GEEK

Since I can remember, I've loved fashion. I've loved shopping, I love pink, chick flicks and dressing up. Classic girl. Sometimes I think people won't reach out from the norm, and that's where my rambling is going today.

I really hope this photograph is real, to support my point that nature is amazing. I will sound like a geek, but hey, there's something quite chic about that right?

I sit in bed with my boyfriend watching documentaries, our favourite at the moment being the David Atttenborough 'Life' series. This weekend, it was time for Reptiles and Amphibians, a subject which usually makes my toes curl right under, but I think once the barrier of disgust has been broken, there's so much to learn, and so much to be intrigued by.

Here's a lizard, usually would take me a lot of restraint not to run away screaming, that can walk on water, and is therefore nick-named the 'Jesus Christ lizard'. His predators usually come from the air, and so water provides a perfect opportunity for him to escape. He legs it across, so fast, and by plunging his feet in with such force that he can effectively run across short stretches of water. I highly recommend looking it up on youtube, watching it in slow motion is definitely worth it.

I must begin to tidy up my train of thought, my point here is to geek out sometimes. Admittedly, spending a Saturday night in bed watching David Attenborough isn't how you get wild teenage years to look back on, but do it once in a while, because it IS an amazing way to expand your horizons. Find something else you're interested in, give yourself a wider range, a 3rd dimension.

Smuggling a small bird there sir?

What with it being Vivienne Westwood's birthday today, I cast my mind back over her previous collections, her transition from the rebellious, idolised woman she was back in the day, to a designer that not all of us adore. Following my previous sentence, I'd probably have you believing I'm one of the anti-Viv brigade, but I will just clarify that, in actual fact, I have a lot of respect for Westwood, and am constantly intrigued by her weird and yet wonderful ideas.

On my way through the 70's, past Let It Rock, Sex, over time to Seditionaries, World's End and Nostalgia of Mud, I remembered all the things that have kept Westwood pinned in my interests, but it was when I reached 2010 that my wandering imagination had a party.

Vivienne Westwood designed some silk speedos.

Working at a sports centre, I often find myself face-to-face with men in these (less than flattering) items, and I always wonder quite what can possibly be used as a selling point?! Is it that your whole package is on show, or that any wearer instantly gains the natural awkward walk of a 7 year old in P.E? I won't lie, I think the model at this particular runway show, styled it out well, but I'm more likely to sprout wings and fly than have the pleasure of seeing this bod at my place of work.

But what I would say is the best part of this mental wonder, is the amount of alternative phrases I have heard for these particular items. You could be at the beach in your banana hammock, at home in your miffies, or rocking out in (my personal favourite) your budgie smugglers!

Happy Birthday VW.