Ran­dom notion of the week, and some­thing I’ve spent most of the week fight­ing against, is the urge to take up embroid­ery. For a start, I don’t like embroid­ery, and I really don’t want to spend any time dec­or­at­ing table­cloths with pic­tures of little blonde girls pick­ing tulips. Then I spent a night sew­ing bind­ing onto my tiny quilt, some­thing that was strangely enjoy­able. And then last week I found this blog, fea­tur­ing this and this and this, and for the first time in my life real­ised that my life wouldn’t be com­plete without an embroid­ery hoop and a huge array of bright, multi-coloured threads.

One trip to John Lewis later, and I’m the proud owner of a hoop. And abso­lutely noth­ing else.

Ahem.

How­ever, the true high­light of the day was a quick visit to Paper­chase, just as they were clos­ing for the night. I only man­aged a quick whizz round, but DO YOU SEE WHAT THIS IS?:

Food friends! Back in stock! How could you not act­ively fall in love with the little orange guy on the keyring loop?