The (young) reader's corner

I blogged before about Catherine's Café in Wallingford. We rediscovered it recently and found new reasons to love it. Well, Wolfie did. He visited the place with his mummy and his grandparents, then with his mum and myself for my birthday. It turns out the café has a children friendly room, with a safety gate that prevent toddlers such as him to leave it unsupervised and with bookcases. Two bookcases: one with adult books, one with children books. Wolfie loves taking said book off the shelves (one of his favourite activities at home too) and just checking them. Of all the little pleasures life can give, there is one I particularly enjoy: reading in a café and going through the books available to the customers. I am so happy my son seems to be enjoying this already.

Catherine's Café in Wallingford

It is the weekend, a lovely sunny Saturday, maybe not quite the cold day you would need to fully appreciate afternoon tea and cakes, then again unless it's a heatwave you can't go wrong with tea and cakes on a lovely Saturday. As it is a weekend tradition on this blog, I am plugging today a place to enjoy food and drink. This time, it is Catherine's Café in Wallingford, the quintessential English town. It is called a café, but it is just as much a tea room. It serves honest, home make cakes and it is warm and friendly. One of the cakes was a bit dry, but then we went there near closing time, and anyway it was a lovely experience. There is something about small cafés in the corner of a street. If you know about feng shui, tell me what your hypothesis is. In any case, this is a pretty little independent café in a world that has too little of them.