You may know by now that I do love a good Souvenir! So when I found this rather lovely collection of vintage souvenir spoons at a car boot sale last weekend I simply couldn’t resist.

These are only a selection, I have about 40 or 50, and once I polish them up a bit (they are silver plated you know!!) I’ll put them onto the site for you to buy if you wish to do so…and let’s be honest, who wouldn’t!!!

I love the colours of these rusty barrels I photographed in Italy recently.

A friendly Black Forest Hydrant.

Rain + Wind + Cheap Umbrellas is NEVER a good combination as London resembled one giant Umbrella Graveyard last weekend.

I have to admit, every time I see some scaffolding I’m amazed it doesn’t fall down. Not a chance for this to happen with this Super Scaffolding I saw in Budapest recently.

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I saw this amazing set of mosaics on a 1970′s East German office block in Potsdam recently. It’s called ‘Man conquers Space’ (Der Mensch bezwingt den Kosmos)  by artist Fritz Eisel. You really can’t get much more Socialist than that.

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Damn, just when BBQ season is over I discover the Beer Butt Chicken:

I will definitely put that on the list of things to BBQ next year. Just imagine two or three of those at the same time ‘having a chat’ on the BBQ. Brilliant. Oh, and here is another recipe, but in German/Bavarian: A Bier-Hintern-Hendl.

It’s 11.00pm on a saturday night. Kilburn High Road Overground Station. I’m slighty concerned that all the hanging baskest are somewhat equal. Once I noticed the ensemble of Poinsettia, Ivy, Fern and another unidetifiable plant all together in full bloom on a early June evening, I wondered. Can these be real?? Of course not!!

The country that gave us some of the most beautiful Country Gardens has been reduced to plastic flower hanging baskets. It’s a sad sad situation.

I think I might be a little bit addicted to jam.

But I’m quite fussy about which jam, none of that jellified blob you get in cheap supermarkets. It’s got to be some decent stuff, and you can NEVER go wrong with Bonne Maman jams. Unfortunately the selection I have in my local supermarket is somewhat limited (Strawberry & Raspberry) so it is now an essential part of my twice annual visit to Paris that I have to check out the supermarket there and stock up on Bonne Maman jams. My current favourite is Rhubarbe, and last time I brought six jars back.