I am in London this week and so thought I would follow up on a conversation I had with my girlfriends at the weekend. We were discussing the new tv series on PBS television called Mr Selfridge. The series chronicles the life of Harry Gordon Selfridge from his childhood in America to his founding of Selfridge's in 1909.I have not seen any of the tv series yet but I did buy the book Shopping, Seduction and Mr Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead and am thoroughly enjoying reading about his beginnings at Marshal Fields in Chicago to his then revolutionary ideas of how a department store should be run.
I usually visit Selfridge's on my visits to London as it has a Nespresso store in the basement and I like to stock up on new pods to take back to Houston. Yesterdays beautiful sunny weather certainly brought out the crowds on Oxford Street but Charlotte managed to snap this shot before we went into the store to explore. Perhaps the coffee tasting added to my sleeping problems ......
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