Surprises

In a week (a month?) full of surprises, two tangible ones: a surprise care package with petals, delivered in person by a surprise visitor, and going to a new page in the gorgeous personalised diary another friend made me to find St. Patrick's Day decorated with pressed shamrocks - somehow I had missed that page when I looked through the book to admire all the quirky illustrations.

And a third one, not pictured: a book delivery arrived surprisingly early - I now have my third Deirdre Madden book, Authenticity, a novel about art and love, apparently ideas-driven like Molly Fox's Birthday. I am thinking of saving Authenticity for Easter, but have a suspicion I might start reading it this evening.