Cups and cakes.

Recently we rediscovered Beaumaris, a small sea-side town on Anglesey, with a grey crumbling castle and a beautiful mountain back-drop. It ticks all the North Wales boxes; there is a fish and chip shop, a smattering of tea rooms and gift shops, a bowling green and a pier and it is within ten minutes drive of the renowned mouthful, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Basically, the perfect place to take your weekend visitors - and so we have been taking our weekend visitors. It was in one of the assorted gift shops that I discovered the work of Poppy Treffry this weekend, as we shied away from the football scores. Printed on tea-pot cozies and tote-bags, Poppy Treffry's scrawling cups and cakes fit right on in with my current East of India/Cath Kidston homeware explosion. So, that decided it. Come August or September when Gabby comes to stay, I am taking her to Beaumaris (exploring the castle, walking by the seaside) and buying enough tea-towels to steep a flood.