Five things - but which one was published yesterday?

[shewhomust]

• Kobi Levi designs shoes as wearable sculpture: elephants! swans! banana slippers! (via the fabulous Gail-Nina)


• Martin Simpson tweets: "Edinboro' Zoo was splendid. The Pandas slept in separate beds. The Gelada baboons neither slept nor used beds. Thus many baboons no Pandas."


• Hull Museum has a collection of Billy and Charleys.


• One for gillpolack: Unicorn Cookbook Found at the British Library (via Making Light, who are not entirely impressed)


• Spitalfields Life, the blog: "In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London..." and persuaded the neighbours to tell me about their lives

Comments

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Those shoes are glorious.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Aren't they just!

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Thank you :). Making Light forgot Taillevent, about whom we do know that much (sort of).

I was trying to work out what Billy and Charleys were, after your comment the other day. That is a terrible thing for a burglar to steal. I've wanted some for *years* (I knew them, not their nickname).

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

My father was in the antique trade, and when he came across one, he gave it to me - I had three in the end, of which one was large and polished to destruction. I loved them dearly, and mourn them still.

Which informs my sympathy for your burglary...

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

It means you totally get it - and I totally get those missing three pieces. I do not understand burglars.