Fargo Feels

There's a new vintage clothes store that's recently opened in York called Chinese Laundry and God damn it's all killer. We went to York last month to do our Christmas shopping for everyone and ended up spending something like £118 in this shop just on ourselves. My eye was immediately drawn to this coat because of the colour - you know I love me some rust! Anyway, as soon as I realised it was also suede I was friggin' having it regardless of price.

Ben got a gorgeous coat too and some really nice checked shirts. There were other things I was actually gonna buy too until I remembered we were there to buy for other people so I put them back.

I call it my Fargo coat because I feel pretty '70's North Dakota in it. Oh and a nice touch was that deep in one of the pockets was an old US cent. 

It was a seriously good shop, you should check them out. They're on Facebook and Instagram.

Ps. Did you watch the 2nd season of Fargo? How handsome is Angus Sampson!?

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Florence + Me

As you know from my recent post about York, I met up with my old school friend, and one of my best mates Florence. I haven't seen her since she stopped over for a night just after my birthday in February. It was just after I'd had food poisoning and was still feeling a bit crappy so we didn't end up going anywhere or having any adventures.
This time though, all was well and the sun was shining on us. We were together again in York, just like the good old days. I can't believe it was 10 years ago that we were first hanging out in York.

We went for lunch at the Evil Eye on Stonegate where we sat, ate and listened to each others troubles. It's a really cool place, we used to always end up there at some point during a night out in York. It's very colourful and bohemian and very dark at the same time. It even has big wooden four poster beds in the room.

 

 

 

 

Afterwards we caught the bus, the old Selby 415, to Barlby where she's back living with her parents at the moment and where I lived for six years during high school.

Everything was such a blast from the past. Being on the 415, seeing Barlby and how little it's changed, Florence's house itself! Her house is my all time favourite. I thought I had a lot of house plants but her mum and dad are on the next level! Everything is so colourful and bright, some walls are bright green, some are blue. One room has a bright yellow floor which I love! It was just so good to be back.





 

We went to sit in the garden where she showed me her two new guinea pigs, Thunder (balls) and Lightning.

It was so strange to be back in a place I lived for so long but hadn't seen for about five years. She and her dad Mick gave me a lift back up to York to get my train. He's really cool too, he's a big Dylan Thomas fan like me and we always end up talking about blues music or Bob Dylan.
I can't wait to plan more with Florence soon, she's going back to visit her friends in California for three months in October so hopefully there'll be some summer adventures to be had!

 

 

 

 

 

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The Creative Directory: Bowler Vintage

 

In a sentence:

The greatest vintage shop in Yorkshire and certainly one of York's many treasures.

 



Without a doubt, every time I visit York I visit Bowler and last Tuesday was no exception. As soon as you walk in the door you're presented with this vast emporium of richness. I can't stress enough how much I love this place! I have so many things I've bought from here. I've got my sunglasses, polka dot shirt and two paisley shirts and a wooly hat for Ben.
It's such a good place for vintage gear because they have such a large range of everything, you're really spoiled for choice. I must take Alex here some day, she would just die!

 

The sunglasses here are always absolutely killer. I was umm-ing and ahh-ing over those orange ones for a long time. I eventually decided it was probably for the best to save my last bit of cash for the bus. Seeing them again now has made me realize that was a terrible decision. Style before common sense God damn it!

It's a must see in person if you're ever in York but if you're further a field you should have a look through the online shop.
Ps. Check out their Instagram for the cutest dog you'll ever see!

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Ye Olde York

On Tuesday I decided to go to York to see some friends. I have the week off work and my old school friend Florence is back from California and my other school friends Lee and Aron have moved back to the area too so I thought what better time than now to go see them. My plan was to meet up with Florence first when she finished work at 3pm, so I booked my train to get into York for 12 so I would have three hours to do some solitary wandering round my old home.

Unfortunately I didn't get chance to see Lee and Aron so we're gonna rearrange something soon. Nevermind though, I had a blast walking round the city and reminding myself how nice the architecture is here and I did meet up and have a really good day with Florence. That deserves it's own post though so more on our mini adventure soon!

 

I must have looked like a tourist with the amount of photo's I was taking. I deliberately didn't go walking round the centre where the shops are. I didn't go to shop, I went to revisit old memories and capture them. So I went wandering round the narrow side streets, cobbled courtyards and even sweet little everyday houses. I even revisited the riverside which I used to walk along into town when me and Ben had our first date. I went to Fulford too to see the Cemetery (that'll get it's own post soon). Also to my all time favourite independent vintage shop Bowler (more on that in the next Creative Directory post).

 

So here are a collection of photos for you to enjoy of the lovely city of York. Maybe one day you'll visit and see for yourself.

The Rock of York

St. Wilfrid's Catholic Church



The Minster

 

 

 

 

 

 

I went to see Florence up in Clifford's Tower where she showed me around and took me right up to the top. The panoramic views were amazing. It felt good to be back in York!

 



on the horizon you can see the old Terry's chocolate factory



you can see the minster in the background here

the building on the right is the York Castle Prison where Dick Turpin was imprisoned before being hanged by the Knavesmire

 

 I think since I've moved away from York, I kind of enjoy it more. I wonder if any of you have found that this happens? I get genuinely excited when I go on a day trip there even though I used to be able to walk into the centre whenever I wanted. It'll always be a joy to visit York.

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