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( Doors Open Day: bus depot and National Library. )

My other weekend activity, as I've already posted, was listing loads of things on ebay. I am now trying to refrain from checking how they're doing every five minutes. Currently they are selling for £30 total, of which about £7 will have to go towards postage, which is still a nice amount of money. And there is a week to go! I am also trying not to spend all that money before I even get it. I won a dress last week that is the same as another dress I've previously bought on ebay, only with a green print instead of a blue one. (felinitykat, it's the Phase Eight one that you also have!) Currently I am trying to decide just how much I want a red Bravissimo dress with sleeves and pockets. Quite a lot, probably.

The new Asterix book is going to be set in Scotland. I am looking forward to it, actually especiall since it's a new writing/drawing team, as the last few written and illustrated by Uderzo weren't all that good.

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I feel that this is a bad idea: book headboard.

1) It is basically a collecting ground for dust, which is exactly what you want above your head while you're sleeping.

2) It's going to get dirty/torn very easily.

3) The first time you sit up in bed you'll bed and fold bits of pages and it'll look rubbish. The project's from a year ago, I bet it looks really tatty now.

4) It just seems like a warning to other books. I bet the ones you read in bed wouldn't like it, having to stare over your shoulder at its comrades, with pages that could once flutter in the breeze nailed flat to a wall.

(Though if you are going to do that I suppose they've done it quite well, unlike other book atrocities which don't even look nice.)

I went to look at their other projects - such organised http://www.designeverydayblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/3.jpg>underwear! It does look quite nice, but I am somehow deeply suspicious of anyone together enough to have so many matching sets for everyday use. A friend of mine does that, she said she just assumed it was what you were supposed to do, and was surprised when someone at a party made reference to someone else being the sort of person whose pants always matched their bra as if that were unusual. Maybe I am just a slattern.