As a shop assistant my lunch is an economic
and short business, an hour and that’s it.
The business with checking history book
prices against the internet has been interesting, I have just finished British
history where prices for the books covering the period after 1485 and the beginning
of the Tudor period have slumped considerably and am now doing the history of
other countries. Books covering the ancient Greeks and Romans, for the most
part are much more expensive online than they are in my shop already, so not so
many reductions here.
I digress, back to the economy lunch, a
beef salad baguette from Rooks £1.99 which I ate walking down to Ramsgate Sands
where I bought a mug of tea for 60p and enjoyed the view.
A couple of observations on the way around.
The Royal Sands Cliff façade is looking
pretty bad in places at the moment, water seems to be getting behind parts of
it in the way it shouldn’t be.
The arcade machines are appearing in Ramsgate Boulevard,
but they have a very 1980s look to them, possibly this is to be a retro arcade
although I would have expected something more 60s if this was the case. More likely
though I think these are the machines from the arcade in Margate, recently the subject of the Dreamland cpo.
As the day progresses and the madness of
looking up too many books on the internet, one comes across unusual listings;
see the following as an example.
Bookseller Image
What wood is that? A manual of wood identification
Herbert L
Edlin
Bookseller: Andy Hussey
(IPSWICH, SFK, United Kingdom)
Quantity Available: 1
Price: £ 12.50
Shipping: £ 2.50
Within United Kingdom
Have you considered becoming part of the www.hive.co.uk network of book sellers?
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