Typically the weather was amazing all last week until Saturday morning when the heaven's opened and the temperature dropped drastically again...but look who's come out to play again whilst we are all stuck behind our desks on a Monday morning...Mr Sunshine!

As I have been taken down with a serious bout of Monday blues I am dreaming of my next holiday and all the stunning summer kaftans that will nail the elegant goddess picture I have always aspired to, but never quite succeeded! All hail to the unflustered, beautiful women that sit sipping their Pina Colada's poolside with not a hair out of place, a dimple in sight and that deliciously dipped in wood-varnish colour!

My reality is somewhat different to that. The morning starts well- panama - check, floaty something or other- check, book and ipod- check. Give me an hour or two and the hat will be sailing on the pool's surface to every child's wild amusement, my hair is a frizzy barnet and my cheeks...well actually my entire face looks like it could pop off it is so red...as for the rest of me, well my body has a stubborn incapacity to colour evenly leaving it a patchwork of burnt and brown with some white bits intertwined randomly.

Whilst my friend Nicolas Touros is not the answer to all my problems, his original designs are certainly the answer to some of my beach issues! Check them out at www.turudesign.com - the race is on to the check out as I NEED one in every colour to feign goddess status!