One of my worst traits is losing and forgetting things. My passport, my phone, my camera, handbags, jewellery, you name it. Somehow it’s things I’ve lost I’ve had returned or handed in, however last week my luck ran out. I was doing a photoshoot and left a brand new (arrived that morning and I wore it to the photo shoot) Cashmere set hanging in the bathroom, and realised when I got home and opened my suitcase, finding it missing, then checked the photos and could see it hanging in the bathroom after I took my final selfie. This definitely ranks amongst the “First World Problem” leaderboard 😂 But still, so annoying to have owned something for less than 24 hours and it’s already gone. Hotel claims nothing was left despite me having photographic proof of it being left in the room. It’s also the second incarnation of a set that I bought last year that got eaten by moths 😭 I love cashmere and think it’s worth the investment so I went to buy this set again after finding out it couldn’t be repaired (the moths really feasted on this one, whatever the opposite of Ozempic is, that’s what these moths were on) only to find out one of the items had been discontinued. Oh the horror of realising something you like has been discontinued! I therefore contacted the company (a small Italian brand), and they offered to custom make me the discontinued cashmere trousers, a 1/1 special order (this may seem excessive but I believe that life should be full of special little missions and side quests, of which this was one. It’s different from purchasing off the website, I had it made to my measurements and in a colour they no longer do, along with a new sweater (these moths must have taken their battle tactics from Genghis Khan, they ate the whole set, sparing nothing at all)). 1 day after getting the brand new made to order set to replace the eaten set, it’s gone again and the hotel won’t acknowledge that the item was clearly pinched from the room(!)

Speaking of which, and on a bit of a tangent, I once in Amsterdam left a bracelet in a hotel bathrobe (I took it off before my massage). I realised at the airport and called the hotel. They claimed nothing had been handed in and the bracelet wasn’t there. I told them it was expensive (which it was) and therefore I’m coming back to the hotel with the police. 5 minutes later they called me back to let me know the bracelet had been handed in and will be sent to me immediately in a taxi. How miraculous that it suddenly appeared!!! 😂 This was a top hotel as well, kinda makes you lose faith in mankind because stealing is such a cowardly and personal crime. Somewhere, somehow, some random woman will be wearing my custom cashmere set that I got for myself. I can’t stand the thought of it 🙁

Anyway this is a long way of saying I can’t bring myself to buy the same set again. I’m also somewhat superstitious – a number of things I’ve had have been stolen from me more than once (stolen once, replaced, the stolen again), and I’ve started to think it’s unlucky to buy the same thing back 3 times. So if anyone is feeling kind, the third replacement has been added to my wish list below.

If it gets stolen again, then this is the final straw and I shall spend the rest of my life naked.

B❤️