So Spring is actually here. IT'S HERE!!!

You don't have to completely overhaul your wardrobe for Spring (who am I kidding, if you're anything like me, of course you do) but it is easy to get a fresh look without spending huge amounts of bucks and you know I'm all about that. 

When GlassesShop.com offered to send me a pair of specs to test out, I was happy to have a go because who doesn't love cheap glasses. And ZZ Top's classic "Cheap Sunglasses". Oh YEAH [riff].



I popped online to check out the range available to me as part of their blogger program and selected the Seine Aviators - a statement pair that were quite bold and different to what I would usually wear because, well, free.

GlassesShop.com offers prescription eyeglasses as well as prescription sunglasses and regular sunnies. Obvs do your research first if you're thinking about moving away from your local optometrist but it may be a good way to save some coin on a back-up pair of specs or two. Or three. Or four.

My parcel duly arrived in a month, which is what I would normally expect for a product that was coming from China (and they did contact me prior to advise of a delay), complete with a sturdy plastic case and lens cleaning cloth. 

I was pleasantly surprised by the look and feel. They are sturdy and have a good weighty quality to them with nice clear lenses.





Unfortunately, as is so often the case, they turned out to be too big for me and my pin head. (Seriously, I own sunglasses from the children's section so this wasn't a surprise). 

Instead, I enlisted Restyle 2015 finalist and sunglasses collector Stacie to model them for me and I think you can agree, she did a fine job.




GlassesShop.com are currently running a campaign called First Pair of Glasses Free where, as the name suggests, new customers can get a pair of free glasses (actual optical prescription ones or sunnies) plus shipping and handling fee which might be of interest to you. 

Also, readers of Almost Posh can use the coupon code GSHOT50 to nab 50% off a pair of full-priced specs with free lenses thrown in (sale frames are excluded). Yay!

What's the best part of Spring for you?


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I was gifted this product for review by GlassesShop.com. All opinions are my own. For more information, please see my Disclosure Policy.

Any excuse for a Bowie reference, amiright?

So anyway, I like music. I can't play any instruments or anything fancy like that but I enjoy singing to it, dancing to it, bopping my head along to it. However, I don't have an enormous stash of vinyl/cassettes/CDs/mp3s. I'm more of a book hoarder, although even that has halted since the acquisition of a Kindle.

What I do have is a great variety of music; from 40s swing and big-band, rock and roll and beat music from the 50s and 60s, disco, rock and punk from the 70s, pop, new wave, dance, pub rock and hip hop from the 80s, Britpop, grunge, big beat and garage from the 90s and electro, house and Europop from the naughties onwards. Plus rando mash-ups, novelty songs, one hit wonders, alt/indie tracks and dance moves for each and every one of them.

Why am I telling you this? Well, a while ago, my friends Jackie and Judy asked me to DJ at a club night they were putting on here in Radelaide. Fully aware that I had never done so, which was very generous of them.




Um, let me just think about - OMG, YES PLEASE!

This has been on my bucket list for a very long time - doing an actual proper DJ set for a paying crowd, not just plugging my iPod in at parties or hogging the jukebox and forcing people to dance to Vanilla Ice. I was very excited about the opportunity and had a good few months to lie awake at night planning potential set lists.

My brief was highly danceable 80s pop so I spent some time combing my music collection for suitable choons with a bit of a new wave feel, plus some sneaky Britpop, and headed on down to the Producer's Bar.



I was given a brief overview of this intimidatingly scary looking machine. Look at all those lights, buttons, dials and sliders!



After dancing my nerves out to Judy and Jackie's first set, I was on!



To my great surprise, I picked it up pretty quickly and was able to be left unsupervised after the second song.



People danced! Hurray!

I didn't get a full length outfit shot, which is horrendously disappointing. I really do need to get past that insecurity of asking others to do so. However, in related news, I have ordered an iPhone tripod and Bluetooth camera shutter button from eBay so hopefully this will no longer be such an issue. At least the toilets made a decent backdrop.



I'm wearing one of my favourite ASOS purchases; a PU-coated laser-cut skater dress with a quilted bag from Equip. Not pictured, black tights and platform lace-up ankle boots.

My sister-in-law at Make-Up By Lorin did my face:



I didn't want to wash it off at the end of the night!


The set was over all too quickly. Here's what I played:

"I Will Follow" - U2
"Dreaming" - Blondie
"Just Keep Walking" - INXS
"The Reflex" - Duran Duran
"True Faith" - New Order
"Rockit" - Herbie Hancock
"Girl U Want" - Devo
"Transmission" - Joy Division
"Personal Jesus" - Depeche Mode
"Fashion" - David Bowie
"Love Plus One" - Haircut 100
"Hazy Shade of Winter" - The Bangles
"Drop Dead Gorgeous" - Republica
"Connection" - Elastica
"Every You, Every Me" - Placebo
"Buffalo Stance" - Neneh Cherry

Would you have danced to any of these? What would you play in your ideal DJ set?

So, a few years ago, if you had asked me what I thought someone with a life coach looked like, I’d have described someone very much like this:

"I'm chanting as we speak."

You know the sort.

Gullible, weak, easily led. Someone who hands over their money to any kind of lifestyle program, motivational speaker or spiritual leader. Someone who can’t get out of bed without having a lucky colour channelled for them or chanting affirmations about how worthy they are. Someone who needs their behaviours enabled and validated. Someone who has to "activate the goddess within".

As it happens, this is what someone with a coach looks like:

"It's TEMT, sweetie. TEMT."

I know, I was surprised myself when I realised it.

Over the course of my career, I've been lucky enough to work with some pretty top-level humans.

Brilliant, funny, smart, kind, compassionate – so many of my long-term mates are all people I’ve shared an office space with at one time or another. I’ve been at my current place of employment for nine years and the people I’ve worked with have been with me through some pretty awesome life events; engagement, wedding, milestone birthday, pregnancy, birth and return to work after maternity leave.

They’ve also been with me through the “need a nudge in the right direction/kick in the pants/reality check” times and the seriously rough proper counselling and doctor’s appointment times. I've been very lucky to have such a support network and work with what I call "weekend friends"; people who you want to spend time with out of work hours and who are there for you for coffee chats, lunch, cheeky early minutes, outfit photo shoots and endless messaging via the internal communication system.