Oooo. We’re so flattered at My Friend’s House to have been blogged about, on super stylish site The Women’s Room. While checking ourselves out over there, we also found they’re a rich source of shop-related posts, covering books and shops we’d never heard of.

Look at this gorgeous picture, from Shutting Up Shop, a book on the kind of quirky stores that are on the brink of extinction. Plus these pictures of Elke Crowther, and her shop Memories of Mortlake (still going), to introduce a lament for the commercialization of charity and junk shops. Amen.