End of July: What I Have Read, Watched, Eaten and Worn

God that’s not a very catchy title, is it? Also, is it perhaps a bit manic with the verbs, like some sort of past participle orgy? I was going to add in “listened to” as well but it ruined the flow. And so you will never now know what I had blaring through my Bowers & Wilkins headphones. (Soundtrack to Gladiator.)

Never mind the title: it’s merely a bit of light reading about relatively inconsequential things. I don’t think that I have ever once presented you with anything but light reading about relatively inconsequential things, come to think of it, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise. One day maybe I’ll break out something profound and tell you about my deepest fears and desires. (Extreme Potholing. A Three Night Spa Break, Alone.)

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Here we go then, the things I have read and watched, worn and eaten over the past week or so.

I Have Been Wearing…

The shorts-finding obsession continues because I am on a general mission to remove all tight-fitting garments from my wardrobe, especially if they feel boisterously tight around the undercarriage. No good can come of having a gusset seam dig so deep that you have a permanent furrow. I mean I know there’s already a permanent furrow (oh that’s a nice name for it, I might adopt that!) but it’s not one that in any way requires further ploughing. I’d rather the furrow was left well alone - ditto waistbands that dig, bras that restrict my breathing, any sock that disappears into a shoe whilst walking and any top that rises up annoyingly to sit just above the belly button.

Anyway, these shorts from Adidas are great - and recommended by multiple Instagram followers, so I had faith in them before they even arrived - because they are very lightweight and have flaps at the side so that there’s no restriction whatsoever to the length of a lunge you might want to perform. I do not currently lunge (knees!) but need to start and I am now fully reassured in the knowledge that I have these three-stripe shorts to hand. I am a UK10-12, wearing them in a medium.

I have to say that they could never, ever look smart. They have a sheen to them that makes them decidedly unkempt. They are the sort of shorts my Mum would have raised an eyebrow at (and possibly still will, when I see her and start doing lunges around her garden) and they very much “bring down the tone” even if you pair them with a shirt or a good quality jumper or what have you. You know, like they do on the websites these days, with their ridiculous styling of things that could and would never happen in real life.

I bought mine at ASOS here - they do lots of different colours, barely any are in stock. There must be a lot of lungers out there.

I Have Been Reading…