I spent the day in Nottingham recently and wandered up to the Castle. I was delighted to find this magnificent Robin Hood in the grounds. He's made of a wire frame, stuffed with compost and planted with about 3,500 tiny plants. It's the attention to detail I like so much - the three pheasant feathers for his cap, and the spare arrows in his quiver. Rufford Tenants' and Residents' Association, who made this fine piece of vegetable work, are to be congratulated. I'm not sure this kind of British municipal park decoration crosses cultures though; as I took the photo, a party of French visitors were guffawing away behind me.

I've been playing around with printing on non-standard paper today. I picked up an old paperback recently in a charity shop. It's got nicely yellowing pages and the paper is very absorbent, so the colours should come out quite flat and, I hope, look rather old-fashioned. I've put together this image to use for the experiment, and if it works I'm thinking of printing out a lot of them and sticking them up around where I live.

This paperback cover is a gem of 1950’s jacket design, jumping out from a crowded rack in a second-hand bookshop in Islington. The image is a dramatic piece of illustration, hinting at a racy story before the book’s even been opened. When I took if off the rack to have a look I discovered a card inside — Walter Trauffer on the Via Cattedrale in Lugano advertising his music boxes and cuckoo clocks. By the look of it The Case of the Empty Tin’s from the same era, with Walter Trauffer’s offerings used as a book mark on an Italian holiday.

Here are two recent additions to the Museum of Found Objects. The earring was found at 3.04pm outside Masala Zone in Bishops Bridge Road in west London on Saturday 4 June. The toy soldier was found on Friday 8 July at 10.23am in Tufnell Park Road in north London.