Amateur Radio QSL card from Riga, USSR.

• BBC News - Russia marks 50 years of Sputnik
• Ward-O-Matic’s Space Alphabet

I’ve just got back from working in Portugal. There wasn’t much time for sightseeing but, where I could, I photographed the tiles (Azulejo) that adorn the exteriors of many buildings. Azulejo was introduced to Portugal, via Spain, by the Moors in the 15th century. This tradition has continued and I was pleased to find modern tiles around the area of Tavira in the Algarve.

• Full set of images in my Portuguese Tiles set on Flickr
• Azulejos de Portugal group photos on Flickr
• The history of Azulejo from Wikipedia

Work by Abram Games fetches high prices these days, so it was nice surprise to find this affordable booklet in a second hand shop over the weekend. Roof Over Britain tells the official story of Britain’s Anti-Aircraft Defences 1939-1942. It was published in 1943 while Corporal Games worked for the Public Relations Department of the War Office. Games is perhaps know best for the Festival of Britain emblem in 1951.

• Abram Games - Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means

Atlas Continental Candle Lamps

Part of Colour Week

Penguin book covers

Part of Colour Week

‘The Junior True Book of Cloth’ first published 1960, reprinted 1969. By Esther Nighbert illustrations by Chauncey Maltman

Part of Colour Week