Living: Flower trug. Split wood replaced by

ply after WWII, hence the name Modern Trugs.

(Sorry, not modern enough to have a website).

Found at Cottesbrooke by News From Nowhere.

Living: Sneeboer, tools forged

by hand since Granddad Sneeboer

founded the company in Holland, 1913.

Photographed at the Cottesbrooke Plant

Finders Fair by News From Nowhere.

Unearthed: The long tapered perennial spade,

once as common as muck. Available at Sneeboer,

Holland. Photograph by News From Nowhere.

Living: Pocket squares

at Ede & Ravenscroft,

founded 1689.

Living: All quiet on the West Country front,

further dispatches from Glastonbury today.

Living: Mud surfing, origins unknown.

From our reporter at Glastonbury.

Never endangered: The mud at Glastonbury.

Photograph taken today by Reed Wilson.

Living: The season's new look,

Cornwall, Connecticut, Summer 2011.

via Shorpy.

Gypsy at her typewriter

Carson at her piano

Extinct: 7 Middagh Street. Home of George Davis,

fiction editor of Harper's Bazaar and occupied by

W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Gypsy Rose Lee

and others. Demolished in 1945 to make way for

the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

Living: Summer Solstice.

"Real needfire—from which Midsummer fires

should be lit—can only be made by rubbing

two pieces of wood together; but when first we

planned the rites, Rose and I spent an hour at this

without raising so much as a spark. So we decided

it would be pagan enough if we took the matches

to the tower and lit a taper."

—I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, 1949

Living: Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy,

1970-71, by David Hockney.

Living: English oak towel roller and

red striped towels at Ancient Industries.

Living: The wooden door stop.

A piece of wood that stops doors.

Available at Ancient Industries.

Living: The Sheila Maid clothes airer,

made of pine, rope, iron, and brass

now available at Ancient Industries.

RIP: Hedda Sterne, 1910-2011.

Photograph by George Platt Lynes, 1944.

RIP: Paddy Leigh Fermor, 1915-2011.

Book cover by John Craxton.

Current editions at NYRB Books.

Living: The Gomberg Seltzer Works,

delivering to your borough since 1953.

Photo by Jessica Edwards/Seltzer Works.

English athletes

Brown by name, brown by nature

Replacing Gills Sans with Cooper Black

Living: Old Town, Bull Street, Holt, Norfolk.

Made on the premises and within the county.

Photographs by Jim Powell.

Living: The beach hut. Born of the modesty-preserving

bathing machine, the hut continues to serve as shelter

from the elements in Northern European countries.

Photographs of Wells-next-the Sea, Norfolk,

by News From Nowhere.

This week News From Nowhere brings us

News from Norfolk:

"The secret of the unspoilt North Norfolk coast is

a) The Earl of Leicester owns a lot of it

b) It is almost permanently windy."

Resurrected: Walk, Don't Walk signs,

never used, now available at Trainspotters.

Blooming: Elderflower, now in season

(end of May to early June).

Guys and Dolls

My fair Lady

Truman at 70 Willow

Living: 70 Willow Street. Home of Oliver Smith,

set designer during the golden age of musicals, who

rented the ground floor apartment to Truman Capote.

Baking: How to make a Cornish Pasty*, at Port Eliot.

*An early form of packed lunch, popularized by tin

miners in Cornwall during the seventeenth century.