The little things that give pleasure

The small daily pleasures are hardly trivial, quite the opposite in fact. Like Sally, I think it's worthwhile to notice, acknowledge, and record them.

And every item has a story...The "japanese" bowl on the right is my morning-porridge bowl. They came from the Musee Guimet in Paris, acquired on the way back from a meeting in Barcelona, while travelling by train; I arranged to have a day in Paris and spent it all at the Guimet, looking at oriental art and having a nice lunch in the restaurant. Love that museum!

And the blueberry-blue countertop continues to give pleasure. It looks particularly good when piled with the ingredients for ratatouille - the gold of onions, the dark green of courgettes/zucchini, the red of tomatoes, the dark purple gleam of aubergines/eggplant.