golden slumbers

Suggested listening to accompany this post: click here, open it in a new window, turn up the volume, and sing along! And if you want go back in time: try this.





I slept badly last night, and my wonderful man, Mr. Dot, let me sleep while going to the gym @ 6 a.m., coming back, realising the toaster had packed up, going back out and buying a new one, making himself toast, and waking me with a kiss & a cup of tea. All the time I was having dreams of the sea & sand & sky, and picturing a posting of Carry & another guest @ the WEBA awards ('on mothers, daughters, & mermaids')







It wasn't until later that I realised, it's not just Golden Slumbers, it actually segues into Carry that Weight. Nothing like a bit of serendipity to start the day. Carry's gorgeous custom made golden silk dress is from a designer based in Spitalfields, and when I next talk with her, I'll get you his name. If it's Paul, I'm going back to bed, because I'm surely dreaming.

p.s. update: just asked Carry, it's not Paul, it's Amin Phillips, of 'love and be loved'. This is all I can find on him for contact details - a phone number, basically - but watch this space, as that dress is too gorgeous for him not to be hugely successful.

on mothers, daughters, & mermaids

Speaking of mothers and daughters, this is my friend Carry Sommers and her delightful daughter, Sienna (top), at the WEBA awards (read about it on Carry's blog, here). I wish she'd won, but how could she compete against two nice women who created an organic lubrication product for women's, err, intimate parts?
It was a great event, tho, at really cool church in Shoreditch, with yummy canapes that Sienna & I kept scarfing down, but it was quite dark inside. I shot it without flash. Sienna was such a star. I asked her to stand very, very still, which she did, but just my breathing could have blurred it. (I've got a lot of really good ones of them both, shot outside in the still bright summer evening light, which I'll post another day). Had to post these, tho, because I love the colours: green/blue/indigo/purple palette of a tropical underwater scene. The colours of our living room, growing up. Okay, now I miss my mom. Gotta go book a flight to the beach house asap! Can't wait for my brother and sister to come out there with my nieces, and be mermaids with them in the pool, or in the sea.

Have a lovely, summery weekend, wherever in the world you are. And if you happen to live in the Southern Hemisphere, hope it's so tropically warm that it's endlessly summer for you.