stiff and cold in his cage. Figuring, he was dead I threw him in the trash. A friend later told me that he was probably hibernating as the Syrians often do that. Yeah, I know I will burn in hell for that.
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Harem pants? I imagine they're different things if the harem is yours or if you're just a eunuch working in the harem.
ReplyDeleteOh no that poor hamster!! At least if he was hibernating he would have felt nothing. And he never lived to see the harem pant come into fashion - not entirely a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the award, you stylish thing you!
Steve...never mind harem pants we're still waiting for the promised sexy pics of you in meggings - is the problem it is a bit too chilly in Leamington at the moment to don such scanty fashion forward items?
ReplyDeleteAlas the hairs on my legs reacted furiously against the lycra meggings and the resultant electrostatic storm singed my moose knuckle so badly a family of rednecks turned up for the barbeque... taking a photograph was the last thing on my mind; I was hiding my copy of Brokeback Mountain.
ReplyDeleteGo on, give the bunny ears a try. It'd make for a great blog post if nothing else...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the award! Much appreciated :)
LOL at the hamster situation. Sorry, but I did. No offense to the poor, departed hamster.
ReplyDeleteThank you for my Stylish Award. The Fibro has erupted with cheers of joy. Has been a long time since anyone used the word Stylish in any description of me. If you're on the tricycle, I'm the one squeezing into the phone box with 15 other desperately unfashionable clowns.
Waking up this morning to the Stylish Award - a bright spot on a dismal week in Australia. Thank-you!
ReplyDeleteI too was a hamster killer in my youth.
ReplyDeleteBut mine was called Snow White and she was a right bitch and used to bite me.
So good riddance.
Oh. Sorry. What I meant to say was that I am still troubled by her untimely death which will haunt me forever *cough*
LCM x
Thanks so much for my stylish award, but fuck me you stole half the blogs I would pass the stylish blog award to - bitch!!
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In case you didn't ever find out.....it was Kristen who shot JR.
ReplyDeleteHamster killing - yup been there, maybe even twice.... eek.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you missed Dallas, I feel for you.
Oh that was a laugh that was. I can't even imagine what 'dressing as a grown up' meant, but I'm sure it involved harem pants on some level.
ReplyDeleteThank you for thinking me stylish enough for this award. Really, they're giving them out to just about anyone these days, huh!?!?
If it's any consolation, we were not allowed to watch Dallas. At least you had a viable excuse to put out there in the playground... x
Harem pants? Seriously? Thank fuck that one passed Finland by!
ReplyDeleteMy Papa once squished the family budgie with his foot. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteOh and I have two pairs of harem pants- I love em!
ReplyDeleteMisssy M....Well I think some people can carry them off - maybe you have a small derriere! I don't!
ReplyDeleteOh I'm living that no-tv dream right now. It just sort of.... stopped. but we didn't watch it much anyway! Am also a Branston Pickle lover mmmmm
ReplyDeleteVeggie Mama...yeah we don't have any cable TV now either. American TV is a nightmare with commercials every two minutes. I just watch programmes now and again on Hulu.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up today. I had another laugh at your 'Emma K and a young fan' photo. Love your humour, Emma. x
ReplyDeletewe didn't have an indoor loo until I was about 11 I think. I remember the excitement when the Council came and fitted us out with one.
ReplyDeleteWe had an indoor bath already though, because I'm not a pikey.
er - damn - er - not that I'm saying that's what you.... oh bugger!
Congratulations on the well deserved award.
p.s. where I come from pikey = 'person with extremely fashionable and trendy they shy away from the mundane trappings of regular society and set new ideologies instead - including outdoor bathing'
Any other definition you may use is entirely due to your own unacceptable ignorance - not mine.
phew - think I got out of that one nicely...
Glen...no offence taken re pikey. I have always been a pretentious so and so even when I was living in a one bed flat in london sans washing facilities as a wee one. I think my mum paid six pounds a week for it maybe that's why it was without indoor lav/bathroom - we were on the council waiting list nine years then moved into the flat with the bathroom.
ReplyDeleteHi Emma, just letting you know that I've passed on my crown x
ReplyDeletehttp://www.stylingyou.com.au/blog/2011/01/seven-not-so-stylish-things-you-need-to-know-about-me/
And this is why I don't have hamsters.
ReplyDeleteEditing to add that my captcha was "Barf" - which coincidentally is what I did when I saw the bunny ears on Madge.