Friday's Loves & Links for you all
Things to cheer you up, buy, watch, visit and keep you entertained this weekend - including the perfect summer T-shirt
I’m visiting: Despite having lived in London for most of my life, I still have a huge list of landmarks I’m yet to visit. Among them is the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir temple in Neasden and the Garden Muesum beside Lambeth Palace. Well the latter is now in my diary, as I’m heading there with my sister to see the exhibition Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors, (until 29th September). It’s about the green spaces of four women central to the movement - Virginia Woolf and her garden at Monk’s House; her sister artist Vanessa Bell, whose garden and studio was at nearby Charleston; arts patron and photographer Lady Ottoline Morrell, who presided over Garsington Manor; and garden designer and writer Vita Sackville-West and the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle. Photographs, paintings, textiles, garden tools, manuscripts, and correspondence – many of which have never been on public view – will tell the interweaving stories of these women, their creative lives, their friends and their gardens. Of course visiting all the gardens is on my list too - so far I’ve ticked off Charleston and Sissinghurst. Both left me feeling calmed and charmed and in even more wonder at how people create such beautiful nurturing spaces, especially as I can barely manage to keep the slugs and snails at bay in my postage stamp space.