link love

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• the last Tasmanian thylacine (so sad) - how to be a retronaut
• good fiction reads featuring food - gherkins and tomatoes
• Australia Day menu, 1922 - the old foodie
• guide to housecat coat colours chart - moderncat
• 'an eccentrical lady' - this is probably what will happen to me - georgian london
• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - awesome people reading
• 'work mouth' - urban dictionary 
• heraclitus (podcast featuring kenodoxia) - in our time (bbc)
• defrosting your frozen words in summer - laudator temporis acti
• the best bites in Rome - parla food
• lentil spaghetti bolognese - not quite nigella
• hardly one. hardly one - Gertrude Stein's rejection letter - letters of note
• make your own grecian urn - dollar store crafts

squirrel book-plate?

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As The Graphics Fairy notes, 

it'd make a great book-plate.

ngaio marsh's library

This is such a beautiful room.

The library in the Ngaio Marsh House in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The Ngaio Marsh House was fortunate to escape the 

Christchurch earthquakes with minimal obvious damage (report here).

Image: christchurch city libraries flickr via the captive reader

tea time!

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icycat

via kitty stampede via modcatlove via prettyfoods

merry christmas

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sssssnaky

I don't suppose Ssssssanta...

Emilio Pucci 

Embellished brass snake bracelet

net-a-porter $690

found via design*sponge

EDIT: now $345. Still...

book plate

I'm not sure why I like this book-plate. 

It's pretty vile. But graphic & bold.

Via letterology.

pyjamas

Well, I need some new pyjamas...

"For the November 15, 1931, Vogue, George Hoyningen-Huené captured the beauty of flowing bias-cut crêpe pajamas by designer Madeleine Vionnet. The model's Grecian-style pose also emphasizes the Classical quality with which the designer is associated."

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virginia's bedroom

Virginia Woolf's bedroom.

Monk's House, Rodwell (Sussex).

via the persephone post