I spent quite a lot of last night trawling through the archives.
I really know how to live.
The rest of the time comforting The Hound from fireworks, he can hear a rocket go off 29 miles away, but can't hear me shouting him to get up on a morning.
So I've taken to giving him commands in French, it seems to work, and also firmly cements me in town as that tweed wearing,
La belle et le bad boy
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A man walks into a flower shop
A man so beautiful he should be in films.
Florist blushes
Man buys flowers and departs with a flirtatious smile and the words
"I'll be back" (without doing the Arnie impression - bonus points)
Florist smiles, turns and catches sight of herself in the mirror with Moroccan chicken soup all down her chin.
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Je t'en prie
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Pheasant with apple and the dodgy pear jelly
Last week i saw something on the twitter. It was a present of pyjamas and a dressing gown and sachets of hot chocolate that you give your children on Christmas Eve so that they might be (instagram) ready for Christmas morning. The suggestion was that you spent hours decorating the box you put them in and your children would have the happiest Christmas ever and if you didn't you were a
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Christmas
It's out there.
Vintage glass votives, gold eucalyptus, ilex, things to make your own things, ribbons, vases, foliages.
I have also made a fresh garland to decorate the front of the shop - pic to follow later in the week...
It's not the sort of thing one can bring in every night, and so it is clinging on through high winds, rain, drunks.
So far it's only assault is from
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Sometimes its hard to find the words to say, I'll go ahead and say them anyway
On Sunday I went to Norfolk on a photography course. An early birthday present from The 'rents.
It was fascinating, no matter where you put me, I will always find some flowers to take a picture of.
Left for the queen? A love that had passed? A blind date that didn't show?
As i spend most of my time photographing flowers and The Hound, i was
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Orange and gold
Yesterday I went big on clementines.
I'm putting them in arrangements, wreaths, garlands, chickens.
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Like the deserts miss the rain
The moment that the first wife walks in to the shop, to find the second wife is here buying flowers.
my cheery hello is met with a stony silence
"not content with taking my husband, you want my florist too?"
Awkward laughter all round.
Life in a small town.
Also
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Reeling
Sage, rosemary, blue cypress, blue spruce, eucalyptus pods, ivy, bay, other pine I can't remember the name of, hydrangea, viburnum tinus, lingunstrum berries, pheasant feather, pear branches, spanish moss, leucodendren.
All reeled onto a traditional brass ring/ moss base.
We don't live in Brooklyn....
This weekend is the weekend we are in the You magazine, I think. I hope, otherwise I'm
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Thank you for coming home
I'm sorry that the chairs are all worn.
Oasis floral spray in metallic gold.
Get behind it. Don't go barmy, just some berries, and wire them into a bridal head-dress.
In other news I have the biggest ball of mistletoe ever seen, so big it wouldn't fit through the shop door, and so i stood with it on the street and everybody wanted a kiss.
I laughed. The sort of laugh i give when I
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9 extra floors
As it turned out we weren't in The Mail on Sunday.
I spent most of Sunday thinking we had been dropped, and that it was Grazia magazine all over again, and was forever to be known as the girl that cried press.
and then i opened for the Christmas festival in town, and people came and said things like
"ere have you seen how much these f***ing wreaths are? I reckon i could make one of those
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This is the last time I'm asking you this
put my name at the top of your list.
of things to do, and bring me your vases for filling for Christmas. Whether it is flowers, foliage, both, bulbs, book it in now.
Taylor Swift and Gary Lightbody - unlikely combination.
Note to Cityboy don't click on the link, dodgy music klaxon.
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The outtakes
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You magazine
Here it is, all 5 pages.
On how to decorate your home for Christmas.
I like being involved in articles that show people how to do things, how to have a go, not be scared of flowers. People can be scared of flowers, i blame those wretched "flower arranging" classes, the 3's the 5's, the triangles, the bridges. It's important to remember that whatever you make will eventually die, we aren't
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Lately and in no particular order
Tales from my iphone and camera.
It is only half the story
The half that involves whites and greens
and museums.
Did you make a resolution to get fit this year?
Me too
I think this is the thing
are you in?
can we do it together with the aid team support and a good sports bra?
Listen to this whilst you do it.
Happy New Year
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In the shop
White and green on the shelves, a lot of moss, and some alstro.
Controversial i know but i am on a mission to try new things.
I am also on a mission to come up with a new Valentine's day campaign.
So far my idea has been vetoed.
Sulking
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A man walks into a flower shop
I would like to buy some flowers for my mother, Mrs D he said
I eyed him suspiciously, knowing that Mrs D didn't have any children, who was he? a love child set to upset life at the manor by revealing himself? a con man?
As it turns out he is the son of the other Mrs D
and this is not 1952
and this is not St. Mary Mead
and I should probably stop wearing all the tweed
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A day in the life
Coffees consumed 4 5
Cakes consumed 0
Chocolate covered rice "cakes" consumed 2 3 4
Number of times hit replay 35
Days until the first Grand Prix of 2014 56
Bunches of dried poppy heads found 1
Valentine's day campaign ideas vetoed 4
Valentine's day campaign ideas decided upon without anybody else's interference or opinions 1
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Quando sono arrivato a Roma a ventisei anni
Last night I watched this film, and immediately wanted to move back to Italy.
Mainly for the roof terrace.
If you like films that are achingly beautiful, dark, observational, make judgements on the Vatican, feature a hefty amount of hedonism, good tailoring, a cracking soundtrack, and papal candidates giving out recipes for Ligurian rabbit.
you should definitely watch it.
Don't watch it if
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Dark days
Good to say my old friend majolica
still not convinced on the alstro
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