Try ordering a copy of Earth Platinum from your local bookshop and they’ll get quite the surprise. There were only 31 printed and the price tag is $100,000 USD. It would also take quite the delivery truck at 1.8 metres tall and weighing 150 kilograms. I viewed this copy ten years ago …

Happy National Day to Switzerland (1 August). The Swiss landscape inspired Michael Sibley, a modern British artist, whose oil painting of the snow falling on the village …