Roses

[smokingboot]

This has been a difficult weekend. I couldn't go to the Havocstan event because I was scheduled in for a show. I ended up doing three, all very lucrative, but once again, I have not started my next project, a particularly beautiful one which requires peace and sweetness. It may also require Paris, but I can't see how to manage that right now. The best I can do is try to evoke a romantic vibe...

Roses, I thought, roses.

Scented roses were nowhere to be found, so I took the advice of blackcurrants and ran off to Selfridges to try Jo Malone Red Roses perfume. It was soft, so rich, and intense, a velvety red red rose...

There was also Serge Lutens 'Sa Majeste La Rose,' a rose perfume with green notes that was, um, well, a grassy rose...

There was Stella by Stella McCartney, a pink, sophisticated girlish rose...

There was Ted Baker's Rose, Czeche and Speake's Rose, there were a thousand roses.

Then I tried Jo Malone Wild Fig and Cassis, and felt so happy and free I sprayed it all over myself and ran away into the wind, laughing like a fool. Next time I go into that shop I must buy something, they're beginning to look at me funny.

So clearly the roses I need must be found in a garden or a florists; I think I want white ones and Calla lillies, delicate and melancholy for my story.

But for me, I want to smell like a crazy shaking fig tree!

PS if anyone can tell me why my HTML coding isn't working, I'd be very grateful xx

Comments

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It looks as though you have written up the LJ User tag incorrectly and that has baffled the rest. Put that right and you should be away!

On other business, I haven't had chance to annotate the text yet, but I'll send you sdomething midweek if that's OK?

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Cheers, I've moved around the spaces but it doesn't seem to be changing! I am completely baffled, must have missed something really obvious...

Re other stuff, whenever is good, looking forward to it:-)

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Have you missed out the quotation marks either side of blackcurrants? There should be no gaps between the brackets, = sign, or words except between LJ and User.

[LJ User="blackcurrants"] substituting "<" and ">" for the square brackets.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I feel as though I've eaten crazy beans! I think I've got the formatting right, but nothing is changing! My head hurts x

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Me too. I'm out of ideas. Is there an html tab on the 'post' window that you may have turned off inadvertently?

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Uh...that would appear to be it. Thank you Maestro!

[bytepilot.livejournal.com]

Yay for caddyman!

also (snuggles)