To my SS on the other side of the pond,

I want you to know that I will appreciate whatever you choose - the more you like it, and the more that it says about you, the better. The hint about purple is aimed at making it easier if you have to choose between different colours. But I'm sure you know that already. I'm sure that you are just teasing.

That isn't to deny the fact that I do have a purple addiction, though. At the supermarket one day I saw a little girl excitedly telling her mother about a purple water bottle, or something equally mundane, that she had found on the shelves. I wanted to quietly warn the mother that purple-addiction doesn't get milder over time, but in fact gets more acute. I catch myself sometimes getting just as excited over little, silly things which I don't need, and have no earthly use for, that just happen to be a lovely shade of purple.

Helen