Chocolate and ranunculus

 

It's still raining. 

So I bought some ranunculus.*   

This is clearly the right thing to do, even if nothing else is clear through the rain on the glasses.  I bought my new little friends** on my way to the optician, who proved to be a young Sri Lankan with the most amazing name, it's enormously long and sounds like a song when she says it.*** 

            I need new glasses.  I already knew that.  What I was not expecting however was that oval rimless with narrow plain gold earpieces are...