Me oh my, but I find myself the proud owner of a new handbag ‘earned’ by writing a caption.  This elegant pink bag by designer Shona Easton (www.shonaeaston.com) is part of her new range for Spring 2012.  All Shona’s bags come in a wonderful range of colours, but she chose pink for Valentine’s Day.  Her challenge was to complete the sentence, ‘I need one of those pink bags right now because ..’.

Hmm, I thought, needs some alliteration here:  how about:’.. perfect pink beats February blues,’  or  ‘.. I’ve a passionate penchant for perfect pink’?

Yes, ‘perfect pink beats the February blues’ is probably the better of the two, but in the end I sent in both.  Shona thought my effort was worth a prize, and now dare I say at the end of an otherwise dreary day I’m feeling in the pink?

It’s a good-sized bag and should be inspirational while carrying my maps and papers when I’m out on the trail researching for my book.  Thank you, Shona!