What are you as much as this weekend? We’re having folks over tonight for pizza and inexperienced salad, and on Sunday we’re going to our good friend’s child’s baptism. (What would you counsel bringing as a present?) Hope you’ve gotten a great one, and listed here are just a few enjoyable hyperlinks from across the net…

Who desires to hang around at this fisherman’s cottage in Scotland???

My spring important for bike rides, night walks, and lounging at picnics.

Banana chocolate-chip cake.

Have you ever seen the teaser for Dolly Alderton’s new Satisfaction & Prejudice? Digging the soundtrack of birds chirping.

We desperately want a brand new lounge rug. (Our present one has been destroyed by youngsters.) I’m pondering of Ruggable’s washable ones — which do you want most, blue or plush?

I wasn’t planning to observe Love Story — the Hulu collection about John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette — however individuals are raving. Have you ever been watching?

Additionally, two kinds with Carolyn vibes: traditional watch and very cool headband (or this one).

For those who’d like a great tune for the weekend, right here’s an excellent cowl of The Postal Service’s “Such Nice Heights.”

How cool are these industrial illustrations from the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s?

This headline made me chortle out loud.

Plus, 4 reader feedback:

Says Jasmine on what cheap issues make your life simpler in winter: “I’ve a trick to extend coziness: I maintain my hairdryer near my mattress, then flip it on and blast it into the covers rights earlier than I climb in. So toasty!”

Says Sarah on how was your weekend: “My mother as soon as acquired a fortune cookie that threatened, ‘LOCK YOUR DOORS TONIGHT.’ How f-ed up is that?!?!?!”

Says Deb on this new cookbook is bananas: “Years in the past, I heard a couple of household whose mom instantly was admitted to hospital. The caretaker determined to only prepare dinner all essentially the most stained pages within the mom’s cookbooks, and the children had been content material.”

Says Colleen: “My father died virtually 27 years in the past, one week after his sixtieth birthday. When my husband traveled all the way down to Florida to see him for the final time — my dad was in hospice care — my father might barely communicate however he checked out him and stated, ‘Please maintain my child.’ It killed me. It nonetheless kills. It can perpetually kill me. However he meant it. I used to be married, I lived in Alaska, I had supported myself for years however nonetheless, till the tip, I used to be his child.”

(Photograph of JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.)