Books and cakes!

    We've been down in the Borders today, paying another visit to the lovely  Mainstreet Trading Company in the village of St. Boswell's.

It's one of the nicest bookshops you'll find anywhere, so do make a beeline for it if you're ever in the area.

    We met friends for a jolly good browse and some buying - Anthony Horowitz's new Sherlock Holmes novel The House of Silk and The MET Office Book of the British Weather came home with us, while one friend discovered Henrietta (I may have influenced that choice ...) and another was scouting out possible reads for a forthcoming long flight.

    And we had lunch: the most excellent, hearty sandwiches followed by superb coffee and a Tunisian citrus cake (similar to this recipe, I think) which was so good we had to exercise considerable restraint not to go back for second helpings.

    Perfick!