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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Just a photo


Flower
Originally uploaded by sarabak

I still feel cheered by this photo I took with my phone a few weeks ago. First the flower fluttered down from a windowbox, outside a Tottenham Court Road pub. Passers-by didn't seem to see it, yet they never stepped on it either. (Well, eventually somebody did.) Meanwhile, these two people came and stood by it for ages, talking.

Monday, March 14, 2011

The NBCC awards


Sarah Bakewell How to Live 2011 Shankbone
Originally uploaded by david_shankbone

I like this picture by David Shankbone - it's of me clutching the podium so as not to collapse to the floor, two minutes after learning that I'd won the National Book Critics' Circle Biography Award last Thursday!