The Darling Sisters

Blossom, the Captain and friends K and A take their tastebuds and travel Tasmania ...

Day One – travelling

Traditionally the second most difficult day of any trip, just after Coming Home and immediately before Laundry Day (often spent frantically searching for a launderette with machines that work, and feverishly assembling coins).

Charming Friends,

The Darlings are both very into subcultures. We actually qualify for a number ourselves: Mod, Goth and Geek among them. However we generally love them all and particularly enjoy working with them as Darlings. People who are attracted by a subcultural lifestyle are usually creative, questioning and humorous types and very nice to be around.

We occasionally become obsessed with a particular subculture, and like to play with them as much as possible. Let us tell you about one of our all-time favourites.

Charming Friends, Imagine that you are attending a conference in a different city, for which event you carefully packed as lightly as possible. Imagine that you planned mix-and-match wardrobe ensembles for travel, for attending lectures, for studying, for lounging in the hotel and perhaps for dinner with friends one evening? 

Charming Friends,

Later this year each of the Darlings will be taking a holiday - separate from each other (although we're always together in spirit) but with our dear husbands and other friends. Darla and the Admiral are heading for the distant cities of Las Vegas and San Francisco, and Blossom and the Captain are going to be a bit closer to home in lovely Tasmania.

Charming friends,

If you, like many others, enjoy some of the fantastic body-positive blogs out there, you might have read about one or two recent ad campaigns out there that have been really upsetting people. Now, we don't want to give free publicity to intolerant people so no names and no links to nasty ads here, but the fact is that most of us at some stage have been upset by horrible intolerant advertising efforts - sadly, it's hardly a new problem.