Celebration!

It's my final day of uni this semester! I have a 50% test tonight and then I am going to frolick through the fields. To celebrate my month of no pressure (well, no uni pressure at least) I'm gonna have myself a bang-up day tomorrow. It's going to look something like this...

 Magic Slays is the fifth book in the Kate Daniel series by Ilona Andrews. It's the sort of series that's so good you just splutter when trying to describe it. I guess it comes down to the fact these books are damn entertaining. Magic Slays comes out tomorrow! So I'm going to rush to the bookshop, pick this up and some

 

from La Belle Miette and then maybe the new Fleet Foxes album if I'm feeling like I smashed my exam and run home in order to spend the day reading, eating and playing Fleet Foxes on repeat before heading out to see Bringing Up Baby at the ACMI!

 

It's going to be positively spiffing! 

True story.

To find it, I suggest looking in the following places - Under A for Jane Austen (where it will be wedged in either Persuasion or Pride and Prejudice), perhaps C for Loretta Chase (if you manage to find the brooding, rakish Carsington brothers then you stand more of a chance), I also suggest heading to M for Melina Marchetta (Thomas Mackee, Jimmy Hailer, Will Trombel. Seriously. Why didn't boys like that go to my high school?) and then swing by R for J. K. Rowling (I met Neville Longbottom in real life and it's totally up there in my top 10 life moments).

But even if you were to visit all these places, you still might not find it because there is just TOO MUCH fictional love in the library and quite frankly there are just too many places to have mislaid that heart of mine.

Study day!

Nothing like a bit of bopping to music created by some awesome women to make a study session more enjoyable. Also, women who have reached great heights in their chosen field can only help inspire me to reach for top marks!

 

Ladies, I salute you!

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I saw this mighty slab of goodness and just KNEW it would be precisely the sort of cake one would serve at afternoon tea with the queen. Sure, it's not something that looks like it can be eaten daintily, and yes, it looks deliciously wicked, but one must have the best. Naturally.

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Also, can you imagine how awesome this would be to have on your side during a food-fight? I suppose that royal protocol would decree that in the event of a such a fight with her majesty, her majesty would get the best ammunition by default. But not this baby. This is alllll mine. The queen and her corgis just wouldn't stand a chance.

Afternoon tea time, peppermint?

Welcome to Afternoon tea with the Queen, where we encourage eating, reading, researching history and dressing well. This life motto was exemplified by one of our historical idols, Queen Elizabeth I, who managed to keep her throne, translate historical texts, subdue the Spanish and avoid marriage, all while rocking some pretty magnificent ruffles! To kick this blog off to a truly queeny start, I'd like to present my ideal outfit for meeting up with a Queen 21st-century antipodean (that's us here in the colonies) style. 

1. Dona Monroe Bird Dress via Steve Alan
2. Stella McCartney Twany Panama Hat
3. Bared's Robin - Tan shoe
4. Vintage Matsuda Sunglasses at Vintage Spectacle