Guest bench...

Taken in the snow last month by Sam Mitchell (one of my daughter's friends as she apparently spent some time being 'Rachael's Mum' and looking at benches)

Take a break on the 'book bench'...

aka the well-named book blog from the New Yorker.

Looking forward ...

The past and the future meeting in two different ways - benches at the University of Kent at Canterbury (where I teach creative writing).