I do love the part of my job where I get to disappear in among the stacks, steal noiselessly between the shelves and emerge, triumphantly, clutching whichever book the customer’s asked for.
The downside, of course (or perhaps it’s an upside) is that in the quest for one book for someone else, I inevitably spot at least four I’d like to read myself, and add them to the ever-growing list of Books I Must Read One Day.
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Sunday, 10 October 2010
wow, a book-related post at last
"Inspired by reading “The Red Leather Diary” by Lily Koppel, for my 25th birthday in February I’m going to order myself a five year diary, with just a few lines for each day, and try to faithfully keep a record of my life between 25 and 30.
I'm also rather liking this idea:
http://www.ohsocherished.co.uk/product/1161/0/100_year_diary
of a 100 year diary, to fill with letters, notes and photos, and details of your life over an entire lifetime.
I'm also rather liking this idea:
http://www.ohsocherished.co.uk/product/1161/0/100_year_diary
of a 100 year diary, to fill with letters, notes and photos, and details of your life over an entire lifetime.
Friday, 8 October 2010
severed heads
Sigh... I've already been asked about the history of beheadings in the Tower of London and it's not even 9 o' clock yet...
Saturday, 18 September 2010
quote of the day
From a man asking about electoral registers in the north of the country, after a good ten minutes of irrelevant chatter:
“y’see, m’wife’s run off and she owes me a bit of money, and I might have to go up there and do some spying, y’know?”"
“y’see, m’wife’s run off and she owes me a bit of money, and I might have to go up there and do some spying, y’know?”"
another selection of madness
"Minette Walters books (crime)
Diane Chamberlain books (modern, all out on loan)
Lady giving her card back because they’re leaving Chelmsford today and won’t need them any more
Printing, printing and more printing
Protective book jackets
Street map of Kelvedon
Henry Moore (artist) books, information etc on drawings and sculptures
Antiques"
Diane Chamberlain books (modern, all out on loan)
Lady giving her card back because they’re leaving Chelmsford today and won’t need them any more
Printing, printing and more printing
Protective book jackets
Street map of Kelvedon
Henry Moore (artist) books, information etc on drawings and sculptures
Antiques"
Friday, 17 September 2010
musical
one of our regulars is, for reasons best known to herself, playing the clarinet in the high street.
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
random things from today's hours on the desk
A Christmas Carol
Scanner x 2
Dead printing again
Bar Mitzvahs
Barley (as in the food)
Titanic
Magnets (this and the 3 above all asked for by unaccompanied adults… doing their children’s homework for them, I suspect)
Photocopying & faxing across to Colchester entries from the Gold & Silversmiths Directories
Knights of Malta (but not historical fiction, only factual)
Domestic violence for a school project
Lost keys
Information about using computers, Ancestry, etc
Managed to do the exciting messages (650s and 745s)
Tripped over some books in the illustration section I’d quite like to read one day in the distant future when I have time to breathe
Scanner x 2
Dead printing again
Bar Mitzvahs
Barley (as in the food)
Titanic
Magnets (this and the 3 above all asked for by unaccompanied adults… doing their children’s homework for them, I suspect)
Photocopying & faxing across to Colchester entries from the Gold & Silversmiths Directories
Knights of Malta (but not historical fiction, only factual)
Domestic violence for a school project
Lost keys
Information about using computers, Ancestry, etc
Managed to do the exciting messages (650s and 745s)
Tripped over some books in the illustration section I’d quite like to read one day in the distant future when I have time to breathe
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