Blankets and cake

Hurrah! Friday is here! The sun is shining and we are basking in the thrill of Hugh and Sioned’s award. For those of you who missed yesterday’s post, here is the link to the full article in The Age. What they have written about Floating really is lovely, so if you have a mo, do check it out.

I know Cate Blanchett’s award caused Simon to be befuddled by the question ‘what on earth is a blanket dress?’, so I have taken it upon myself to investigate and shed a little light on the subject... Cate wore a rather jazzy dress to a snazzy red carpet event a little while ago. I’m not quite sure how to describe it in order to do the dress justice, but I will try my best:

It really is quite unique...Imagine a crocheted blanket with different coloured squares. Now imagine more colours. And more squares. Use the power of your imagination to transform this blanket into a long sleeved dress. Now cut off one of the sleeves. Add a giant black pom-pom to the wrist of the remaining sleeve. Next add some faux fur (black) to the hem. And there you have it! It does look very snugly and warm, except for the fact that one shoulder will get rather nippy. However, paired with an extra sleeve and some UGG boots, I think this outfit would help me to keep warm in chilly and blustery Cambridge. Although I’ve done a bit of research on the designers who made Cate’s dress and I don’t think it’s in my budget. Never mind. Maybe I could achieve a similar effect by attacking my duvet with a pair of scissors and a sewing machine. ‘Bed-linen chic’ will be taking off very soon no doubt. Just remember, you heard it here first.

Other hot news from Hoipolloi HQ...There are still three more performances of Story of a Rabbit at the Curve in Leicester. Are you free tonight? Tomorrow afternoon? Or tomorrow night maybe? If so, why not grab a ticket to see Hugh. If you do already have plans, do a bit of re-shuffling and wangle your diary so that you can see Hugh after all. If you’re lucky he may even make you a cup of tea during the show. Click here to book tickets.

In fact I think that is all of the ‘exciting’ news to report. News fit only for the ‘mediocrity piles’ (there is both a literal and figurative pile; one for my dull scribblings on various scraps of paper/post it notes and one for my frequent inane thoughts) include the discovery of some rather delicious wheat free Dutch apple cake in the shop across the road. The inevitable consequence of this discovery is that I have been doing a sterling job devouring said cake. In fact I think it’s time to go and grab another slice...



Thank you to ejhogbin for the lovely photograph