Inspired by Instagram (Jasmine Hemsley's recipe) for turmeric, lemon and pepper salmon, but completely couldn't be bothered to look up the recipe. So I made my own: mixed lemon juice, grated lemon rind, turmeric, black pepper, grated ginger and a little sea salt, painted it onto salmon fillets and baked in the oven. It was very delicious. (I'm sure it would work without the ginger, if you don't like it).

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botemp · 18/04/2020 10:08

That sounds good too quirky, would probably work with other fish too as I'm a bit weird about salmon, love it raw or cured but hate it cooked or smoked. Something about the fat when it renders down becomes really unpleasant to me.

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botemp · 18/04/2020 11:27

Whelp, I've just killed a granny and ordered these Céline culottes 2nd hand. Bit of a gamble as the picture doesn't really show them worn but they allow returns and currently 10% off and free shipping. The stretchy waist appeals to me, stop questioning me about granny.

If anyone's looking for Equipment shirts they've got quite a few of them at good prices, especially with the 10% off/free shipping this weekend. Loads of other stuff too, it's too much to take in tbh. The free shipping doesn't show up until the final step, it appears like you still have to pay for it when selecting shipping.

Less memememe, Dior has released a whole virtual tour/documentary of the Dior exhibit in Paris www.designboom.com/design/christian-dior-designer-of-dreams-exhibition-virtual-tour-documentary-04-06-2020/?utm_source=designboom+daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dior+releases+famous+%E2%80%98designer+of+dreams%E2%80%99+exhibition+online. I've yet to watch but will this weekend, most likely, first short impression of it looked excellent though.

On Vogue Paris there was an article about small independent brands that were doing charity donations of sales and I've kind of gotten all coveting over LouLou Studio the S/S collection is somehow the perfect stay at home wardrobe with lovely materials and stretchy waist trousers and the resort looks a good option too if this lasts into autumn. I'm liking the t-shirts especially, the weight and cut looks good, no closeup shots so can't tell you about the seams. Slouchy v neck jumper is also demanding my attention although I hardly ever wear a v neck anymore, if I do, it tends to be something slouchy though... Also loving the orange jumper (resort I think)

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Floisme · 18/04/2020 11:59

Well bo if I die I'm going to hold you personally responsible. And I warn you I won't be happy.

Although I might let you off if this is the same Dior exhibition that was at the V&A? I was so pissed off at missing that.

I'm grumpy today cos I woke up to find my hair has turned to shit. I swear it wasn't so bad when I went to bed but it's lost its shape overnight. I'm going to have to wear a bandanna for the remainder of lockdown and channel Keith Richards without the drugs.

First look at LouLou looks promising but my first thought was, what about the seams?? What are they trying to hide?

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botemp · 18/04/2020 12:20

Yes same exhibit except the Paris one was larger.

There's a special place in hell for seam hiders, but from the looks of it the t-shirts hang very crisply and straight that's probably down to thicker cotton but at the very least the seams are not comically wonky as that would show even at a distance.

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botemp · 18/04/2020 12:23

And the Dior exhibit should be in The Hague in the autumn, so you could still see it potentially. Think it'll be smaller though and the surroundings will be different as it's in a 1930s modernist building. I'm definitely going again.

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ToEllewithIt · 18/04/2020 19:57

I’d never heard of Loulou studio. Love these trousers.

I’m also enjoying all the food chat.

We’ve started shopping at our local independent small supermarket as they’re running it like a military operation. Cleaning trolleys between use, one way system etc etc. Its more expensive, but less stressful. They treat the staff well too.

XingMing · 18/04/2020 20:18

Like Loulou Studio, just not the exaggerated sleeves. In my life they would always be wet and dripping. But I generally don't do sleeves at all until they are rolled to my elbows, except in the depths of winter.

Floisme · 19/04/2020 09:59

I was thinking of some of those Loulou things all day. The wide trousers of course but also this dress even though they only do black and natural (cheers for that, Lou) and I'd look a bugger in either. Also very taken with this louloustudio.fr/en/home/1868-new-bruzzi-oversized-sweater.html. Oversize is normally way too long for me but I'm guessing that one would probably reach the top of my hips so perfectly decent.

I know what you mean about the sleeves though Xing. Anyway it's strictly looking only as I'm fully expecting to be out of a job when all this is over so need to get used to a lower income.

banivani · 19/04/2020 11:44

Sadly it is impossible to describe my office in a humorous way because it is just tedious and predictable in its stagnancy . I ended the day with an angry email to my boss and grandboss detailing the process I had to go through AFTER THE DEADLINE to get the documents for the board meeting (12 matters on the agenda), pointing out that AFTER THE DEADLINE I must have had at least ten conversations (email, Skype chat, stick-head-through-the-door chat) PER AGENDA POINT god I don’t even know the English word for it so about 200 conversations then AFTER THE DEADLINE. it’s just not funny after a while.

I’ve also got the rage about idiots who can’t keep their fucking fucking distance as if it’s difficult - when there’s actually not that many of us in one spot and it’s easy to spread out. Why do they want to make me into the crazy woman who sticks her arms straight out from her sides so she can get through a group of people that have spread out all over the path? Fucking fucking fuckers the stupidity of them.

I found the vite envogue a bit annoying and confusing so gave up. But I hope the culottes are good!

I am definitely going to check out the Dior exhibition if I can get some piece and quiet (it seems that as soon as I try to do something worthwhile everyone has to talk to me). Thanks for the tip! :) I keep meaning to look at the virtual tours that have been put up from museums all over the place but I never do.

I am in LOVE 😍 with the trousers from Lou Lou. But I am not in love with their size guide that doesn’t have measurements, their models’ contorted posing (feels very “done” albeit French as hell), the shop layout 🙄and sentences like this “By taking again the organic side of the shell, I created these sweaters as a comforting envelope bringing positive waves throughout the days.”

Redandblue11 · 19/04/2020 16:15

I am going to watch that dior exhibit, thanks Bo for the tip. It was amazing when we saw it on the V&A , want to revive that

Lou lou studio looks great, but I only did a very quick glance at some of the stuff.

My office , virtual, is full of batshit at the moment. I don’t know if I have very little patience or what but they are doing my heading at the moment.

Is a glorious sunny day today.

quirkychick · 19/04/2020 17:17

I will look at the Dior later.

Not Celine, sadly, but adding to my collection of wide-legged navy trousers I've just ordered this jumpsuit from plumo. I was eyeing it up last year and it popped into my inbox at half price. I quite like that you can wear it with or without a top under and it looks loose enough for lounging around the house.

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botemp · 19/04/2020 18:02

Argh just lost a long post.

Quirky, I like the jumpsuit but I initially read it as trousers and that you were daring enough to lounge around with trousers and no top on

The LouLou trousers look very you, Elle. Our local organic supermarket/minimarket where I always do the bulk of our shopping anyhow is similarly militant. One in one out, carts are sanitiser. They hired two giant security guards to organise it all and you're very sternly told you're not supposed to let go of your cart. You can't enter without using their hand sanitiser, you're allowed to feel up the fruit and put things back all you like though Only supermarket where the staff has gloves and have to swap them over every 30 mins at that.

Sorry to hear that about your job, Flo, really hope it isn't the case. My industry is looking bleek too and I graduated into the last crisis that took a major toll on it then. I have enough reserves to ride it out but not sure how sensible it is, might need to consider alternative sources of revenue down the line.

Bani, you don't need to be funny, on the internet you can just be sarcastic and everone will think you're joking when you're just being really mean I mean this is what MN thrives on after all, don't believe the penis beaker hype

Food chat, thanks to Bani's panko comments and Elle mentioning Feasts cookbook I've managed to come up with something. I've attached for anyone interested, Saturday is undecided will either be BBQ if the weather is good or takeout/delivery from a restaurant that's affected in the faint hope of keeping them going.

I also killed another granny by buying this ridiculously cheap Equipment shirt. On the fence with the pattern as it may be very preppy but at just under €6 including shipping I've bought it with it being a pyjama shirt in mind, if I can wear it out, it's just a bonus.

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Floisme · 19/04/2020 18:47

Thanks bo, although in the scheme of things. It's no big deal really. I'd like to carry on being profligate and annoying my boss for another couple of years but if they don't survive they'll just pension me off. (This is of course assuming that pensions don't go tits up too but my brain can't go there just yet.) I'm far more worried about whether my son will ever find work - his generation look set to get a big smack in the eye I fear.

That Dior is fab. The post-war New Look stuff was fascinating and a timely riposte, I thought to all those predicting (even on S&B) that after Coronavirus no thinking woman will ever care about fashion again. Half of me was shouting, 'But no woman is that shape!' and the other half was, 'OMG it's stunning!'

Keep on raging bani. And a shout-out to all the un-heroes toiling at home in our unessential, unfurloughed jobs, fighting the family for the only decent lap top and praying the wifi won't peg out again.

Floisme · 19/04/2020 18:48

6 Euros! For Equipment What's it made of?

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botemp · 19/04/2020 19:08

100% Silk. Only worn a couple of times, don't think they had any idea what they were selling. €4 for the shirt and then 1.89 for shipping and fees to the market place. It was posted 5 days ago and only viewed 3 times, people really aren't interested in buying anything these days.

I worry for your son's generation too Flo, but they said that about my generation too but we managed better than expected. I'm strangely not overly pessimistic as I sort of feel everyone's in the shitter together and we know what the cause of the (financial) crisis is, it's just managing to crawl out of the current scenario without too much damage that'l will be defining. The last financial crisis was far more unpredictable and it was difficult to anticipate what the best response was, we kind of know what to do now. I'm assuming there will also be some sort Marshall plan 2.0, at least in the EU but hopefully wider than that.

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Floisme · 19/04/2020 19:18

In the EU perhaps - but in no-deal post Brexit UK ....

Speaking of which, there's a damming article about Boris Johnson in the Sunday Times today, so I think his post CV honeymoon is over and we can go back to being rude about him.

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botemp · 19/04/2020 19:32

Yeah, I saw he missed a lot of important meetings (cobra?). It popped up in the Guardian and then disappeared on me (the app has been crap lately). I'm not sure if he's personally responsible either but they missed out on collective purchasing plans with the EU for flimsy excuses as well. It really sounded a bit 'dog ate my homework', the whole we want nothing to do with the EU is rather ridiculous in a time of crisis.

I must say from over here the reporting on the lack of PPE in the UK is horrifying, on par with the Triage shock in Italy. Yes there's shortages everywhere but not in the scope of the UK.

Mind, the NHS has always been used by politicians in the EU of 'what we don't want our health service to end up like' as an ultimate horror scenario and even otherwise generally balanced media plays into that as well.

Plus Brexit negotiation not going well means, per usual weird British attitude, I have to take that reporting with a grain of salt. But I have to say I'm surprised with the lack of public outrage over the fundamental protection of NHS workers, so many becoming ill and dying, the nurse whose baby they delivered while she passed away really knocked me.

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Floisme · 19/04/2020 20:26

I think people are mostly too stunned to get angry but that will change.

By all accounts Johnson spent half of January-March in a country retreat with his fiancé, Marie Antoinette style, while his advisers tried to warn him there was a shitstorm heading our way. It'll be the subject of GCSE history essays for years to come. The Times is normally sympathetic to the conservatives so to see them putting the boot in like this is quite extraordinary.

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botemp · 19/04/2020 20:50

An unsympathetic leak in a Tory friendly paper... I was wondering why there seem to be so many 'Boris or bust' bots on here lately, Cummings is on it, I see.

I don't know if I can handle another Tory backstabbing party leadership coup and 20,000 further Brexit negotiation extensions. And you're just the neighbours next door. Poor all of you

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banivani · 19/04/2020 22:17

Ah Flo I missed your job woes fingers crossed it doesn’t come to that.

banivani · 20/04/2020 09:56

It is now too warm for wool scarves. The only lighter scarf i want to wear I own is a long, tube, mustard think bought from Penney's for about a euro. It's a surprisingly good scarf, but the material is cheap, just polyester, sort of stretchy matt jersey. I'd like something that feels as easy but nothing is grapping me. Something big but light I can wrap around.

banivani · 20/04/2020 09:58

holy mother of god.

Thing.
Grabbing.

XingMing · 20/04/2020 10:22

It was probably leaked to the Times by a senior civil servant, and they're not fond of Boris. I don't expect another leadership contest, and BJ has a solid majority in the country and his party. Stirring it up, I reckon.

Love the silk shirt bo... I keep looking for a nice silk shirt in a wearable colour.... and Quirky's navy jumpsuit.

Fingers crossed for your job Flo; fortunately DS will only be starting uni in September, thus deferring the search for work for a while longer.

XingMing · 20/04/2020 10:25

Sorry Flo... missed mentioning your son's job quest. I think it will be difficult for some time to come. Wishing him every success, and soon.

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