Out with a lot of materials, in with just a couple

Today I made it to the thriftie, and unloaded a large box plus four large bags of art materials for other artists' playing pleasure.  And, since I was there and fair's fair, I also found a couple of nice things to bring home.

Namely a little basket for a waste paper basket, just right for the spot where I've been throwing stuff before finding there was no wpb there.

And a silk/cotton mix cardigan in eau de nil.  Pearl buttons. Very nice with a white top and jeans.  I will feel, up to a point, all Lucia about this.  It's the eau de nil reference that does it.  Like her living room after she barged in on Mallards after poor Elizabeth had to sell and move.  

EF Benson fans will already have picked all this up from the color description, but the notes are for those who have not yet had the pleasure of the Lucia books.  And the amazingly good television series, starring Prunella Scales and Geraldine MacEwan.  And wonderful Nigel Hawthorne, doing Georgie to a t.  And a lot of other stars.  This was the  1990s version, not the recent one, which was a more bloodless and a bit dull.

The good part is that the dialogue on the tv series is almost word for word EF Benson's writing.  Such an ear.