My efforts to keep Britain Today actually about today have slipped a little again.  My excuse is a very good one: I have been moving house.  But as I am now happily ensconced in my new abode, it's back again to tracking the national trio of be-suited 40-somethings.  Happy days.

'Cept I'm ignoring them today, since, trawling through the 700-odd posts in my RSS reader brought me Much Funner Stuff. 

First up, Georgian London on pineapples.  Yes, pineapples.  Go.  Read.  Giggle. 

Also in history, Peter Marshall review's She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth.  Apparently we're not supposed to have heard of Eleanor of Aquitaine.  Schama and Ferguson have been dispatched to the nation's rescue on this front, I'm sure. 

Coming in under both the 'history' and 'Tories' categories (hisTories?), there's a new biography of Harold Macmillan out.  (I actually know more about Eleanor of Aquitaine than I do Harold Macmillan.  Should I remedy this?)

And!  National nature writing treasure Richard Mabey has a new book out: Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature.  Guardian reviews by both Andrew Motion and Bella Bathurst make it fairly certain that I will be chuffed if this mysteriously arrives on my new doorstep.