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Today I am mostly admiring the condiments

They're magnetic!
They can be used with one hand!
They look like startled bunnies!

I love our new salt and pepper mills.

Today I am mostly doing the groceries

Bags full of goodies for a cancelled Sunday lunch date (Ginger has the lurgie, poor thing)  lugged back on foot thanks to bus delays caused by this.

I softened the blow with a banana frappe from Coffee@ Brick Lane on the way home... so wrong, and yet so very right.

Today I am mostly enjoying lunch with my Mum

A fleeting meeting over lunch at Leon in Spitalfields with my lovely mum. Scatty staff but good food - we had yummy bean and vege soup.

Today I am mostly working on my sketching

Inspired by the Carnet de Voyage trend in French publishing we discovered on our recent jaunt, Ginger and I promised to do ourselves a favour and keep a sketchbook. A retro-fit notebook on Paris is planned, and one of our forthcoming Italian trip is promised.

To that end I treated myself to Danny Gregory's book The Creative License, which is full of tips on building confindence with drawing and keeping an illustrated journal. Inspiring stuff. Today I have been dipping my toe in with some of the early exercises...

Today I am mostly trying to work

Though obviously photographing my pile of diaries and notebooks is also important...

Today I am mostly sheltering from the elements

Turned out nice again.

Avoiding the hailstones, Good Friday afternoon on Upper Street.

Today I am mostly enjoying silver and brown

My Columbia Road pussy willow is proving to be a super-value buy. Still gorgeous.

Today I am mostly wishing The General a happy chinese new year

I love my little terracotta warrior, his name is Chin (Xin).

He's a souvenir of the absolutely incredible exhibition at the British Museum until 6 April. If you find yourself in London you really should go. It rocks! Of course now we need to go and see them in China, but that's an adventure for another day.

Today I am mostly drinking coffee

...despite having so much tea on my window sill (the cocoa tin? Full of tea). Maybe the coffee-fast will go better tomorrow!

Day 9

Today I am mostly promising to eat healthily

Day 8

Abel and Cole delivered a mountain of lovely organic goodies and my h-uuuuuge fruit bowl is full to bursting. So no more excuses!