News from Nowhere

It was pure serendipity that our outing last week was so date-appropriate: we had promised ourselves that rather than compete with crowds profiting from the fair weather and the Bank Holiday, we would take a day off on the first working day; then, when we considered what we might do, I remembered an exhibition I wanted to see at The Word. We has, in any case, been curious about the grandly titled National Centre for the Written Word, which replaced the old South Shields public library:



( Adventures on both sides of the Tyne )