It’s less than 24 hours to go until the Tweed Run & unlike my usual organised self, I found myself doing a last minute dash to get the final pieces for the day together!
With a busy week off work, today was the only one I had to sort out some rather important elements of the Tweed Run – including picking up our Registration Packs from Rugby Ralph Lauren! I had a few pleasant surprises when I got there: the 1st was bumping into the lovely Loughton brothers John & Jim, who had just collected their packs from the store!
I met them at the April Tweed Run, so it was lovely to see each other again. Once I’d sorted out the packs for me and The Boy in Rugby (the staff in there are wonderful btw, and possibly the most immaculately dressed in Covent Garden), had my 2nd Surprise – seeing Tony (a.k.a Mr Soul Dandy) who I’d also met last April!
Tony and his brother Victor caught my eye on the Tea Stop and I had to get a picture of them looking super-sharp…
I can’t even begin to imagine how good they will be looking this time round… Tony told me a bit about their outfits… pictures of them on the day have to be done!
The rest of my outfit was the next thing on today’s agenda which was all about finding a Tweed Blazer (I would have loved a RL one, but I’m a bit too skint for that right now!) and appropriate Seamed Tights and a vanity-fix which was getting my nails done to match my dress.
Having not booked anywhere to get my nails done, I was expecting utter fail at trying to get seen anywhere on a Friday afternoon for a Manicure – but salvation came in the shape of the O.P.I Nail Bar in Selfridges, who could see me within half an hour of me turning up – result!
They did an immaculate job with my nails – classic round shaping and a deep Red was what I was after, and got exactly that. No doubt I’ll be returning there again for another treatment!
The idea of running around Central London after getting my nails done to hunt down a Tweed Jacket? I won’t lie, the thought of it filled me with utter dread – thankfully it wasn’t a hard or expensive task, thanks to H&M having what I was looking for. The fact there was only one on the rail in my size must have been an omen…
The Seamed-Situation has also been sorted – but you can see those on the day 🙂
So, that’s it – all set for tomorrows ride. Sadly I can’t fix the weather, so I’ll just have to wish for sunshine and clear skies for us all… See you at Covent Garden old bean….Pip-Pip!
