Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Eastertide, free sample and sleet.

1. The deli has many strange and wonderful Easter items on display -- licorice fish; dove-shaped cakes; boxes of coloured eggs large and small and crates of chocolate sardines in silver paper.

2. Nibbling cake samples in a shop.

3. Feeling vindicated when it sleets as predicted on a previously sunny day.

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...