Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

Sunday randomness

Old World Cup tops in my Chinese Basement mall.





New flowers from Flannel Flowers





Wish I could "borrow" these exquisite stems of Heather!




Baby Mammoth Madness in IFC mall
 VERY old indeed


Agnes B Fleuriste
new South Africans, always in fashion


Blue freezias

The ultimate blue flower
Iris



i want i want iwant iwant iwant iwant iwant


Little hussy!



There's a Taiwanese Food Festival at my local supermarket.   Apparently the food comes with the Chinglish.
I bought a packet of purple yams "sweets", shaped into drolletjies.
A tin of pearl milk tea
Job's tears congee
and
a packet of peeled baked Chestnuts.


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