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A gorgeous start to March, in the park. 💜 #flowers #nature #spring

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The Orchid Festival at Kew Gardens. #flowers #orchids

The 2026 festival takes inspiration from China’s remarkable biodiversity, heritage and design traditions, filling our Princess of Wales glasshouse with a dazzling array of orchids and large-scale floral installations.

The Poetry Apothecary, Oxford Street. It’s a permanent, unique literary cafe and shop offering "prescriptions" for emotional ailments, featuring books, poetry pills, and a small cafe 😊☕️📚 #books #reading #bookshop #bookstore #booksofbluesky

About Marchpane bookshop: Located in the centre of Cecil Court, the quiet pedestrian lane lined with antiquarian bookshops (tucked away in London's bustling West End), Marchpane opened in August 1989 and is the premier specialist in collectable children's and illustrated books in London. We have books from the eighteenth century to the present day; and one of the largest selections of books by and about Lewis Carroll with many hundreds of different illustrated and translated versions of Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass on our shelves. Marchpane is proud to be a key member of Cecil Court's community. We welcome visitors in person and we keep regular shop hours so no appointment necessary. On our shelves you will find early publications from Newbery's moral tales to signed first editions of Harry Potter. We stock all the best British collectable children’s books and nearly always have first or early editions of great classics such as: Winnie-the-Pooh, Peter Pan, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio, Nursery Rhymes, in addition to beautifully illustrated editions of Andersen, Grimm and Perrault etc. We also stock some of the rarest Home Front and political children’s books of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Saturday sauntering. Marchpane bookshop (children’s books) , 16 Cecil Ct, Charing Cross Rd, London. And my favourite bear, Paddington ❤️

15°, warm sunshine and a gentle breeze today. Spring bulbs, the first black hawthorn, pussywillow and an abundance of plum blossom. Today is magnificent!

Florence and the machine. Last night.

Florence and the Machine last night 🔮🤍

Florence! Last night.

Florence and the Machine last night 🔮

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Fab, aren’t they!

Just neatening up my book stack like a Canadian 🥌👆😎

Bookshop love 🥰
#books #london #bookshop

The reading nook from the previous post 😃 #books #reading #bookshop

Reading nooks on a grey London day 📚🥰 #books #bookshop #reading

February reading so far. This ‘finished’ stack is very eclectic. That’s my challenge this year … to read across many genres and also books I’ve been lent that others raved about.
This months faves are ‘The Frozen River’, ‘Small things like these’, All the colours of the Dark’. #books #reading

Some ‘up-above-the-clouds’ peace if you need it ✈️
#travel #fly

I hope you had a great time wherever you went!

Happy Flyday! Somewhere over Europe watching the sun rise ❤️
#fly #travel #nature #sky

Cotswolds, England, UK

❤️💚 The sky tonight ❤️💚
#aurora #skyatnight

Pretty aurora tonight ❤️💚
#aurora #sky

Christmas at Kew Gardens
#london #christmas #allthelights #funnightsout

If you’re in London over the festive season, pop into Fortum and Masons - it’s well worth it. The window displays are magical again this year. I’ll post a few photos from there today #christmas #christmaslights #london

Fortums this year is once again, magical! #london #christmaslights

If you loved espionage, secret maps and letters that were used during missions and wars. You must visit the ‘Secret Maps’ exhibition at the British Library. Totally absorbing and fascinating!
#london #exhibition #britishlibrary

Thank you x

3 teasels, laced with frost stand in a frozen landscape. The upper half of the picture show bare branches and a foggy background.

Beneath a shroud of fog, the world holds its breath, as autumn’s last whispers meet the quiet touch of winter. Teasels stand, laced with frost, like fragile sculptures frozen in time. Even in the fading warmth of autumn, the chill of winter is already writing its story
#nature #wintry #frosty

Happy Thanksgiving!