A bit of summer reading...

Hello there, 2011!


I'm looking forward to opening the shop doors for 2011, but it was very lovely to take a bit of time out and recover from the craziness that was the end of 2010.


During this lovely break, I was lucky enough to be lent a particularly fabulous book, The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister. I could tell you all about it, but then you might not read it (which would be an awful shame, because it's wonderful). But I simply had to share my favourite quote with you...

He had exasperated for a long half hour at the florist shop over what he should buy, until the exasperated store owner had simply opened the huge refrigerator full of roses and daisies and carnations, and shoved him inside.


"Choose for yourself", she said, and he had seen them at the back, resting quietly on a shelf above the white plastic buckets or red carnations and yellow daisies. Dusty dark purple tulips, their edges touched with black. They had cost him almost as much as the bottle of Cote du Rhone resting in the bottom of his shopping bag, but he didn't care.

I don't mind you being here for a long half hour, I won't even get exasperated. I probably wont have red carnations and yellow daisies...


But I hope the next time you come to visit me, you find that perfect thing; the flowers you cannot possibly leave behind because it would break you heart to do so. (And if you don't find them, maybe I can find them for you so you can take them home another day).


Hope to see you soon, and in the mean time, hope you find something else perfect - the perfect pair of heels (completely impractical, most probably), the perfect bottle of wine to take to someone spesh, or the perfect cake to take home for a visit. Whatever it is you simply cannot leave behind.

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