… when I scrolled down this post (I had been thinking about those beautiful hanging baskets… and wishing I could go to New York, in part because I’d heard from an old friend who lives there this week, and had been reading Sarah Laing’s brilliant comic …

… was totally fun. It was a while ago now, but I wrote some notes about being there: “In a departure lounge, newspapers take on a special pre-internet significance, as though this is the last word of home you’re going to get for a long …