The baubles have gone on.

Original vintage, a family heirloom!

Handmade B a present from San Franciso

The birds

Nutcracker soldier

My black angels from Africa

We have reopened communications with The Belle Mere and Erbie has named her ‘Grandpa’.

Look out we’ve got a reader here.

Having recently had the opportunity to read again by having a few days work, which involved travelling on public transport - alone, ye gads, I was intrigued to hear about World Book Night on March 5th, 2011. A million books are to be be given away. To sign up, go to the link worldbooknight.org and chose from one of 25 titles. If you are chosen, after selecting a title you would like to give away with your reasons, you will be given 40 copies to pass on.

The list is here:

Half of a Yellow Sun	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Harper Perennial
Case Histories	Kate Atkinson	Black Swan
The Blind Assassin	Margaret Atwood	Virago
A Life Like Other People’s	Alan Bennett	Profile
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	John le Carré	Penguin
Killing Floor	Lee Child	Bantam
The World’s Wife	Carol Ann Duffy	Picador
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon	Vintage
New Selected Poems	Seamus Heaney	Faber
Rachel’s Holiday	Marian Keyes	Penguin
The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Mohsin Hahmed	Penguin
Agent Zigzag	Ben Macintyre	Bloomsbury
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel García Márquez	Penguin
Life of Pi	Yann Martel	Canongate
Stuart	Alexander Masters	Fourth Estate
A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry	Faber
Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	Sceptre
Beloved	Toni Morrison	Vintage
One Day	David Nicholls	Hodder
Northern Lights	Philip Pullman	Scholastic
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	Vintage
Dissolution	C.J. Sansom	Pan
Toast	Nigel Slater	Fourth Estate
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Muriel Spark	Penguin
Fingersmith	Sarah Waters	Virago