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Pick your shade. - S. Thanthoni

Your happy correspondent and better half had a short holiday in Coonoor, which is, if you didn't know already, a bit of heaven on earth. It's a village in that you will be out of town if you walk along any road for half an hour; but it's urban enough that you can get a pizza, smoked cheese, or single malt.

If you were to walk along the perimeter of Sim's Park along the Coonoor-Kotagiri road, you see so many shades of green you think someone went crazy with the HSL/RGB/CMYK sliders in Photoshop (or your preferred image editing program). But the macho estate guys there know which green is what, and what to do about them. And our acquaintance from an earlier instalment is back again: Alice Wang, with Parktone (http://www.alicewang. com/parktone.html).

A grass scanner takes readings from three random patches and gives a "Pantone" shade (used by designers to give particular instructions to the printer and allows printers to consistently reproduce the colour) that can be used to compare with Parktone, a shade card that contains the true green colours from various Royal parks and other green spaces in the UK.

And when one goes to Coonoor, even the most hardened of coffee drinkers will want to try a cuppa tea; and when the little old ladies go "strong or mild?" don't be afraid to say strong, because it's still not strong enough compared to a best-practices-degree-coffee.

The way these people fuss over a cup of almost insipid liquid, they could do well with Onkar Singh Kular's Pantone tea mugs, in 128 shades of "tea" - beige to brown - and ask you to choose your preferred strength.

N. NAGARAJ

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