Update on Mr Cory's vet fees

[Corygal]

A million thanks to the LT regulars for supporting me and Mr C through his op. He is most perky now. Stealing food as normal, etc.

I thought I'd share some good news. I am selling an old dress of mine in a ludicrously swanky auction next week, as it turned out to be rather valuable. Luckily I machine washed it before it got valued, eh.

Anyway, the massive worry of how I was going to finance his health has eased a bit, am so relieved.

How I am going to finance his Gourmet habit, which he appears to wish to carry on despite the official convalescence ending, is another matter. And I should be buying shares in Dreamies.

He is mewing madly (adorable) which I know is a sign of overactive thyroid, but he isn't losing weight, and I suspect the mewing is just because he knows at the first sign of a little sound I jump to his command.

Oh they are little heartbreakers aren't they. Glad you have had some good news. We have two and one of them clocked up £1400 in vets fees a few months ago. Had every test known to cat, ruled out everything nasty. In hospital a week on fluids, steroids and now as fit as a flea. Has brought in two mice today as presents. Thank goodness he is insured!

I was the poster who suggested Kerry Taylor, have you put it in the next one, or with one of the other houses? I hope you get a stonkingly good price for it, and that Mr C is suitably grateful!!!

Vix - I was going to PM you! Yes, it's Kerry Taylor. Celia Birtwell herself told me that it was a rare Ossie that didn't come up very often and she said 'Tell them it's a nice one'. Boy am I grateful to you - Celia rec'd Kerry Taylor too.

I have to send it off tomorrow - today is the last day of gazing at it. In the meantime my mother has demanded valuations for her Tuffin & Foale wedding suit and her Mary Quant going away outfit. I protested as to be honest, I really want to give my best stuff to my Dneices, and I think she should too, but she wants to flog them. So it looks like Kerry T will be our new family ebay.

I think your dress will fetch a tidy sum, going by the past few auctions. I love Celia Birtwell, she seems such a darling! Tuffin and Foale wedding suit etc sound fab. I will look out for them, I'm not going to the auction (I live very far away), but buy sometimes, so keep an eye on them. I used to sell vintage clothing and its my field really.
You might find your nieces have a very different style, so perhaps flogging things makes more sense. I have two dds, so I do put things away for them that I can no longer get on, or that look too young for me now. But they might hate them when they are teenagers...

I am dead grateful Vix, honestly. I had loads of v early John Galliano (it is so beautiful) that I got for a pennies when I lived across from his studio and we were both on the dole. I used to cash my 40 quid a week, then run across the road to the studio - which was tragically going bust - and just drool and drool. Handed the whole sum over, obv. Walked to work experience, got blisters, worth it.

My best friend, a blue-skinned redhead with a liquid figure who was a model when she wasn't being an editor, also got loads of stuff practically free because she looked so good in it. Even tho I am short and fat, I could always wedge into the samples just because they were so beautifully cut. My stuff was all nicked when I moved flats, but I still have the organza roses that decorated the first catwalk show. They currently adorn my bedhead.

The point of that memoir is to say if you ever come across any Galliano, buy it. Looks amazing on anyone. I've still got loads of McQueen which is as flattering and I hope I don't have to sell, even tho wearing Mr Cory as a fashionable fun fur round my neck (where he is now) is consolation enough.

I have just one Galliano dress, from about 1991/2. It is a simple black satin backed crepe long dress with a curved slit at the front. I bought it in a sale. That has been put away for the girls. I remember seeing those muslin dresses he made in iD and really wanting one, even though my default setting is the decade pre-war.

I had a black satin backed crepe maxi skirt, cut on the bias!! That means we must Practically Be Related in style terms. I wore that skirt to death with trainers and a t shirt round London when I first got a job in the media, like.

Well done on preserving your beautiful dress. Let's just hope the younger generation have inherited our exquisite taste.

We are probably the same sort of age then? I lived in King's Cross for a long time, and there was a very good warehouse sale round the corner. I got some great bits and pieces from there.
I met Lee McQueen a couple of times, as I was working in an antique shop and he came in to buy a bed. I did everything i could to get the bed ready for him on time etc, and then he complained to my boss about me, I was "too friendly" apparently! I was actually friendly to everyone, ( its a welsh thing). I thought he was a bit up himself, I was really annoyed about it, so I've never bought anything of his on principle . I think it was because I mentioned some dresses he had bought from a local vintage clothing shop, ( I knew the owner), as he didn't like being seen to be copying something.

www.1stdibs.com/fashion/clothing/evening-dresses/john-galliano-black-bias-cut-gown-size-8/id-v_257936/
Mine is a lot like this, but with a curved split at the front. .
Have remembered I've got some pretty very 30s style high waisted shorts too.

Yes!!!! The Worx Sale in Balfe St or somewhere like that? I was a regular, not to say an obsessive. The bliss of cheap Ghost and Nicole Farhi. And Hussein Chalayan who I think has been sorely overlooked as the years pass. I went out with a guy who lived in Kentish Town, his mum painted the Delancey murals in the Café Delancey in, er, Delancey St. Was always up near Kings Cross, way before it was cleaned up.

Celeb gold with your Lee McQ anecdote. By all accounts he was a prize twat, this confirms it. Junkies are usually. Now I do sound old - am 47. I tell you who is nice tho' - Ben de Lisi. I used to scuttle to his sample sales to root round in the five pound bin and he would always insist on fitting the stuff to me before I left. What a gent. He once kept Plum Sykes waiting while we struggled to get a skirt round me...

Well done on the stunning Galliano, it's a true gem. Just lovely. (Much, much better than anything old sulky McQ could have produced. )

Mr Cory is not a cheap date. He's had a taste of luxury & he's not going back now. I'm so pleased you've found a way of funding him, without selling organs.

The pound shops do gourmet but you'll have to put it in Harrods bags.

My dm had Ossie Clark dresses, she said the men loved them because "you couldn't wear knickers under them". Frankly, that was more information than I needed.

Ah, I do love you and Mr. Cory.

You stylish and decadent pair, you.

.....The pound shops do gourmet but you'll have to put it in Harrods bags.....

I had a job once where we used to take stuff to Aspreys etc for appraisal. We kept an especially cheap and nasty bag for carrying it to reduce the chance of mugging - so I wouldn't worry too much about the poundshop carrier.

So glad that you and Mr C are doing OK, Corygal.

I'm 51, so rather more aged than you. Yes the Daks sale at the Worx on Balfe St. I had a special pass for Thursdays which was like gold dust, and I lived about a minute's walk away so I never missed one. I still have some lovely bits of jewelry from there, and Workers for Freedom silk jersey dresses. All sorts of more obscure designers, and lovely John Smedley polos for my DH. They did Ghost home for a while, I bought a pair of stunning cushions that I still have. King's Cross was rather different then....I was in Cafe Delancy a lot too, for the rosti potatoes and eggs. We must have crossed paths at some point!

Thanks so much Fluffy, Cozie and Rubbish, Mr C joins me in saying no bank holiday is complete without hearing from you, his three favourite ladyfriends. Although he wrinkled his little furry nose at the mention of Poundland - whereas I love it.

I worry my animal is a snob, but who can blame him when even his servant has ideas above her station esp re clothes. Vix - a gold pass???!! How? I bow my head to you. I met Tanya Sarne once at a Ghost sale once (tries to show off). She said I was fat. That's the closest I got to being a fashion insider.

I have had a shit week - see other thread on shopping my boss - ouf, it was AWFUL - and it is so nice to hear from the loved ones, too. I've got to deal with the whole witness statement thing tomorrow.

Can we have a pic of Mr C?

Here is one of the beast. It is eating roast beef for its supper.

Wonderful boy.

He's so big & cobby. He's very handsome.

Thanks so much, all compliments gratefully received. The vet said 'What a nice boy' once - I nearly burst into tears and told everyone I knew, giddy with pride.

It's Vet Day on Monday, so time to find out how he is. Seems thriving - he's got the arse with me because the roast beef has run out. Even my pauper's dinner of reduced bread in Tesco and Marmite has been sniffed and angrily rejected.

Oh! He looks gorgeous! A lot like my much missed old cat. That is a lovely photo.