Bikram yoga

40 minutes into a 90-minute yoga session in a room heated to 42 degrees, long ago sweated out any toxins or indeed fluid left in me... "Allez Katharine... pull from down your elbows!" ... my hands keep slipping, wringing as they are... head up, drops fly... "Reach for your toes"... blood pounding, head spinning, deaf in one ear... sodden trousers stuck to the legs so far from my head... trousers? what was I thinking, the woman next to me is in a swimming costume. I don't remember it being quite this tough.

Bikram Yoga, Paris Grands Boulevards or Marais

Tomatoes from our neighbour's allotment ready to roast. The fruity, herby tang of the last days of summer.

At the rue Cambon...

Another beautiful treasury from pink milk Sarah who has been pretty good at catching them these past few weeks! Le look parisien par excellence, ma coco... Love it.

Walking into the sun

Café au lait in the sunshine with a fresh-from-the-kiosque copy of French Grazia which launched this morning, followed by vintage-hunting and sunshine wandering round my quartier.

Plenty of secret moments in my favourite places while D has been away.

Old ladies outside the hairdresser, rue Lamarck.

This little china ring dish is already available on pink milk vintage.

Glass pot found in the same brocante... this stays with me.

Sunny summer days

Bring me Sunshine vintage lemon top... cool down in pastel shades... up the poolside glam factor with your Carrie-style pearls.

Hot summer days are a little cooler in Paris, which means I'm running faster for La Parisienne race in a few weeks (*sponsor me for the Lymphoma Association*) and sleeping more at night. Over in Crete it is still blazing, which means plenty of pool time for pink milk Sarah and some lovely light for vintage photo shoots. Some super finds for your wardrobe coming from Chania over the past few days...

In the Garden vintage red dress... Japanese-inspired blossom print for drifting round the market... but hands off the parasol!

Lost on a Greek Island vintage skirt... long and A-line, for nautical eighties style... set it off with sharp navy and red, our current favourite colour combination.