Neuroknitter usually does a lovely 'Wordless Wednesday' post with her beauiful photographs, and others follow suit, but I'm taking the opposite tack here with a collection of wordier bits and pieces which have caught my fancy.
Sarah's post on London libraries makes very interesting reading, even for a country mouse like me, but you locals might be able to go along and try out most of them.
Here's a book which came up on my radar yesterday (another reason to use Twitter), Gardening Women: Their Stories from 1600 to the Present
There's much talk of the new John Lewis ad (have a look there if you haven't seen it), and Rowan Pelling says in today's paper, "... if the UK had a John Lewis party, it would take every female vote and win by a landslide"!
Food, glorious food, and Copenhagen's Noma has been named the finest restaurant in the world. Cloudberries, birch sap, cowslip are on the menu ...it sounds wonderful.
Lastly, my just discovered, delightful television programme of the week is Monty Halls' Great Hebridean Escape which features Monty (and his lovely and completely mad dog Reuben) living on North Uist as a volunteer wildlife ranger. An irrepressible enthusiast, a canine companion and glorious scenery - what more could you want?
