A trip to Chichester.
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hello internet welcome to royal clarence i'm luxuriating in cotton bedware today because yesterday i went shopping in chichester which is rather is quite posh and their charity shops are quite posh and they'd taken delivery of some dead stock end of season designer clothing which was all brand new and oh that's romeo i don't know what romeo's doing he's having a bit of a laugh i think by the window anyway i i've purchased wonderful beautiful um luxurious loungewear and pjs and i'm lying here on my four poster bed and i was thinking just there about how wonderful it is to upgrade one's life but upgrading actually starts with the small

things not the big things so i mean you could upgrade couldn't you buy by buying a new house but if you haven't sorted out the luxurious cutlery for example and crockery and artwork and scatter cushions etc you haven't really upgraded at all you're just in a building with your downgraded life do you see what i'm saying so the devil is in the detail when you upgrade um now my table is about to arrive in a few hours for the sewing room so i'm going sorry about feeling like kristen dior or chanel in paris and i'm really really excited so i'm going to have to go make some room for it because it's a very big table and i'm just over the moon to have uh found this well actually it's a colleague of mine jonathan he's found it for me and he's just

sorting out the rough bits and sanding it all down and what have you because it's reclaimed as well because i've vowed darlings i've vowed not to buy anything new if i can really help it um of course you have to buy some things new food you can't buy secondhand food well no i mean perhaps some people do but i don't and um underwear pants i always buy new pants in fact anything that's sort of close on down below i always buy that new but everything else pretty much you can buy second hand or gift aid and these um this lounge suit that i bought is and the pajamas are all gift aid items so this is what businesses do they donate to charity

shops so you could say in a way it's a bit of a cheat it's getting my way around not buying new clothes if i buy new clothes at a charity shop but they have been pre-owned by somebody so that's kind of where i'm going on all this um now i yesterday i went to chichester obviously and then i met my counterpart i met the other grandmother yes and this was quite uh it was quite a an interesting thing because you you have ideas about other grandmothers when you're a grandmother you'll or a grandfather you'll know this you'll you'll realize that you can be a little bit sort of jealous i suppose this is the real word now i arrived and and my daughter and the family were late because they were with the grandfather and by about half an hour and i got quite tetchy i thought well he's stealing he's stealing my my my valuable time with my

grandson um but i got over it but i it was interesting that those feelings were had risen in me and i and i felt like that and then i was going to meet the grandmother now the grandmother and the grandfather are divorced long long ago and they can't tolerate each other and i was just so pleased actually to uh to see that i'm not the only dysfunctional family on the planet i mean i don't like that word and i don't really use that word about myself i don't think my family is at all remotely dysfunctional um i think we're just people you know personalities and if you start referencing dysfunction um you know it becomes a problematic it becomes one of those words that um our life coach trey talks about uh that when you're told something over and

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