A single blue hyacinth has appeared in the flower bed in the courtyard. Having never grown anything in my life (apart from bug-riddled carrots in my grandad's allotment as a child) I am thrilled. I shoved the bulbs in last spring, not imaging that they would actually grow but voila - they have. Does this mean I have ‘les doigts verts?’
Today I wore: flower-print Marni skirt, brown suede knee boots, scarlet cashmere v-neck from Benetton.
Two years ago I hung up my high heels, put the Prada handbags into storage and left behind my fashionable West London life to renovate an old village house in rural France. Et voila. This blog is about what happened next....