. . . despite an affinity to white and soft-hued rooms, [dusky pinks and smokey lavenders], every year, around this time, always seem to fall head over heels for more vibrant colours, wild rose and daffodil, and now, this astonishingly lovely shade of turquoise, that looks as if has been flung from far-off and tropical seas, especially when perfectly paired with a spring bouquet, bits of coral, and warm floods of light . . .
. . . and the weekend began with an enormous bouquet of palest pink long stem roses, and in between afternoon sunshine and starlit dinners, there was [finally] the chance to see the film, melancholia [beautiful, depressing], and there were visits with old friends, barbeques and beaujolais, and many hours spent planning for the enormous [& enormously exciting] changes ahead, and today, a new week, filled with brand new and wonderful things . . . one of which, is below . . .
