Sunday, March 07, 2010

The shade, sponge cake and a man knows the lining of his own coat.

1. A very cheap paper lampshade makes such a different to the bedroom -- although it takes a lot of swearing and cursing to get the old shade down because age has welded it to the light fitting.

2. I paste my mother's sponge cake recipe into my Dodo Book for Cooks. I've been out and bought some margarine specially. The cake comes out much better than the one I baked using butter.


3. The lining of her coat is printed with butterflies.

Dress, drink and catch-up.

1. Walking out of the theatre, I hold his hand so he's not tempted to bolt across the swirly carpet into the forest of legs. We agree th...