Happy St Pats!

Green dress, £435, Marni; Green tights, £5, We Love Colours; Green/grey sandals, £375, Marni; Green Purse, £priceless, Chanel; Shamrock glasses, £1, Century Novelty.

I love novelty sunglasses, I think I own a pair for every festivity imaginable.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who let out a huge sigh of 'WTF' when I spied the 'store' versions of the Balenciaga S/S 08 collection. The collection was an international hit, and the linebacker shoulders and exaggerated hips were cited as yet another example of just how incredibl and forward thinking designer Nicholas Ghesquiere really is.

These watered-down (dumbed down?), boring frocks bear very little resemblence to the originals. In fact, many people on one fashion forum mistook them for a high street imitation. The fabric looks cheap, the shapes unflattering, and the print is just... bad. As for the two handkerchief style tops... I mean, really? WTF? They were bad in the 90s, and they're bad now. If I had £900 to drop on a frock right now, I'm afraid to see it wouldn't be these.

The Luella batman t-shirt has been everywhere this weekend. I've seen it in the weekend supplements of just about every newspaper, and on all sorts of websites. It's a great t-shirt, so OBVS this is a good thing. But £55 is a bit steep, so here's a few of my other favourites.

Luella Batman shirt, £55, net-a-porter; DIE Too Young To Die, £6, DIE; 3.1 Phillip Lim Oops Face, £95 (erm, what??), Browns ; Uniqlo Taiyo Matsumoto, £12.99, Uniqlo; Claw Yellow Burger, £30, Claw; Nails Did, £25, Nails Did

This week some classic bluegrass from the legendary Earl Scruggs (and a few of his friends). Earl is like the banjo God, and even invented a whole new style of playing, cannily named 'Scruggs Style'. This track, 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown', is one of the most famous bluegrass songs of all time. It was used in the car chase scenes in Bonnie and Clyde, and has since been used in plenty more hick-tastic chase scenes -- usually involving a car driving through a barn and emerging complete with chickens and hay.

Enjoy!

This week I'm working at a mining company, of all places. It's gold, gold, everywhere... but not a drop of gold jewellery to be seen. Not that kind of place, don't you know.

Anyway, all this talk of mining and elements brings me around to these periodic table rings. As you can see (if you paid attention in physics) there's gold, silver, and platinum. Clever, innit?

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