Milk and honey...

Chas and I have finished painting the kitchen extension: ‘fluffy robe’ for the ceiling and ‘milk and honey’ (most people would call it ‘magnolia’) for the walls. It requires a lot of imagination to name all the new paint colours, rather than just giving each one a number. Some names bear some slight relationship to the colours they represent: liquid jade, rich cantaloupe and caramel suede, for example. Others are baffling and oblique: kernel of truth, over the moon, basket of bobbins, float like a butterfly and dance of the godesses. Anyway, the room looks good…

Melton Mowbray...