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Look what I made!

Sorry, I’m not usually a big show off or indeed particularly proud of my attempts at crafty-ness but I’ve just spent the most marvellous morning with the absolutely marvellous VV Rouleaux.

There’s a moment in Alice Walker’s wonderful novel 'The Colour Purple' when the main character, Celie, identifies the colour purple as incontrovertible evidence that God is good:

‘I think it pisses God off when you walk past the color purple in a field and don’t notice it. 

People think pleasing God is all God cares about.  But any fool living in the world can see it is always trying to please us back.’

Sheds have changed. 

Once they were only the run-down hiding places of aging men.  

I love a beautiful home – you know this.

Goodness knows I started my business in pursuit of loveliness for me and my young sons.

Diamond dogs?

I don’t have all that much in common with the beautiful, violet-eyed, Oscar- winning, eight-times married actress Elizabeth Taylor (more’s the pity).  But like her I love dogs and jewels.

I know there is a story that men won’t read maps or ask directions but somehow feel they have a sort of internal satnav that will get them to their destination quickly and inevitably if they stubbornly resist any kind of assistance.

And that’s fine. 

I know many men – and indeed women – who always get there in spite of the anxious questioning of folk like me.  BUT....

In the 1970s of my memory you had two choices for walls:

White paint, or brown and orange swirly wallpaper.  Or just possibly purple if you were an 18 year old hippy. 

Red spells danger, right?

Fire. Blood. Passion. Energy. Primal life forces.  Woo! Better be careful! 

Said with love and excitement on October 4^th. ‘We’ve got loads of room and it’d be so great to see you all.  It’s been ages.’

Image credit: Doggo

Well Doggo’s been suspiciously good this month ....