take a seat
The Horse Hospital
BFG's desk and chair
There was a bring-and-buy book sale held at The Horse Hospital; I went because I am a proud Bloomsbury resident and that there's a brand new The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture up for auction. Before it started, people were already queueing at the front door: the entry fee was either a book or one pound. The turnout was pretty good, bookworms kept crawling into the first floor, bringing in books to sell (at one quid each) and keep for their own. I circled the fair once and did not find anything I particularly wanted to buy, whilst some people were already piling up books in their hands. But the good thing about this event was that there's constantly new arrivals, one somehow may find a good bargain lying on the chair or on the table. HY was impressed by the range of sex genre. We didn't expect to go home with: Lempriere's Dictionary, On Tour with Renzo Piano, Crap Towns and Gemma Bovery to name a few, and of course, The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture is now claiming a coffee table space in my room.
After hanging around little bookish people, we cycled under the sun to Parliament Hill Fields, Hampstead Heath to see a giant's reading desk and table. The sculpture is rightly called, The Writer.