Today brings practice posies and a request for event styling and flowers for a big top wedding, has someone been reading my ‘oh if I could only marry in…’ diaries?

Don’t get me wrong, I love a classic wedding, posies along the aisle and a Rex Harrison buttonhole but an off the wall affair really tickles my turnip.

Gorgeously overfed carthorses adorned with rose and feathered head dresses, girls wandering around in trapeze outfits and happy colourful clowns serving canapes…

Katy England and Bobby G went mad for it as did this sweet couple.

Electric blues, hot pinks and scarlet red with a splash of golden yellow, flower chandeliers and burlesque backdrops all spring to mind….

O bought me the enchanting Circus which sits next to a carousel horse and 30’s tutu on the boat. That and a bit of gertcha and that’s plenty o inspiration. xxx

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity over an advertisement which reads: ‘A murder is announced’…

I should be tippy tapping and making giant fishing nets but there’s noone quite like Aggers to get you sidetracked.

Miss C adored roses and fills my bookshelves with brilliant baddies.

You can almost hear Poirot on the pebbles here, tour her finds ici and meet the best Marple here.

Blood red paint, crocosmia and bamboo await…

It’s no secret my celebrity crush is most definitely Cecil Beaton.

Fuelled by My Fair Lady I’ve found myself falling in love again with his florals and fancy ways.

His penchant for costumes and high camp fashion for Ascot scenes and Audreys.

Have definitely got me pining more floral prints for Gypsy Rose parties…a divan, deckchair or dress?

Yup, its fair to say you inspire my work all the time and dearest Cecil…I even named a rabbit after you. xxx

On my bike and back from the weekend with arms of Beswick, 1930’s postcards, old baskets and forget me not cups. I’m working on windows, weddings and with women in fash.

Sunflower central for a bakers dozen behind me I’m discovering fabulous bloggies…and I forbid you not to love karen Blixens fancy floral work.

Pain du miel I can not recommend more btw. Happy mondays xxxx

Leaving candlelit parties with friends and the boat behind, we’re bracing ourselves for:

Pink ponies in the New Forest.
Effervescent elbows at fairs in search of vases.
Visiting Grandma and ordering Eggs Arnold Bennett.
Listening to Noel and LL cool J.
Buying trotters from Toast.
Experiencing O’s Sterling Moss moves.
Most definitely dreaming of verbena lemonade.

Have a lovely weekend xxx

Farewell to France and a hello to that Friday feeling…

Bonjour to Brigitte et sa chanson, a lovely rose named after her for my flower filles, (kind of like a rasberry drenched crazy horse don’t you think?), and to Madame Cho, Arnold and Bardot’s animaux. xxx

I know I know they’re twee but rolling around in the fields of Normandy there’s nothing like dreaming of my own gypsy caravan and a porch upon which to peel my pots…

A week spent leafing through gorgeous french blogs getting inspired by Jeanne Bayol’s caravan loving ways, coveting an escape here, filling vases with ma’s garden roses, having celebratory soirees and eating under apple trees.

On the road again, a return to London, a race around Paris in the heat…no more baguettes, but blooms, boats and boutiques to dress. xxx