Back to work today and I put on my anorak and processed
railway books, I am interested in trains, published a book on the Ramsgate
Railways, see http://michaelsbookshop.com/catalogue/ramsgate_all_change.htm
and the following links for some historical pictures of Ramsgate that I used in
the book http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/rac/index.htm
http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/rac/id2.htm
I’ve got about another hundred railway books to process and
no other takers for the job.
Of course other books got possessed, here is the link to the
pictures of the books we put out in the bookshop today http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/a-pier-at-books-on-our-shelves.html
and as you can see I didn’t do that much work today.
This is the view from my workstation, station being the
operative word here. Back in the day when I misspent my youth trains ran on
steam and once I managed to get away to boarding school, I travelled there by
steam train. Breakfast on the train from Ramsgate to London and lunch on the
train from London to Alton. So perhaps I have developed some sort of empathy
with steam trains.
Anyway as the day wore on and I rubbed out old prices,
dusted off the train books, covered the dust jackets with cellophane, looked
them up on Amazon and pencilled prices a bit cheaper than the Amazon ones in
the books, suddenly the shop filled up with a very strong smell of steam
train.
Frankly I thought the toys in my attic had finally come
completely loose and I rather cautiously asked she who must be obeyed if she
could smell steam train, like burning coal and long boiled kettle and yes she
could, not just weird but positively wyrd.
So I guess I haven’t gone off the rails, I am sitting at my
desk with my lollypop, which is very like my workstation – the desk not the
lollypop – typing up this blog post with Flat Eric invigilating, spelling
grammar and content fails, wondering who the frog is – I don’t like to ask in
case I should know.
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