Adobe Air

I didn't have a title for this post, but I was playing around with anagrams. Adobe Air = Brodiaea. That is a flower I had not heard of till yesterday. Brodaea, also known as Triteleia, and popularly called "The Cluster Lily" is, it seems, a member of the Asparagales family.

But whatever their complicated classification, there they were, in tight bundles, in the flower section of Sainsbury's. And they were so BLUE - an amazing deep inky blue, like the Quink I used to have in my fountain pen at school. It's my turn this weekend to arrange the flowers in church. So I bought some - along with other blue flowers [irises and lisianthus], and took them to church.

When I purchased them, they were in tight buds, and as I started arranging them in between the creamy white chrysanths and roses, it felt like embellishing some white lacy embroidery with lapis lazuli seed beads. They soon began to open and display their lily-like characteristics. I hope it is not too hot in church over the weekend, so that they stay fresh and beautiful.

On a different note entirely, I spotted another confusing car park sign this week. I have often watched shoppers with huge trolleys in IKEA, B&Q, Homebase etc letting their children ride on the carts even though these ones are clearly not fitted with a child seat. I saw this sign in a carpark, and thought it might mean "Do not let your children do acrobatics on the trolleys"

But turn it the correct way up, and you realise it is simply another version of the "parent and child parking" notice.

Like Macbeth, I think I must be suffering from "a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain". It has been hot here in Dorset

I was going to say "I hope you are all enjoying the sunny weather, and not suffering too much with hay fever." Then I remembered that many of you are outside of the UK and your weather is very different. Bless has experienced two earthquakes in California this week, and I hear that parts of Canada have been unseasonably cold.