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I am so happy we are talking in the magazine this week about Feng Shui.
An interior designer friend of mine back in the 90’s introduced me to this Chinese concept of establishing harmony between ourselves and our environment by harnessing the positive flow of energy within and outside of our homes. I promise you her teachings have stayed with me ever since and you have no idea how many hotel rooms and holiday lets I’ve rearranged the furniture after understanding the concept and how it improves your state of mind. Once you’ve taken the rudiments of feng Shui on board and practised, it becomes instinctive and logical. As someone who beats the same drum, thank you MW for making it easy to understand and inspiring especially in one of my favourite months for having a good old sort out.
This end I’m on the final push with my Mum and Dad’s home and the light is now definitely beaming at the end of what has been a very long tunnel of ‘Stuff’ accumulated over a lifetime. Many of you I know have trodden this path and the messages on my Instagram have been both hilarious and heart-breaking. Dad now very much looking forward to his move South and sees it at 90 as a grand adventure and I can already see my ‘eradicate to radiate’ theory working on him – lighten the load!
One of my favourite stylists and probably yours, is Mark Hayes who shines on LK Today he is the one who understands what women want. I caught up with him back in May at The Chelsea Flower Show, I’d recently returned from a charity event at Buckingham palace and worn with my dress a pair of suede cowboy boots, promise you not the sort that looked like I was riding into town with a 10-gallon hat, no they were fine and dainty but nevertheless cowboy boots. So there amongst the foliage of Chelsea ensued between Mark and me his fashion predictions. And they were guess what? Dresses and boots -Yippee. So, you can now, after reading our fashion page, go rummaging around in your wardrobe working out which summer dresses can be appropriated with a pair of boots to work further into the season. If you are going to do the Nashville look, the most attractive boot will be a higher one finishing just under the knee, not too wide, a rounded toe and a 4-centimetre heel. This means you can move around quickly but with a little lift. Do I sound like I’ve put a lot of effort into this? Yes, I have. So lovely to see Tess Daly on our front cover, all is well with the world when ‘Strictly’ returns to our screens and well-done Angela Rippon for breaking through and showing us age is no barrier. I know she’ll be graceful and wonderful contestant.