The way you looked when I said I was leaving.

Now that I've finished another section of my dissertation I feel I deserve a couple of hours off to do a sneaky blog post.

I found a way to recover all those photos I lost - not before my purse got a tad lighter- so here are a few of my favourites. I had hundreds so it really was a bugger cutting them down to this few but I reckon they give a general idea of what the rest were like...

It is only now that I'm back home that I realise what a great load of bargains I got out there! My housemates keep asking me where I got things- Turkey...and how much they were- about £2.20..and this seems to be the trend for most of what I bought. That's something I've found every time I've been to Istanbul; you can never know how original something is until you get home and see that no one else can get something like that ring you bought from a pile of rings that were exactly the same. I'm sure I'll get better with more shopping practice...

I did swear a vow of no shopping after I got home considering how much I spent out there but only one day after my student loan came through I bought some new jeans...however, I feel it was justified as I have the WORST time finding jeans that fit due to a big ass/ smaller waist/odd leg length so when I do find a pair I have to hand them over and pay before the miracle fades. I'm telling you, jeans and swimwear shopping can reduce me nearly to tears so yeah, I'm so looking forward to Summer clothes shopping:(

Not sure when I can post again as in true MargieF form I've left my dissertation to the last 2/3 weeks before its due in (such a tit) so I'm pretty much drowning in that at the moment...

...Oh yeah...the wedding dresses...you will never have seen anything like it. A whole road stretching for ages is full of wedding dress shops and the dresses are unbelievably hideous. Frilly doesn't even cover it. Think of a disco ball, then apply it to a fussily tiered dress covered in lace, frills, beading, and anything else you might find in the kids section of a craft shop. The ones pictured here are relatively conservative. Provided me me with a lot of visual entertainment on many a bus journey.