In the Pink

Pink is an awesome colour. This is why I have transformed my blog to reflect this. Pink was my favourite colour when I was a little girl. Then it became green, then blue, then purple, then back to blue... but really I love all of those colours now, and they are four key colours you will see in my clothing and in my bedroom (black, red and white feature fairly heavily too).

However, this is an entry about the colour pink. So, at present, I am surrounded by the following things in this rosy shade: I have a pink duvet on my bed, there is a pair of pink slippers on the floor, my PC (made lovingly by fiance and one of our housemates a couple of years ago) is pink, there is a pair of pink pyjamas drying on the bannisters just outside my room, and next to my computer is a gorgeous photo of me and my best friend, when we went for a professional makeover and photoshoot together before she got married, sitting in a circle of pink light.

When I was 8 my parents decorated my bedroom - the colour of the paint was called floribunda pink. To complement it the woodwork was painted baby blue, the furniture was white with pink and blue sweet pea patterns stencilled on, and all of the linen was pink, blue or sweet pea design in those colours. Looking back, I adored it then, but I'm not sure I could put up with that much pink in one room again. However, for my blog I think the colour pink will do just fine.

:)

The Gamrie Goat

For Christmas, amongst the many lovely gifts my fiance's parents bought me, was a basket of soaps made from goats milk! They come from The Gamrie Goat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and they also contain a load of delicious sounding butters, although I wouldn't recommend eating them...

I love the quirkiness of the idea, and it was lovely to receive something that wasn't just your standard Christmas bath set from Boots etc. The soap has been much kinder to my skin than the conventional shower gels I've been using before, and it's nice that they're not heavily perfumed either.

My fiance's mum also threw in a bar of goose egg shampoo, also from The Gamrie Goat...I haven't tried this one yet, but I look forward to giving it a go :)

I have added The Gamrie Goat to my list of favourite websites, along with Soggyfrog, a friend's small jewellery business, and took the opportunity to edit the list, explaining why I love all of those particular websites and the links they have to my everyday life. I would like to make my blog generally a bit more funky, so watch this space as I have a play with all the different features...

God's Little Gifts

Spring has sprung! I didn't want to go to work this week. It took an immense amount of effort to get out of bed on Monday morning.

But look! The sun was shining brightly, the sky a clear cloudless blue. Birds were singing and chirruping merrily. It was a little bit chilly, but still bright and beautiful. My mood as I walked to work was uplifted as I drank in the glory all around me. The final part of my daily walk to work is through a churchyard near the office. As I got through the gate I spied snowdrops dotted everywhere - in the bleak winter grey of the previous week I hadn't noticed them. Scattered amongst them were the tiny purple buds of crocuses beginning to appear. Then a blackbird darted out into the path in front of me, grabbed a worm in her beak, hopped a few paces back in the direction she had come, regarded me for a few moments, before quickly disappearing in the direction of her nest. I smiled to myself and almost skipped the last few yards to work.

I've been pretty down recently, and I can't say my week has been fab. I've mostly been worn out and very bored with my job, but there are those little things, those little gifts from God - the spring flowers, the birds, the sun shining instead of rain pouring on that 20 minute up-hill walk - that go a long way to lifting your spirit high out of the doldrums, at just the time when you need it. I love God. And I love His spring :)