Strawberries and Spring
Jan. 29th, 2026 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootI cheered myself up, got all prepped, put pretty little gold studs in my ears, dabbed a little Burberry For Her behind my ears so that a touch of strawberry scent* lifted me, and went to the meeting.
It went very well. Badger, who has been absent through some difficulties recently, was back to his cheerful self and gave me a book called Fascinated By Fungi. It's fab! And nicely synchronistic seeing as I just finished off my previously botched painting of shrooms. Turned it into something more psychedelic. The death cap couldn't look less like a death cap if I'd given it wings.
https://open.substack.com/pub/smokingboot/p/three-strangers?r=1r9jj7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Once again I have lots to do. This January feels long. But weirdly, I do feel the presence of Spring. I know, a while to go yet, and the world is not kind. But there it is, the beat underneath. Sometimes you just feel it.
*From the Crimbo potion tree! Second time I have found a really lovely strawberry note, the first was out of the From Hell brand, a fragrance called Crystal Ritual. I can't have a bottle of anything called Crystal Ritual, all the other old hippies will point at me and laugh. But I remember when Burberry was considered somewhat chavvy, so its a reset to take the brand seriously.
It went very well. Badger, who has been absent through some difficulties recently, was back to his cheerful self and gave me a book called Fascinated By Fungi. It's fab! And nicely synchronistic seeing as I just finished off my previously botched painting of shrooms. Turned it into something more psychedelic. The death cap couldn't look less like a death cap if I'd given it wings.
https://open.substack.com/pub/smokingboot/p/three-strangers?r=1r9jj7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Once again I have lots to do. This January feels long. But weirdly, I do feel the presence of Spring. I know, a while to go yet, and the world is not kind. But there it is, the beat underneath. Sometimes you just feel it.
*From the Crimbo potion tree! Second time I have found a really lovely strawberry note, the first was out of the From Hell brand, a fragrance called Crystal Ritual. I can't have a bottle of anything called Crystal Ritual, all the other old hippies will point at me and laugh. But I remember when Burberry was considered somewhat chavvy, so its a reset to take the brand seriously.
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