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Stunning weekend. Yesterday I was sharing a bottle of wine with the Codebreakers (it being after 11am, oh and Mrs C is technically a Keybreaker rather than a Codebreaker; I could try and explain the difference but my brain has just stopped hurting) - anyway, wine with the Codebreakers: so we got talking about China, jade, carving, and onto stone name seals.

So I showed them my little stamp of 'Orlaith'. My brother bought it in Stanley Market, Hong Kong - where coincidentally, Mrs C had bought the cardigan she happened to be wearing. The world felt small.

Weather's been fabulous - everyone's starting to look tawny again.

What's in a name?

This reads 'Orlaith' according to a little seal stone stamp from Hong Kong. I guess it's in Cantonese, or maybe Mandarin...

My brother explained to Mister Stampmaker how my name was pronounced versus how it was spelled, so who knows what he finally decided on carving. It probably reads "Orla-with-a-t whoever heard of such crazy names golden-haired princess indeed..."

This is the result when the stamp is used with the accompanying dinky pot of semi-solid ink. I also tried it with my Mont Blanc ink but it was, ahem, not entirely successful.

Off to scrub my hands some more...