Guest Blog: A day at the races

As my memory of Saturday's Young Member's Day is fairly fuzzy to say the least (something to do with going to the gym before the races...ooops), Caitlyn has happily provided a guest post for the event. I'll add some photos as soon as I work out how to get them off my camera.

Hello, Caitlyn here.

So I'm going to give a shot at blogging, using Heather's blog of course. We are at the races drinking wine while the boys try to make some money. I tried to put a bet on the first race and my horse came last so I've given up for today. I'm much better at drinking wine than betting, wino for life I say.

An update on the fashion here at Flemington. I wouldn't say it was great and I wouldn't come here for any inspiration. A lot of short frilly dresses and a lot of pink, both of which I am not a fan of, but each to their own I guess. Lets turn our eyes to the men, I have found a lot of what my Greek girls would call "wog tappers". If you've never heard the term before they are the bad shoes boys use to wear out to the trashy clubs when they just turned 18. They are usually white and of the pointed variety - GROSS! Speaking of white, white stockings are not ok. I've given it a go, it wasn't successful, so I wouldn't advise it for anyone else.

Enough of me... Everyone have a lovely day! Signing out, Miss Maney.

WWLFD?

On Friday night I was faced with a terrible dilemma, due to rather ungracefully descending the stairs at my local, The Local, I was left with a slightly damaged shoe. By slightly damaged, I mean the stiletto heel had snapped off at a right angle (see picture).

After a moments panic (I was two blocks from home and it was raining and if I took my shoes off my stockings would get wet...and I would be a bogan), I took a deep breath and thought 'What would Lillian Frank do?' Thankfully it only took a moment to bring to mind one of Lillian's gems of wisdom which is repeated at the beginning of each Spring Carnival - 'It is better to be carried home, than to carry your shoes home'...unfortunately, after looking around I noticed a distinct lack of gentlemen offering to carry me home. Back to the WWLFD drawing board....

The only thing left to do was take a deep breath, stand up straight, stick my nose in the air and walk along on the broken heel pretending there was nothing wrong. It turns out pilates has made me quite good at walking on tippy-toes, I think Lillian would have been proud.

I have nothing to wear!

Apparently most women only wear 20% of whats in their wardrobe regularly. In my case it's probably more like 10%. Despite the fact that I have a rather large walk in wardrobe literally bursting with clothes (I could probably go more than six months without washing if I wore everything), I still can't find anything to wear in the morning. I no longer remove tags from clothes when I buy them because I frequently find things in my wardrobe I haven't seen in years that have never been worn, and they sell better on eBay with the tags still attached!

My project for this month is to make peace with my wardrobe. This month I won't buy any new clothes, shoes or accessories (so I have more money to spend shark diving in Port Lincoln). I will go through my wardrobe and clear out the things I will never wear. Even the things that I 'haven't worn yet, but I just love so I have to keep'...they should be the first to go!

Anything that I keep will have to be matched to other accessories I already own - I'm not keeping anything that requires new shoes/tops/hats to be bought to wear with it. I think that's one of the reason a lot of clothes don't get worn, because they don't 'stand alone'.

I started yesterday by wearing a pair of shoes I'd bought and never worn....bad idea - new shoes always hurt, and a silky top...that was slightly more successful. This weekend I'm going to sort through and work out what to keep and what to throw...wish me luck!