Quirky names, cool colour combinations for 2014
Dew-soaked plums bobbing on a knotty, lichened branch; freshly mashed pumpkin pie steaming by the Aga; emerald mosses torn from the blue laddered light of the forest floors — reading around the paint colour cards for 2014, I was carried away on a light wind of downy prose.
Then, the needle rudely scratched the Chopin playing in my head, and I came across ‘Mole’s Breath’ by Farrow & Ball. Yes, readers, a paint name inspired by the breath of a mole. Was the consultant for F&B lying on Caulke Green grass, looking up at Lullworth Blue sky, when a mole strolled up and delivered a tiny worm-pungent gasp on his/her cheek?
