And so after living in Newcastle for a good number of years, surviving a divorce and being a single mum for a good number of those years, I relocated to Poole in Dorset to join the new man in my life. Dorset is a beautiful area of UK and quite affluent by comparison to Newcastle and some of its suburbs! So here I was in a beautiful part of UK but where was I going to shop!! Of course the Charity Shops (what Op shops are called in UK) - were plentiful and some great finds were

Culture shock - having lived most of my life in the Middle East - I now had to relocate back to my husband's home town in the North-East of England - how do I cope? After living most of my life in Bahrain I now had to relocate to UK, a country for which I held a passport for but little else - it seemed like I was moving to a foreign country! Everything I had ever been used to was to change and I was to find myself in a town I didn't know with no friends and the worst - not kn

How did Lady M start her love affair with clothes? Growing up on a small island called Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf from a young age posed many challenges for a fashion conscious girl. There were very few fashion shops just lots of tailors and thousands of beautiful fabrics to choose from in the wonderful #Souq. But as a teenager who is coming to terms with her new body shape and not knowing exactly what suits her - having items made by a tailor (most of whom were men) was a