Mrs B goes to the mall

So today I went to Westfield, a new-ish shopping centre in Shepherds Bush, West London. I arranged to meet my dear friend, the Delightful D, ("DD"). Below, the Mulberry shop.
I made sure to ask permission to take photos. Some of the sales assistants were a bit hesistant - I think they had heard about my prowess sewing on the name labels, and knew it was only a short step to knocking together a rip off bag or frock or pair of shoes.
This is Prada, these mannequins were wearing the shoes that Jane from Sea of Shoes has. DD and I decided we like Prada, but we do not "get" Miu Miu.

Here we have Dior and some of those iconic Princess D type bags, in all different colours.

DD had her work cut out keeping me under control, I was so excited to see all this loveliness under one roof. I kept squealing like an over-excited toddler at a new playgroup.

We checked out the Dior clothes, just in case they were giving them away. They were n't.

Then we found ourselves in Ferragamo. I am afraid I don't have Ferragamo shaped feet. My feet are more downmarket.

The scarves were luscious. Sadly there is no Hermes in Westfield, so we will have to make do with Dior. Sorry MaiTai!

OO, Jimmy ChOO! ExpensivOO.

DD gave me a Chanel polish, Jade Rose. Thank you so much DD. As you can see, DD is v elegant, she reminds me a lot of Faux Fuchsia. Look at her chic nail polish, I have never seen her sans polish. DD is also big on thank you notes. So she and FF are practically twins. Here DD is showing me her latest perfume find, by Diptyque. And I loved her pretty blouse.

This family had come from the sticks to do a bit of shopping but were quite frankly disgusted by the amount of leather goods on sale. They said they recognised a bit of their Auntie Hilda in Ferragamo.

A queue outside the Apple store. I think it was for the new generation IPod.

DD's cute blouse came from TopShop, so we whizzed in to see if I could get one so we could be twins. But sadly they were all gone.

Westfield really is a Superior Establishment. Architectually it's quite something, and very shiny and clean, like a nice airport terminal.

And then the clock struck 2 and it was time to get in my car before it turned into a pumpkin... and the most shocking thing of all? I did not buy anything. The summer hols have obviously taken their toll. Don't tell anyone. Don't want to lose my reputation.