And with a belated gift from my little niece! Yes, the delightful germ-monger has presented Rob and myself with colds. His struck yesterday and mine began kicking in this morning. We’re fortifying ourselves with Chinese food and heading for bed early.

We are all packed and will be on the way in about half an hour. I’ll drop you a line when we get back to the apartment.

While I’m in transit, why don’t you tell me what your top three favorite gifts were this year.

I’ll start:

1. Soup spoons in our silver pattern
2. A Ryobi cordless trim saw
3. Victorian pantaloons

I hope your Christmas was as merry as ours.

Click through, and if you don’t just faint from sheer longing to be in one of these libraries then you clearly aren’t a reader. Or you are already in one and jealous-making.