IT NEVER rains but it pours for a bit, then goes so sunny you need factor 20, then pours again.

And what's the best way of spending a weekend affected by such peculiar weather - why, standing in a field of course.

WIMBLEDON may be over for another year but that doesn't mean we've seen the last of that great summer favourite - strawberries and cream.
Those delightful people at Krispy Kreme have come up with a strawberry and kreme doughnut that is sure to tantalise those tastebuds.

WONDER Workshop, the 70s fashion label worn by rock icons Sid Vicious, Mick Jagger and Marc Bolan, is making a comeback.

John Dove and Molly White have reinvented the range for the 21st century in a collaboration with Top Man.

HERE'S what we voted for this week...

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CLARKS. The sensible shoe store has become the name to know now that rapper Jay-Z has confessed to loving his Clarks Wallabees.

I have fallen in love. Truly, madly, deeply in love.
It is the real deal too. I can't stop thinking about them, I can't stop talking about them and i can't wait to see them again.

WE'LL all be spending Sunday afternoon standing in a field where we may or may not be getting soaked through to our underwear by the teaming rain.

No, we're not planning to perform some kind of ancient ceremony to ask the gods to bring us lots of sales bargains, nor will we be testing out our wellies ready for Creamfields.

IT'S reassuring to see that the credit crunch has hit the great and the good.

Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour was spotted wearing the same outfit THREE times last week.

WATCHING the new musical Once Upon a Time at the Adelphi last night with all its wonderful 1930s costumes and realised its been at least a year since we featured a vintage fashion shoot.

Given the credit crunch it seems a good time to do another one so, after a quick chat with the Playhouse's press officer in the Circle Bar after the show, we are - next week on the very stage that inspired the idea.

BROS are the latest band to jump on the comeback bandwagon and announce they are planning a reunion tour.

After the success of Take That's return to the pop spotlight, numerous band have seen the pound signs and decided to forget about their past differences and infighting and reform.

SOMETHING exciting is happening in Tokyo and I think it would be perfect for Liverpool.

Louis Vuitton and Comme des Garçons are opening a temporary store - it will be there for just three months selling six one-off bags and then wlll vanish without a trace.