Last Saturday I went to Great Longstone, which is a lovely village off the beaten track near Bakewell (and home to one Roy Hattersley), and like something directly out of the pages of a Jane Austen novel (not to be missed if any Austen-ites go to the Peaks to 'do' Chatsworth, as it's very near it). One of the cottages had a Jasmine plant (tree? bush?) in the garden and the smell was awesome. It reminded me I was running out of things that smell of Jasmine to throw in the bath so I got me to Lush the other day.

I love that shop. Men hate it, especially Dave who fears me filling the bath with something containing sticky glitter and which leaves him "smelling like a girl".

One of their new products was, bizarrely, inspired by Neil Gaiman's Stardust:
http://www.lush.co.uk/products/Stardust_3189.aspx

What next? Bilbo Baggins toilet paper? Mouth of Sauron toothpaste? Gollum concealer?*

Oh, I got one of the Stardust bombs, and it was very nice and didn't release an unmanageable amount of glitter into the bathroom you'll be glad to know....



Though they also do Sonic Death Monkey shower gel which is inspired by Nick Hornby (and contains coffee, chocolate, lime and cannabis)...