A bit rushed towards the end I’m afraid as everywhere was
closing, my bookshop had been very busy on both Friday and Saturday and I have
to put my hands up to skiving off for a sketch when things quietened down at
around four.
I put the increased activity in the bookshop down
mostly to there being very few non food and clothing related shops left, which
are both big enough to lose yourself in and where if you do find something to
buy it is likely to be cheaper than you could get the same thing online.
Nowadays the majority of my customers who spend
over a tenner use their smart phones to check the prices online before they
buy, on most networks the phone signal in the shop is fairly good, however I have
now added wifi to the shop. So if you are trying to check a book price and you
can’t get a phone signal please ask for the code.
During the last week several people have asked me if they can
buy my sketches, at the moment the answer is, if you like it print it out and
bung it on the wall, for non commercial purposes I won’t claim any copyright.
Over the next few weeks, I will endeavour to print some as greeting cards.
I don’t think this has so much to do with my artistic
ability as it has with to do with my often painting from cafés where people are
familiar with the view.
There is a local survey here https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6RBSFKJ
about local politics that may interest readers.
Back to the books, I have just heard that one of
the local schools, has thrown out loads of books, I won’t name and shame here.
But please be aware if you raid the skip, that they are rubber stamped with the
schools name and don’t have their cancellation stamp on them, so to all intents
and purposes they say swag on them.
I should point out that we never buy library books unless
the have official cancellation stamps on them, or if the prelims have been
removed or there are other signs that school or public library marks have been
removed.
This doesn’t apply to the great and famous library sales
like Brooklyn Public Library, which we would know about anyway, as would any
serious collector.
Interesting edition this as the illustration are on “India
Proofs” the only copy I have ever seen.
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