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Umbrellas, umbrellas, in three colours, with rams pattern. Optical illusions? Outfit 429

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 Yes, I have several. I just bought a bundle of 3. One of them has a pattern of goats. Or rams. Photo by Angela Lansbury. The animals have antlers. For fighting. I conclude they are males. Maybe an umbrella best suited to the males in my family. That's handy. Umbrella Colours I was searching for a cheap pink umbrella to go with my pink clothes. I saw this bundle of three on eBay and bought it. Optical Illusion Of Shapes This umbrella appears to be convex, a bowl. (I used to muddle up concave and convex. Then I realized concave is like a cave or bowl. Convex is the other way around.) On eBay the colours of the umbrellas were described as blue, pink and lilac. The pictures certainly showed those colours. Bright jolly colours. You can imagine my disappointment and surprise when I received umbrellas which looked like murky orange, light grey and dirty dark grey. (The American spelling is gray.) I took a picture with my phone to send to the seller. Imagine my second surprise when my pho...

Dress of the Day 117 Love Lavender: Lavender and burgundy knit, with lavender scarf, burgundy pom-pom hat and bugundy boots

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  I wore the scarf underneath the pom-pom hat for warmth. The burgundy knitted hat picks out the burgundy colours in the stripes, and the burgundy boots.  The burgundy boots by SOCOFY brand, were ordered in last year's end of season sale from New Chic. They now have another sale. The lavender knitted and fringed scarf is from Marks & Spencer. Labelled lilac. They have big branches in the UK and Singapore. Never-ending Sales I remember that in the USA, instead of the twice a year sales we had in the UK, (January sales and end of summer sales), sales went on all year. Every shop had a permanent sale rail.  As drove out of left Rockville Maryland on a fFriday night, i saw a sign, Last Day Of Summer Sale tomorrow. When we returned on the Saturday, as we approached the shop, I sighed, "Their winter sale is over." My husband replied. "Don't worry, before we go back to England, there will be another sale." He was so right. As we turned the corner I saw the welc...