One penguin item re-discovered this year was this old, self-made bookmark. My late mother used to be an avid reader (in multiple languages) and she made her own bookmarks. She took the sturdy supporting back cardboards from office notebooks, cut them into strips and added photos from old magazines. Usually these way cute animals – and naturally a penguin snuck in there.

I don't know from where the photo is from, but the bird is clearly going through its catastrophic moult.

I'm not as big a reader as my Mom was. I do read – and when I do, I read a lot – but it comes and goes in spurts. Whenever the next 'obsessive reading spurt' comes along, I know which bookmark I'll use.