a swedish montage...

While everyone else seems to be tweeting about their near run-ins with Alexa at Glastonbury I've been living the simple life in Sweden. I struggled to fall asleep last night as relentless singing kept going on in my head. It was midsummer and the neighbors were loudly singing drinking songs until the wee hours of the morning... a tradition I definitely will be bringing back to the UK. We hit up a traditional pole raising event where everyone wore floral dresses, flowers in their hair, and danced around a massive cross - all the while singing songs jovially about frogs with no tails?! Slightly bizarre but entirely enchanting. Anyway, in all honesty my high-fashion run ins have been slightly curtailed as I haven't had much contact with the outside world these past few days... so instead I'm just bringing a little montage of the last few days which have been spent sailing, playing scrabble (where I felt pretty impressed with coming up with the world 'trilby' - I'm rubbish at words games), lying in the sun, eating copious amounts of cake, reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and wandering around deserted towns where every shop is closed thanks to midsummer festivities (Monki will have to wait until tomorrow)...

Wearing: Mouille swimsuit won in a giveaway from Miggy - which, by the way, I totally love and would highly recommend. It feels totally lush and is lovely to wear.

p.s. I'm currently contemplating a blog re-jig... so watch this space.

'everybody look at me 'cause i'm sailing on a boat...'

Spent the whole day sailing yesterday. It was pretty much perfection. Sweden is unbelievably beautiful, so quiet and peaceful. The perfect place for me to tuck into Grazia and a massive bag of sweets. But, this scenario of spending all day lounging in swimwear begs a question... how do we feel about posting photos in bikinis? I'm not a swimsuit model (duh) and I probably haven't ever felt 100% at ease having my photo taken while wearing a tw0-piece... but I'm not entirely averse to the idea. I gave it a shot yesterday... some came out alright but then I started wondering how I feel about posting photos of it. It reminded me of a conversation I had with another blogger who said, 'the less you wear the more traffic you get.' Obviously not in the context of, 'hey, let's strip down and boost our numbers' but rather that it wasn't really the sort of thing we were in to doing. So anyway, I know the clear answer is probably, 'Listen Jen, if you feel comfortable doing it and you want to then do, if not then don't.' It's simple right? But basically I'm not too sure at this moment... and I'm curious about what you guys think about this. So tell me, what are your thoughts on blog posts featuring swimwear?

p.s. if you follow me on twitter you may have heard that I was very excited this morning about going to Monki... sadly, it's bloody mid-Summer's eve so literally every shop is closed. Bummer... Monki will have to wait for another day.