I'm a sucker for design, I'll admit. I'm the person that will pay more for the better designed bottle of olive oil. It makes me happy, using stuff that looks good. Shallow? Perhaps.
I like the edict of William Morris: "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful". I don't necessarily live by it, but I like to think I try.
Right now, I love this wooden bowl which I picked up for two quid at the car boot sale a couple of weeks ago. Hand-carved in Fiji no less, according to the woman selling it. It's huge and slightly wonky which only makes it better.
I don't drink coffee, but I love to make it in this Chemex coffee maker, which looks like it was designed in the science lab.
I do drink tea. A lot of it and I like to drink it in this cup made by Rachel Dormor who I met at the Country Living show in London last year. It was a ridiculous amount to pay for a cup probably but I love it more every time I use it and it makes me happy.
These were a bit outside my comfort zone. Usually I buy boots in tan, or failing that, black. But I was feeling reckless and what the hell. And despite my natural aversion to purple, I like them, my Bensimon boots. Currently worn with rolled up jeans and my ubiquitous stripy t-shirt, they're a little pop of colour in these darkening autumn days.
Elsewhere, I'm loving:
- a 7-year old who's starting to read to herself, starting with a box set of Dick King Smith books picked up from the car boot sale on Sunday.
- the final episode of Breaking Bad, which must surely be one of the best series ever on TV. And the final line was perfect (no spoilers here).
- baking, reading, sewing. The usual suspects.
- counting down to seeing my friends on my next Hong Kong trip...!
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