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what is the point of Smythson stationery and more to the point what do you have?

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 15:49

........those little notebooks and diaries, pasport holders, keyrings and visitors books

where do you get yours and what are they like?

samantha Cameron gets 300k bonus

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 16:15

For the super-rich, a £200 lambskin and silk Smythson diary has become an essential accessory along with the Hermes scarf and Chanel handbag.

And the bankers' wives of Notting Hill are snapping up this year's range of Samantha Cameron-designed Christmas cards at £55 for a box of ten.

do the super rich ever just duck out of this stuff and but it at the corner shop or the petrol station

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moondog · 03/12/2006 16:17

I did buy dh an address book last year.
God knows what came over me.
He is utterly unmaterialistic and still wearing the shoes of his mother's neighbour who died 20 years ago.

PrincessPeaHead · 03/12/2006 16:18

I have a wallet/purse from there in a rather nice lime green colour.

bought it at heathrow

oooh in fact it is the one on the home page of their website here , nice, isn't it?

PrincessPeaHead · 03/12/2006 16:19

and I've asked for this for christmas to store all me rocks (but haven't specified the colour)

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 16:21

I had a dressing gown when i was a teenager well for about ten years but it had belonged to a friend of my grandmas who died..it even had some of her breakfast still on it when she first gave it to me, it was royal blue

she used to live in the cors in laugharne..I haven't been there since it was converted

it's now a restaurant

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 16:22

here

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moondog · 03/12/2006 16:24

That looks great Zippi.
Dh's neck of the woods too.

noddyholder · 03/12/2006 16:25

Over priced tat for the boden wearing masses.There is an article in the independent today by your typical middle class woman with all the trappings but unable to afford to get her boiler fixes and is using a little fan heater!She has bought a smythson diary though -priorities!

tiredemma · 03/12/2006 16:27

sometimes I wish I was rich and could afford such luxuries.

All of the items are lovely!

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 16:28

I do have a bit of sympathy for the pleasure of a journal and the feel of paper and textiles though

was it Bruce |chatwin who bought upo the entire stock of a certain notebook that he kept his writings in when they decoded to discontinue it

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moondog · 03/12/2006 16:32

Moleskine Zippi.
They are fab.Have just got my first ever diary in prep. for next year.
They do all kinds of notebooks.
Much more stylish than Smythson.

PrincessPeaHead · 03/12/2006 16:32

It isn't tat noddy - the quality is very good. Overpriced - well that is arguable I guess. The jewellery boxes are a lot cheaper than eg Loewe for example.
Buying a diary rather than fixing your boiler is just stupid, though, you can't legislate for that I guess

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 16:36

the other question is what you write with of course..

(the cors was a lovely house..it's pretty much unchanged outside except they put a conservatory on it..where abouts is your dh from?)

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moondog · 03/12/2006 16:38

Well Cardigan,which isn't far.
I've never been to Laugharne which I gather is becoming very trendy these days.
That's probably a bad thing.

moondog · 03/12/2006 16:38

And one must never ever use a biro.
Hideous things.

SherlockLGJ · 03/12/2006 16:40

I don't put my decent stuff in a jewellery box. I always remember a friend being burgled and the officer said to her, all the good stuff in one place makes it so easy for burgulars.

So bits and bats in my jewellery box and the good stuff in the safe.

That is presuming they manage to get past our mad border collie and the alarm system.

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 16:40

I never thought it could become trendy...yes a bad thing..but it's always had visitors..my grnadma used to write me letters about beatniks and hippies in the hedges

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colditz · 03/12/2006 16:42

I hate to be such a killjoy for FFS! get a grip on the real world, celebs!

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 16:42

do people have valuable jewellery?

I have some old badges

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JackieNoHoHo · 03/12/2006 16:44

Laugharne used to have a fab second-hand book shop. A real maze of little rooms. Hell with children, I'd imagine, but I haven't been back there in years. Doesn't Neil Morrissey own a hotel in Laugharne now?

PrincessPeaHead · 03/12/2006 16:45

I keep it all in a safe. but I do tend to wear the same pieces over and over and I'd rather put it all in one box (in the safe) that I can take out and rifle through, rather than have to open masses of little boxes and remember what ring is in what box.

I know, I know, not exactly a terrible problem to have....

yup, I have lots of nice jewellery, dh brought home a fantastic new bulgari parentesi pendant for me only a few weeks ago hurrah

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 16:46

don't think they are official smythson stockists laugharne bookshop

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noddyholder · 03/12/2006 16:46

That is just showing off!

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zippitippitoes · 03/12/2006 16:47

isn't bulgari the jewellery that got a product placement in a novel (or was it a film)

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moondog · 03/12/2006 16:48

I do think Dylan Thomas was a tedious drunken bore however....