The reason we’re discussing Mousehole (did you pronounce it correctly? It’s hard, I know), is that in September Bob and I will be walking the Cornish Coastal Path through this little hamlet on our way from Penzance to… hmmm…this is still to be decided. We’d planned to visit Mousehole during our 2012 trip to Cornwall but just plumb ran out of time. Easy to happen in England.

In 1933 and 1934, my gran collected and saved a boxful of embroidered silk flower cards issued by Kensitas. Each cigarette pack that she purchased contained a small card that opened up to reveal gorgeous woven silk flowers. 

The photo to the left shows one of the cards cut in two (I didn't do it!) The cards actually look like those at the bottom of this post: little booklets that open up to reveal the flower on the right and a lovely poetic description on the left. 

These were the last silk cigarette card flowers that came in an outer protective folder, so I feel very lucky to have them. My gran collected them and gave them to my mother, who saved them and gave them to me, who framed them and hung them next to my desk. 

This little booklet holds and displays the flowers. Isn't it cute?

In 1924 Great Britain held a contest to design a new telephone kiosk. Giles Gilbert Scott’s red telephone box design won. The bright red British icon started appearing on London streets in 1926. The box was known as K2, (Kiosk 2), a clever name indeed, as it was the country’s second phone kiosk. From then on, the first phone box was called K1. The British are nothing if not sensible about product names.

Here's your chance! 

The midnight blue velvet dress that Princess Diana wore when she danced with John Travolta at the White House will be auctioned on March 19. It's expected to bring in up to £300,000 pounds. 

It's sad. The whole Diana thing is sad. Still.