Knausgaard has the most anonymous signature of any writer I own a book signed by. I paid £1.50 for it second hand, but if I'd bought it new, I reckon I'd think blimey, I could have done that myself. A memorable first book of an outstanding sequence, though.

St Mungo, and 'Here's the Tree that never grew, here's the Bird that never flew, here's the Fish that never swam, here's the Bell that never rang'. Let Glasgow Flourish, the Glasgow Coat of Arms on a bench back in Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow.

A week tomorrow I'll be in Stoke-on-Trent. Of all the cities I've wandered in this year, (indeed, of all large British cities), this is the one I know least about. Obviously, Pevsner Guides is full of ideas, but I'd be grateful for suggestions from anyone who knows the place (and

3/3 Lady Anne Bacon, who died in 1616. Her memorial is by Nicholas Stone, and she shares it with her husband. Other memorials include figure brasses, one of which Mortlock thought 'the best post-Reformation brass in England'. More: suffolkchurches.co.uk/redgrave.htm #SuffolkSeptember30

A new mural going up on the James Herhir Building on Ipswich Waterfront. What will it be?

What a disgraceful article. The BBC should be ashamed.

The Virgo Lactans, an image of the Blessed Virgin breastfeeding the Christ Child. A roundel of fragmentary 15th Century glass in St Nicholas's Anglican Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, photographed back in July. It's the only surviving medieval glass in the church.