darlings
a lovely day in santa monica – and a quick whip around the farmers market in santa monica with the newest resident of This Coast just before lunch!
so happy when lovely people decide to escapewinterinmanhattan move WEST!
now.
what else?
let’s see…..
we popped over to Lamill Coffee yesterday and they had ever such gorgeous blooms on the counter top.
we managed to s l e e p through an entire night and wake up at dawn so the #jetlag is subsiding at last!
and our gift to William has been framed in Whitstable, by William, because we only carry hand luggage so we had to put in rolled up in our case and not encased behind glass which is what he has done Now (and this is our version annotated – digitally with a virtual stylus on our Galaxy Note – oh thank you! yes, how clever – from William’s Own post earlier today on Instagram – how Modern)
and it being a Weekend we’ve been drinking rooibos tea (deeply South African) and reading the Financial Times (Very European) 
and this was Santa Monica early this morning where we went to meet some friends for a sort of non-breakfast (chatting but no food – actually rather nice). 
and this FANTASTIC creature was at the tiny petting zoo where small people can give nutritious looking pellets of food, we assume, to the small animals therein, at the Farmers Market on Main Street
here’s a “wide shot” as the say in the movies (actually not that wide, they’d probably call this is a 2-shot if we hadn’t caught the hooves of some other type of creature top of frame) just to get the full effect of that bona riah (do you speak Polari, love?)
then after our lovely chat with the newest resident of Los Angeles (Jonathan, not the bizarre creature with the fluffy “do”), we took a drive up into the Hills above Sunset Strip to admire the view and dream wistfully of what’s next..
this is the Sort of view that gives itself to Wistfulness as I’m sure you can see. 
as do chandelier lustres. 
and *gasps* nice “likes” from the National Trust on Instagram (terribly Modern as William would say) – looks like somebody learned howtosearchforhastags ;-)
and now we can admire the apples we bought at the farmers market before heading out into the evening (hopefully we can stay awake!) to be sociable and see friends we’ve not been Able to see because we’ve been asleep by teatime since returning from Abroad.
how lovely.
how nice.
in fact.
did you have a delicious sunday evening?
which television program(me) did you end up watching?
oh!
did you see Doctor WHO?
we’re dying to see that one……..we’ve been promised it on a thumbdrive in the Post.
yes.
that’s how we receive Television Transmissions over here.
it’s perfectly lovely.
what’s that?
oh.
excellent point.
*smilessweetlyviainterweb*
you want to know Where we bought William’s artwork gift?
do you remember the Wish List where all that lovely tulle and beauteousness lived?
we bought it there.
yes, then.
we were Dying to put up a picture at the time but William might have seen it so it would have Ruined the surprise.
we’re good at keeping secrets special information hidden.
just so you know.
