to all. Hope, Blue, you get a decent resolution to that situation - gutting.
Aubergines - excellent to learn of your skill set. Perhaps we could persuade you to serve as thread rep!
After two days of schools closures, kids have gone back (albeit with a late start). Delighted to be home alone for a few hours - with just you guys and R4 and ebay for company 
. Freezing though - half the radiators aren't working. I haven't taken my woolly hat off for several days.
The Dark Heart seems to divide us down the middle. Mother and Aubergines - do shout if you need to find swapees?
Mother - you must have smelt some really quite dirty cupboards? 
Seaking of cupboards, one of my SsotD is The Lion Cupboard, which is a glorious wood/aromatic (from memory based on the smell of an old pine linen press in Sarah McCartney's family home?). Clean, warm herbal; comforting rather than musty; it has a great aromatic mint/lavender note, and rich, fragrant base (had to look up base notes as they are pretty seamlessly blended, but they are vetiver, tobacco, vanilla and cacao).
On my other arm today is 4160's aromatic oriental Parallel - featuring frankincense, caraway and mandarin. This was the second Louise Wollam collaboration. It's really good but doesn't seem to get much airplay. Belongs alongside The Lion Cupboard, and Shazam! - think they should considering doing a mini 'aromatics' collection!
Obviously, now I've plastered both arms, the postie has finally made it through the snow, with what looks like a couple of days worth of stuff, including several little packages (ebay). Will report back over the weekend...