A mixture of things today ... I thought I'd start with a couple of gorgeous fashion pages ripped from a recent Sunday supplement. I love the layed look of this first picture, and the dramatic colouring. That scarf is amazing. I'm not usually a fan of grey, but these muted shades look great with that berry coloured chunky cardie. I also love the skirt in this next image, those floaty feathers. Also the sheer incongruity of high fashion in the veggie patch!
Next up - we're moving on to literature. Yes, it's a highbrow post today! I've over halfway through the mighty Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, and still loving it. The way the writer conveys that world of Henry VIII and his court, it's stunning, the power of her imagination is so deep and the story compelling. I hope if there's a TV adaptation it manages to strikes the right note, I'd hate it to be a disappointment.
Still on books, I bought Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, having not read that particular Dickens yet and having loved the Andrew Davies BBC adaptation on a year or two ago. He's an author who suits winter afternoons and evenings. There are some books that are definately winter reads, aren't there?
Finally, still on the subject of writing, I used to do a lot of 'creative writing', mainly short stories, but that kind of stopped when I got so into crafting. But I want to get back to it, and pictures are often a good way of generating story ideas or characters. I found this intriguing picture of a girl writing a letter at the Sphinx by the river Thames. What's she writing? A love letter? To whom? There's a melancholy air to the picture, you get the feeling things aren't going to have a happy ending.
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