If I’d thought about it really hard, I’d probably have been able to suss that the thing that would make me happiest in the world would be Beyonce singing a cover of Jolene. But it wasn’t until I heard it that I realised this was the case, and now I can’t stop, and won’t all summer. It has been a pocket of joy in an otherwise horrendously busy past four weeks. I hate saying I’m busy, it’s a smug narrative and the only person ever truly convinced by it is me. But the fact is I have been, Claire and I both have, and we’ve strayed from the beauty path a bit in our posts given trips to Space NK and the like have been the last things on our minds.
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