This is a photo of a little bit of colour on a gloomy day. This is the corner of my sofa with some beautiful roses and carnations. These are the colours I love best - as you can tell! How much pleasure colour brings to our lives.

Good shopping day yesterday with Ben and Chloe. It was a real pleasure to spend the day with them. We had a lovely chatty lunch at Jamies. It was great to hear Ben and Chloe sharing their lives together. We managed to get everything we wanted to plus some shoes for Chloe who is going to a 'dinner' on Tuesday with Ed. They are the shoes I would wear if I could wear very high heels!

Yesterday evening Joy and Matt popped in with a very special gift - vintage cups, saucers and plates. I am collecting them for tea parties. I love the idea of the history of them. Each one coming from a home where they have been used (hopefully) for many special occasions or even for many unspecial occasions. Maybe bought for a wedding or anniversary gift and treasured for a whole life time. I have been talking about it for a while and searching second hand shops unsuccessfully but J and M went to a vintage show yesterday. I want them to be mismatched because then each little collection tells a different story.

I am also doing well with my Agatha Christie collection and now have nearly all of Miss Marple's books. I am slowly reading them all - great fun.

Today church and then roast dinner with Paul, Chloe, Ed and Ben - lovely. I may even allow myself an illegal parsnip!