Bugatti

We have lived here long enough to know that if you see something you like it's best to buy it on the spot without consideration because if you hesitate it will disappear forever. Every once in a while the big supermarket on the outskirts of town surprises us with a “Just gotta have that!” item, and so it was with these. They are perfect for the cottage! The cottage has sufficient plates and cutlery, and only last month a guest suggested we get some larger soup bowls so we did. We didn't particularly like the soup bowls but they were the least offensive ones we could find. Now we have a dilemma. We have these gorgeous plates but plain white bowls. We have found the bowls that match this set on the internet but they do not ship to Greece and neither will they stack properly in our dish rack. Up until now we have been perfectly content with mis-matched plain white but I think we have just raised the bar.

Separately, it transpires that in almost every case a publisher prefers an author to go through a literary agent. I can understand this, the agent will filter out the rubbish. It stands to reason that the agent must therefore make a cut and will prefer to represent authors who will churn out readable books at a rate of knots. Yesterday's image was the inspiration for my children's story about a petrified rat (Congratulations KarenC!) but now thanks to your help I might be able to tempt an agent that I have the potential to write sequels about; a fish with frogs legs, a mini-dinosaur, a bird or a dead chicken/rabbit. I don't think I'll be able to do the ichthyosaurus because I believe that Tracy Chevalier has covered that one.