Profound (less) or perhaps..

It's my birthday and I feel as if I should make some profound statement - this is because I have a clear head. Last year I was finishing my dissertation and also unbeknownst to me I was living next door to a cannabis factory! I'll post about that another time. It has been filed under the 'good grief did that really happen to me' file. Especially as I could add 'criminal gang'/'witness protection' and go on admit it, you thought this blog was all clothes and frivolity.

Mind you yesterday I was all about the frivolity when I met up for lunch with the wonderful and truly lovely Ruth from Life the Universe and All that's in it It was great fun and shame we only had a couple of hours. Mind you we packed it in talk wise and a quick nip into Selfridges to sort out a broken bracelet.

Ruth trying not to cry at the poor service!

Myself and Ruth, now best friends with all the other assistants as we were bored of waiting for the one dealing with broken bracelet

Sadly, after rectifying said bracelet issue, Ruth had to grab a cab to hot foot it to the station for home. I meandered down Oxford St, I would have walked quickly but the slow pace is even slower as it is nearing Christmas. It was so painfully slow it was quicker to hop on the tube.

As I cycled home after public transport journey, I was met with a haunting sunset and fog on the ground. The trees in the picture are from Kew gardens they were moved a few miles down the road in case they got bombed during the war and have stayed since. Sometimes there are parrots in them that come from Richmond Park. It is bonkers living south west of central London. We have deer and all manner of forest creatures.

Anyway, the beauty of a late autumnal day and the beauty of blogosphere friendship was increased by a post I read by Sister Wolf. Sister Wolf has had such a difficult year that there are no words to convey the anguish. I can laugh about a random cannabis factory event and I could, if I wrote a post about it, make you laugh too.

When there is nothing funny about ones circumstances then all we can do is reach out. However little our gesture is, it is a profound mark of humanity that humans care about other's suffering. A blogger with a truly lovely name...Heidi aka honeypants... has reached out and made a necklace in support of Sister Wolf and it is being auctioned here

As fashionista's, as bloggers take a peek and if you like what you see, make a bid. Make my birthday count just this once as I would like it to be about others not the usual 'all about me'.