I can’t decide whether I have been most foolish or hopelessly optimistic – nonetheless it does allow me to post a pic of me in my new dress. Haw haw.

I was out shopping with the girls the other day and I spot this dress hanging behind a door in a most unlikely shop in some shadowy alleyway. I fall in love with it. They don’t have my size. It was 3 sizes too big! I hassle the shopkeeper to call their stockist. No luck. So I bought it anyway. Thinking, I know how to use a sewing machine! There I am, way past my bedtime, third night in a row, fiddling with threads and elastics, trying to make the dress fit. And it’s still too big. Damn, no new dress for Chinese New Year. Ugh, I’m impossible sometimes.