In case it wasn’t clear on Instagram, it was very cold while we were in New York and Boston last month. I was surprised to notice when I scrolled back through the photos just how many times I mentioned the weather. Being British, talking about temperature and the general conditions of the outdoors on the […]
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New Year’s Eve in Big Sur

The central Californian coastline is a place I’ve wanted to visit since we moved, so in December we finally got around to it, spending New Year’s Eve weekend in Big Sur. The objective was simple; eat, hike, read and relax. Staying in Big Sur proper can be rather expensive and as it was the middle of winter, […]
Outside Lands 2015

This year was the first summer I didn’t get to go to Glastonbury Festival for the first time in about eight years. I avoided the coverage like the plague and winced when I heard about amazing performances or saw photos of my friends working at Worthy FM, the festival’s onsite radio station. I know, I know, […]
South Beach-Inspired Dressing

Confession: I didn’t take a single outfit photo on our recent jaunt to Miami. Bad, bad blogger. I had all these grand ideas about what and where to shoot but in the end that all went out the window in favour of sitting on the beach, reading books and eating an awful lot of ice cream. It […]
Six Months

The passing of the bank holiday weekend (it was Memorial Day for us over here) marks six months since Mr Ship-Shape and I moved to the States. Six months! I know that I’ll no doubt be spouting the same clichéd comments when our one year anniversary rolls around in November, but I really can’t believe how quickly […]