A few quotes and other bits and bobs

"Whatever makes people happy they should just do it,cos time is a mere scratch and life is nothing"
Morrissey(b. 1959)
I've only switched my laptop on once this week.  I'm dying to catch up with all my favourite blogs but my concentration is lacking and I like to read and comment on things properly.  I've completely neglected blogging and trying to think of something short to post was hard

I finally give up smoking after thirty years

Tallulah Bankhead
I've smoked since I was twelve.  Obviously I didn't smoke that much back then but smoking has been a big part of my life.  I've never tried to give up before and amazingly I'm finding it much less difficult than I thought I would.
I went to the dentist on Friday afternoon.  I have receded gums on my bottom teeth and need some work done.  The dentist told me he would sort them

Friday quotes - Tallulah Bankhead

"Nobody can be exactly like me.Sometimes even I have trouble doing it"
Tallulah Bankhead(1902-1968)
I read Tallulah Bankhead's autobiography when I was ten.  I loved her dry sense of humour and strong character.  She was a very talented actress, personality, bon vivant and later talk show host.
Tallulah famously lived at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, in Hollywood and London.  Her parties

Fabulous headdresses

Anita Ekberg

Carole Lombard

Carmen Miranda - my friend has a brilliant framed photo of her kicking her leg up, she clearly didn't bother wearing knickers

Marlene Dietrich - I adore her clothes

Louise Brooks hiding her classic bob
Josephine Baker
Doutzen Kroes in Victoria's Secret

Lily Cole in Christian Lacroix

Seventies Cher
Photography by Mark SeligerThe gorgeous Gisele

Cher

Greta

Show you my wardrobe - Part two

I keep mentioning Hollywood glamour and staying in bed so I thought it only fitting that the next section of 'Show you my wardrobe' should be vintage nightgowns.  
These were all bought from estate sales in Hollywood or New York.  A couple were from Ebay in America.  I bought them from a lovely dealer I made friends with, a retired French horn player with the Metropolitan opera called Richard