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No champagne button, no deal.

Press it.

Every girl deserves her Flashdance moment

Currently channeling Melanie Griffith by day and Jennifer Beals by night.

I am not gay, I just like pearls

 

Someone told us that genuine Pearly Kings and Queens get free pie and mash for life. We think this is a cultural stereotype. They clearly prefer ice cream.

byov makes things happen

So we read The Alchemist (a bit) and had some issues with The Witch of Portobello (a lot), but when Mon Oncle is showing at the beautifully, crumbly, sun-damaged Cinema Rif  in Tangier, on the very day we roll up, parched and hungry – mere days after blogging about it – we think we believe in some kind of destiny…we’re not sure what kind…but still…

Yves Saint Laurent Blues

No Talitha Getty, no opium, no kaftans, no sex parties, and most certainly no Karl. But still the most beautiful fall in Marrakesh.

they will make it if they cannot find it…

You So Would

As birthday presents go, we’ll take an evening in with The Grinder any day. Anyone for a Dirty Martini?

Happy Anniversary ♥

due to relocation year 2 is all about the girl guide. more details soon.

love byov.

Sunday afternoon at chez guinea pig

Just chillin with Fat Cheeks.

Post biscuits are very exciting

i will enjoy my biscuits

“We drink because it’s what men do”

Ingredients for an Old Fashioned Whisky Cocktail

*    2oz Bourbon any bourbon will do. Jim Beam works well
*    1oz sugar syrup
*    A dash of Angostura bitters
*    Ice

1.    Fill an old fashioned glass (a basic tumbler) with ice.
2.    Add 2 oz of bourbon
3.    Add 1 oz of sugar syrup
4.    Stir for 30 seconds
5.    Add dash of Angostura bitters
6.    Stir for 30 seconds
7.    Serve

“I’m not leaving now. It’s just getting good.”

Foxy knocker

(+ peeling paint = a look)

The money shot

It doesn’t matter that we think one of the eggs might have been past its use by date…or that we used granulated sugar instead of caster…or that we made enough crumble topping to feed a small army…Just LOOK AT IT!!!

I don’t want to go. I like it here. I’m sad.

When byov HQ launches…

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…we’re going to display all our clothes in G-Plan glass-fronted cabinets. Yeah.

Baron Suits, 135 Commercial Street, Newport

Happy (belated) pagan winter solstice

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So anyway, back to me

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It’s not right, but it’s OK

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It’s not safe, but it’s cool

Paint job

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Slightly obsessing over flaking paint in manner of man standing on platform writing down train registration numbers, even when raining.

It’s all building up to a total conversion
to Paganism

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One step away from a velvet cloak and plant-worship.

The honey monster loved the wrestling…

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and his wig coat.

Cheese lava

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Yeah, so?

When I grow up, I want to be a Steampunk

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All I want to do is graduate from high school,
go to Europe, marry Christian Slater, and die.

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Happy Halloween

Have I overdone it with the rust?

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Rust. I need more RUST.

Paris, Je mange

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Sugar rushing in Paris.

Sex religion death

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And ink.

Moon-face gets into a fix…

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Goat Face were the unexpected find of Offset 2009

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