Friday, April 08, 2005

Coo, surface and fruit.

1. Fat collared doves sitting in a hawthorn tree covered in bright green leaf buds.

2. My new computer table. I have been working off a child's desk which is most unsatisfactory. So a honey-coloured pine table that I can actually get my knees under and that doesn't wobble perilously when I move the mouse is much appreciated. It has that lovely new wooden furniture smell - which is probably mostly turpentine and woodstain.

3. Tinned apricots - they look like egg yolks.

Escape, tulips and samosa.

1. This morning, I'm piling into a car with friends to escape into the Weald, where we will visit a garden planted with 45,000 tulips. 2...