Hello friends! Welcome to the thirteenth post of my Dorset mini-series! Get ready for a fortnight of pictures and posts in which I will attempt to do my summer holiday justice. Here's hoping that the holiday will be good, I'll remember to post every day, and that the cottage we're staying at has wifi (fingers crossed). Thank you for deciding to join me on this little adventure - I can't tell you how much this means to me!
Today was my second-to-last day in Dorset (boo), and we decided to head into Dorchester for the day. If you haven't read my previous posts, you may not know that Dorchester is a town not far from Beaminster with a nice selection of shops and restaurants.
However, before we went to Dorchester, we wanted to visit the old fashioned sweet shop in Beaminster town square. My brother and I decided to walk down together, buy the sweets for everyone, and then be picked up my mum so that we could head straight on to Dorchester. En route we were caught into a ferocious downpour which completely soaked me through (I was wearing jeans and pumps which definitely didn't help my situation). We ran into the shop and bought out goodies, and liked into the car, relieved to get out of the rain.
All the way to Dorchester I was disgustingly sticky, so I was very relieved when my mum suggested going into a couple of stores and buying me some new trousers to wear. She also bought me some plimsolls to wear too. I actually love my new shoes and trousers and think they're so pretty and comfortable, so MASSIVE HUGS to my mum for that. I had never been so excited by trousers in my life...
After trousers and shoes had been purchased, we wandered around town, browising in shops like Waterstone's (we spent A LOT of time there) and Seasalt (a Cornish clothing brand), and enjoyed a lovely lunch of jacket potato with prawns and a large hot chocolate (which definitely helped me get warm again). I eventually worked up the courage to ask my mum if I could visit the mothership (a.k.a Boots) and I scurried round the makeup counters like an excited child (I'm sad, okay?!) until I decided on what I was buying. I dithered between lipsticks, but decided to save buying them for a while, and instead opted for the Maybelline 24 Hour Colour Tattoo in the shade "Pink Gold", something that has been an object of my infatuation for a while. I'm obsessed with the colour and can't wait to try it out - let me know if you'd like me to do a review on it on this blog once I've tested it.
That was my only purchase of the day, surprisingly enough - I was simply content to browse for the rest of the shopping trip.
Eventually we headed home to see my dad and Dusty, who had stayed at home all day because Dusty wouldn't have been allowed in any shops and my dad's not a major fan of shopping. We had a makeshift afternoon tea in our conservatory and then had pizzas from the pizza van we'd visited last Thursday (they were SO GOOD). I then got really depressed because tomorrow is our last full day in Dorset *sobs loudly and unattractively*.
Righty, that's all, folks! Until tomorrow...
Olivia x
Check back tomorrow for Dorset #14!
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