Dress Of The Day with Angela

  Shop Selling Scarves, Hats & Gloves I bought the hat, and the scarf, sold separately, from St Luke's. The series of shops raises money for hospices. Cost of the Hat and Matching Scarf The items both cost £1, so £2 for the pair. The Label - F and F I found the scarf first and quite liked the pale pastel rainbow. It  might match  raincoats or jackets in both pale pink and pale blue. It would also add jollity to black or white.  But I usually go for brighter colours. Besides, the tassels were a bit bedraggled. The scarf had no label. I hesitated. Where was it from? Then I saw the matching beanie hat. Hurray. A set!  What's more, the hat had a label. The heading of the top of the double layer label inside the hat said F & F. Who was that? A supermarket, I was sure. Which one? Not Sainsbury. I recently realised that the manufacturer or seller puts their company name and address at the end of the label. Way down, beyond the ten language instructions on how t...

Dry, fly-away hair. Selfie photo by Angela Lansbury. Sometimes I take off my hat for a photo and I have fly away hair. It looks untidy. Worse, messy. It might look tousled and sexy. But more often it does not look professional. It sometimes ruins an otherwise good photo. On Zoom, in close-up when I am sitting down, even worse. Other people also have this problem. For years I went to the World Travel Market and saw an acquaintance who turned up every year with attractive orange hair, but such a mop that she looked untidy. I always wondered what was the cause and cure. After several years, I discovered the transformation I could make on my own hair - which got drier and drier, pershaps from tint  - with conditioner. I then had the urge to improve her hair. When I could not persuade her to take action, I went to the bathroom with her, put some on my hands to smoothe onto my own hair, and offered to add some to her hair to show her the difference. Unfortunately, she liked to look like ...