20 November, 2011 By Sarah Wood

Every Day is Like Sunday: week 47, 2011

A real treat to have time to savour these two books this weekend; real genius in action, am sure I didn’t breathe for the whole of the second half.

> Where #MySundayPhoto journey started

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