i am SUCH a sucker for aspirational marketing...

[BoysOnToast]

have had new Toast house&home catalogue through post.
i now want All OF IT.
to wear around, and furnish, my tumbledown 300 year old farmhouse in provence, obviously. (i dont have one of those, in case that wasnt clear.)

sigh.

is this nice or fey?

humph!

i dont even know what greige is ! youve made it up haven't you?

gerrrrross!

sorry. that woudl look AWFUL in rl. you know its true.

let me do it, i will be all washed out pastel with accent reds and blues.

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pmsl at this thread.
Today I shivered with pleasure going through a 7 yrs old issue of country living

I read People's Friend yesterday and enjoyed it.
Was in clinic waiting for my colleague to finish her appt. so stretched back in the waiting room and had a self indulgent 10 mins.

Yes, Toast is hopeless for real people. Is there a perfect catalogue that I have not found?

peoples friend?
peoples friend??

im not even sure what that is, but you are dissing my toast-love while being a peoplesfriend-fancier??! im quite sure peopels friend is more shit than toast. quite quite sure.

i quite enjoy a brief squint at 'The Lady'

omg it is still going

That skirt looks like Laura ashley curtains sherherazade. Sorry,I don't get Joules at all.

Toast is awful. Polish potato pickers were never a good look.

Peoples friend is a good comfort read. They always have a lurid watercolour of some wee scottish town on the cover. Looks sort of like a paint by numbers kit.

for true aspiration porn, we need to start a campaign to bring back the Inspirations catalogue.

I used to love flicking through that.

Is that the one full of peach commodes, cunningly designed as vanity stools and ramps for overweight labradors?

Couldn't we do an MN catalogue, full of beautiful, quality and reasonably priced clothes on MNers in gorgeous-yet-ironic poses?

I'm thinking the perfect LBD with baby puke on shoulder, Dyson-ing in sexy trousers and heels, fabulous summer skirt, cocktail in hand, tantrum-ing toddler clutching legs ...

joules is awful
cross between boden and laura ashley with extra trimming

really? i haven't bought anything but thought the girls stuff was cute.

peatbog - we want aspirational. us lounging round together in a seaside shack eating cake with children and partners/grandparents in the background leaving us alone.

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I liked the back page of the joules catalogue - kids eating ice cream in pretty dresses on steps of beach hut. Sigh. Makes you forget about the hell of getting melted ice cream off sandy hands armed with your last baby wipe, while the owner of said beach hut tells you to f* off because his 8'x6' shed cost him £120,000 and your kids are trespassing.

nonsense - you love the boden catalogue esp the hotpotch swimsuits!

lol wilber. you should live in scotland. it is too cold for the icecream to melt and any beach huts will get blown away.

Ah yes, Scotland and aspirational beach wear don't really go well together. We have a similar problem when we go to Wales - picnicking in horizontal rain while the brightly-coloured towelling coverups stay firmly in the bag. Do you think The White Company does a thermos flask?

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