Dress Of The Day with Angela

What does the news tell travellers? The weather. The Seasonal holidays. What you should wear outdoors and indoors. Weather Warnings What to wear tomorrow.  What to pack for your destination. Whether you might want to cancel your trip, or your trip might be diverted. Whether there are parades blocking roads. Or storms diverting flights. In winter, will you have cancelled meetings? No news is good news, goes the old saying. Because newspaper headlines and the ones which grab out attention are often about wars, individual deaths, murders, accidents robberies and scams.  Those Who Avoid Bad News I have one friend who has a sick, elderly husband.  Yet she is very active in the community. She goes to art exhibitions. But she says she doesn't read the news because it is depressing.  I, on the other hand, read the news because it is vital to me when I am travelling.  Diversions & Delays I always remember 9/11, when I and my husband were in Singapore. A friend in Sin...

  The white ghost item in my left hand is not a butterfly catcher nor a spider catcher but a trick or treat bag held out at a distance, for Covid-19.  Photo by Trevor Sharot. In the picture of me in the doorway you can see: St George of England cross on Wellington boots; black full length lace slip by Marks & Spencer; From Waitrose supermarket in the UK: Trick or treat, black bucket bag showing pumpkin, orange trick or treat bucket bag with black cat face design; gold horn head-dress, small red trident,  plastic skeleton hand (arm outside picture); synthetic orange pumpkin spectacles. You can make a ghost from an old net curtain on a string. Add two of your smallest black buttons for eyes. No buttons? Look inside all your shirts, blouses, jackets, coats. Use Tippex or other white paint on the buttons for a glint in the eye, or the edge of the eyeball. Angela in purple-edged Halloween hat. Spooky spiders' eyes and siders web back ground with the words Happy Halloween....

  CLOTHES Skirt. Top. Sandals. Josef Seibel. ACCESSORIES Tote bag. Witch's Hat, for child 3-4 years. I am older than that, but it was the only size they had, so I bought it. I planned to insert an a shape black extender at the back but never got around to it.  Adapting the Small Hat However, the hat, being small at the crown, was not secure. I pulled it down but it was shiny and kept springing up my hair. Then it kept falling off.  So I found a long ribbon and considered cutting it and added two ribbons. One on either side under the brim. I should have cut the ribbon to the right length, possible longer on one side to make the bow. Then sewn it on. I had a long ribbon and no time to cut it in two and sew on two pieces before my meeting. So I grabbed a pair of scissors, cut two tiny slits in the fabric of the brim either side of the central upright part of the hat. I threaded the ribbon through, up the left side, around the front of the brim and down the right side. You ca...