Every now and then the stars align

Boy and girl meet by the great design
Could it be that you and me are the lucky ones?
Lana Del Rey

The stress has kicked in, i need a slap, or somebody to massage the knot out of my left shoulder.

I need to start drinking water and stop with the coffee/ diet coke/ nurofen.

I also need everybody to understand that ranunculus are the best thing in the whole world ever, because i have a lot of them.

In the shop

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A new book by Laetitia Maklouf. Do you remember the first one?

This one is called Sweet Peas for summer. It is as lovely, but with extras because we get a mention. Yes we, the blog, that means all of you too. Amazing.

Buy it for that reason alone, buy it from me, we will be stocking it. It would make the perfect gift for Mothering Sunday.

It's the sort of book you don't need a degree in Latin or special qualifications from the RHS to read. I find those books intimidating. Also i have been to the pub with Laetitia, she is our sort.

In other news, people are being quite taken by Tillandsia Xerograhpica, I have been wearing one on my head.

and The Hound is being The Hound, and doing sod all to help with the impending weekend.

Who knows what tomorrow brings?

Probably the same as today.

Potting muscari in bowls with Spanish moss, using pussy willow as supports for hyacinths, pricing, wrapping, waiting, daydreaming.

Until you can get started with the flowers, that's the thing with a perishable product. It's all last minute.

That's why i love it.

Also did you see the hat? Verdict? I loved it, such a pleasant change from Kate and her jaunty angled pill boxes.

We are still taking orders for Mothering Sunday, delivering locally on the day. What a treat.
and then we will be closed for a week.

Fermeture Annuelle, because of the fair, and the drum and bass and the candy floss, being 2 metres from the shop door.

We have plans.

Things in pots

I have been potting up and making pictures for the website

so i thought i'd put them here too.

because it's Mothering Sunday this Sunday, in 6 days, probably 5 by the time you read this, the blogging schedule has gone a little weird.

and is it just me, or does it get harder and harder every year to find a card that says Mummy and not Mum?

sometime i have to add in the m and the y with a pen. It's not the same.

How do you like your eggs in the morning?

 

Scrambled.
The black pudding really is the best i have ever tasted. Serve with scrambled egg and toasted rye bread, and maybe a spiced tomato juice, maybe with a slug of vodka.

Fancy

Double tulips.

Still contemplating going red

and antlers

and snipping at the pear tree waiting for the blossom

I need your book recommendations. I have read all mine, many times.

and i love bendy straws more than is normal for a grown woman.

Did you weekend? was it good? Did it involve bendy straws?

Friday's child is loving and giving

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Friday is market day here in Stamford, it's a proper country market. The Hound and I run the gauntlet before we open the shop. This morning some rather energetic play bowing with a border terrier nearly sent an entire veg stall flying, and he tried to goose a guide dog.

This morning there was white sprouting broccoli.

Back at the shop, we have been given the gift of rosemary and black pudding. The black pudding all the way from Stornoway, i know where that is, because i have the maps.

and the child will not be usurped by a girls' world. Even if the flowers have been out of water for 2 days.

The Hound loves it when she comes.........

Brunch of black pudding at mine on Sunday?

Ranunculus or anemone?

 

Would anybody notice the difference?

Other questions

Can i change my name to Misty?
Why oh why is The Hound howling?
Twice today people have said I look like...............Adele. Good yes?
Why am i listening to Sk8ter boy?

also it's buddleia. Do not cut it yet if you live in the UK, it will die before you even get the camera focused. It's too young, wait a bit. If you live in warmer climes where it's summer all the time. Congratulations.

We are open this Monday, we only open 3 Monday's a year, so come and buy things for your Mummy or just come for the novelty. Bring coffee and some cake.

Yes, i like Pina Coladas

and getting caught in the rain.
I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape.
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll plan our escape

There is never a small child around when you need one.

So i have a stand in. A girls world, or rather a generic girls world.

and pots of bulbs.

The Hound is back from his filming trip to Marrakesh, Sofia Coppola did a good job, he makes a brief appearance at 10 seconds in.

Love the Marni prints, but somebody once told me that no girl with a D-cup or above should ever ever wear a drop waist.

Also Rupert Holmes possibly the only popstar called Rupert?

Pink is not the only fruit

This morning one of my customers brought me the Waitrose Mothers Day flower catalogue.

"So that you can see what are they doing" said he.
"How kind" said I

I think he was expecting me to rant about supermarket flowers, he picked the wrong girl.

The main thing that struck me, was the PINKNESS of it all. Everything was pink, everything. I thought this both shortsighted and canny. Not everybody likes a cliche, but it makes buying stock very easy. Also i did a quick stem count and was left a little flabbergasted.

Waitrose know how to charge.

I don't have any photo frames or teddy bears to offer you as an accompaniment to your bouquet, but i can make you something beautiful, wrapped in a map, and could include a piece of coral?

Miss Pickering; catering for the Farrow and Ball mothers..........