Soap Aria

Now for something in a lighter vein. . .

Here in this house, we love handmade soap. It is our only weakness. The best is from Marseilles but you can't always get it, so yesterday, passing a likely shop in London, we popped in and spent nearly a fiver on a bar of Tuscan soap. It said on the front that it had been 'saponified and packaged with love and care'. 'Saponified' is, of course, a classy way of saying 'soapified', which made it irresistible. On the back, however, the script got even better.

TUSCAN LAVENDER soap
Absorbed in a bloomy landscape, an alluring soap in its semplicity but with an irresistible charm.

So now I can saponify myself in the shower each morning while dreaming of those bloomy Tuscan landscapes.