We all get lots of circular emails that are a bit kitsch that purport to be written by people regretting things they didn't do and now can't.  One I had forwarded to me a few months back talked about using the best china whilst you could (and of course if you don't it decays in the cupboard anyway) or driving with the windows down on sunny days or eating ice-cream in the park in winter  and so on. It was a tad mawkish but its sentiment rang true - we all (I think) put on hold the frivolous and the indulgent in favour of the practical and purposeful.

So, today I bought a red duffle coat.  For years I've looked at them and then settled for something in a nice sensible shade that would be suitable for work or for formal occasions and didn't, when it got a bit worn, make me look like some long lost relative of Paddington bear.

I am fortunate to be able to wear strong colours and along with 'peacock' shades of blue and green, I love red.  So this winter I shall wear my red duffle coat (with its nice warm hood to protect my head from draughts) and the next, and the next and the next and so on, until even Paddington would give me a hard stare... by which time I will have left far behind me the turn of events that prompted me to abandon my usual practical modus operandum and choose it in the first place.

What's your frivolous indulgence?  And why haven't you indulged it? (RNR as we used to put on correspondence on my industry days)