Minnie’s Musings

Before I got waylaid by fond memories of a sunny stroll… was I wonder whom Donald Trump heard using the phrase, “I am very disappointed in…”. Perhaps his much lauded mother in her Hebridean brogue.

Speaking of familiar phrases. I am now never going to say “Yum, yum” again, thanks to the Dark Prince. Yucky, yucky, yucky.

And I have literally just had an epiphany – no, really, in the last 10 seconds.

Having spent part of our train ride listening to America’s and hearing the ever delightful Sarah Smith and Marianna Thingummy joking about discussing the fashion choices of Melanie and Kate, I was initially “so disappointed “. Haven’t we spent decades wanting to be recognised for our brains not our choice of shirt-waister?

But now I think, “why not? “. Why not discuss frocks and hats. It’s what we women do, frequently. We collectively spend millions on fashion and there is a special place in many a woman’s heart for that expedition where you go and buy a frock and a hat with heals to match in the certain knowledge that you are highly unlikely to wear it more than once, twice at a push.

It is so good to hear two women secure and confident enough in their hard one positions to express this interest in frocks and hats knowing that the only people who will slate them for such girlie chatter are people who merely aspire to their achievements. Without the talent or drive to emulate them.