W is for Wunderful
Week W | Thursday | Glimmer Time beats Hammer Time ✨
By the way, I know we just had Week W a few weeks ago. But I have loads of W things and few Z ones, so it’s replacing that, if you’re keeping track.
It’s been years but I still can’t get enough of Miyoko Ihara’s photographs of her grandmother Misao the Big Mama and Fukumaru the Cat.
I’m going to this free webinar on ‘solitary bees’ on 2 July, hosted by the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association, are you? 🐝
Proud to have been included on this list. It’s nearly a year old but I’ve only just come across it.
Runestone found near Resmo Church, Kalmar, Sweden. It was carved sometime between 400–1100 CE and is now in the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm.
La Fermette Marbeuf was a gourmet restaurant in the Langham Hotel, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Its Belle Époque Art Nouveau 1900 Room became a Historical Monument in 1983. Lost and found a number of times, it now hosts the restaurant Beefbar, to which I believe I must make a pilgrimage.
A cat stepped on a newly-made medieval floor tile sometime in the 12th century. St Peter's Church, Warwickshire, England.
An arrangement of things found on beaches, by the Lego Lost At Sea project.
The Meditating Frog, by Sengai Gibon (1750-1837), a Japanese monk of the Edo period.
Beyoncé has just finished a six-night residency in London and I’ve got the worst FOMO ever about missing it. Surely the greatest and most talented entertainer of all time. Her creativity and graciousness know no bounds. Am a trifle obsessed.
The artist Jackie Curtis came across her old watercolours tin, a work of art in itself.
Whereas I’ve finally stopped ‘curating’ my phone apps. Happy with them now, they give me sweet shop vibes and joy. Hope the battery life doesn’t give you anxiety; this is supposed to be glimmers, not triggers.
I so recommend these ‘wunder’ books, even for adults – the fourth has just come out. Magical, escapist, witty, and not written by a transphobe. Have crush on Jupiter North.