This weekend I bought a new pair of Sennheiser MX70 earphones for my iPod. If you haven't ditched the earbuds that come with the iPod I strongly recommend it; the sound quality of these relatively cheap earphones is amazing. I'm hearing new things in songs I've listened to hundreds of times.

Food and books

Tim and I had dinner last week at Patara, which was lovely, but we were sat next to a large family noisily celebrating someone's birthday and had to shout at each other to be heard above the din.

The new pictures are of Tim and Tim's recent place of employment, Colnaghi. The office includes beautiful shelves of art history books and I'd long wanted to take pictures. Unfortunately, I'm a dunce with my new camera and most came out blurry - with the exception of those you see here. Tim's off to Italy on holiday (I'm green...) then off to work at the Alison Jacques Gallery in the exciting world of modern art. I hope the bookshelves will be as nice...

Friday we had a team breakfast in the Grand Divan room at Simpson's on the Strand. The 19th century room had once been a private gentleman's club (in the cigars and brandy way, not in the lap dance and vd way. It's probably what everyone imagines when they think of Britishness - historical, beautifully crafted and proud of its traditions. But the breakfast was huge and stodgy and whilst the others went back to work, I took the afternoon and slept it off.