OH HOW I LOVE NOT HAVING AN IPHONE AND READING INSTEAD. IT HAS BEEN ALMOST A YEAR NOW. I SLEEP BETTER. I DREAM BETTER. I THINK BETTER (THOUGH IN TRUTH, WITHOUT FACEBOOK AS WELL, IT IS ALL GETTING A TAD LONELY).
STILL: READING DAPHNE DU MAURIER’S JAMAICA INN (HAS A WRITER EVER CAPTURED THE ACTUAL RHYTHM OF EXPERIENCE IN TIME BETTER: I WONDER) IS MAKING ME THINK BIG AND BYRONIC. TIME THEN PERHAPS, THIS WEEKEND (OH BRING ON THAT WEEKEND I AM DYING) SOME VIOLETS AND SOME SERIOUSLY OVERTHETOP BLOODY PERFUME. I CAN’T TAKE ANY MORE.
The Black Narcissus 
Heya,
Nothing to do with today’s post but I do have a quick blame and thank. Nina by Nina Ricci. You love it, I bought it. Now I’m HOOKED!
WOW!
Portia xxxx
YES! YASSS (AS THE HIPSTERS SAY). PARFUM? THIS IS MY BEDSIDE SCENT PAR EXCELLENCE. OH IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL. AND SO UNDERRATED. IS IT NOT SUBLIME? IN A WAY RICCI’S BEST?
THANK GOD FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN A JAPANESE WORLD OF FUCKING BRAINWASHED STIFFS (YES I KNOW I WILL REGRET THIS, SOBER, IN THE MORNING).
Um, I think you brainwashed me into action. I have the EdT on currently and a perfume on its way.
It is beautiful but I am a sucker for L’Air du Temps also and love to spritz the perfume and do housework.
I like you drunk, you have caps.
Portia xxx
Temps sucks snails in comparison in my opinion, a real old dusty cow. Nina is so much more ……….real. Full bodied. Like a person. But ethereal. I really love it, actually.
Ha Ha ha! Glad you’re feeling honest.
Old dusty cow is exactly my style.
Nina is lovely. I’m enjoying the ride immensely.
Portia xx
Desperately unhappy to hear that Prince has died. I put up a thing about purple and then half an hour later hear that Prince has died. I can’t believe it. I really love(d) his music. What a total death horror this year is. Please spare, at the very least, my Madonna.
Its a black year. There will be more. Sadly I have no control over life & death.
Prince was one of a kind.
Portia xx
I hear you loud and clear. ♡
I watched the BBC adaption of Jamaica Inn on DVD recently. I had never read the book but I can see I should. I miss reading. Internet has drastically reduced my reading time. I don’t think the trade off has been entirely worth it, especially FB, but on the other hand I wouldn’t have met so many lovely people, like you.
I am rubbish actually.
Stop that!! You’re great. 🙂
you did it again, with the purple post! I’m finding this a very odd experience of loss.
(Love in) Purple rain, Purple rain… Oh my God can you believe it? Gutted. Thought of you x