Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Ramsgate Watercolour painting started and a bit of a ramble

This is from Ship Shape Cafe over breakfast, coffee with toast and marmalade
start painting a yellow door and it opens
I have been very busy in my bookshop during the last couple of days.

Here is the link to the fiction books that went away today http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/fiction-in-bookshop.html

And the books that went out on the shelves yesterday http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/paperback-potters-in-bookshop.html

I’m not quite sure if this sort of thing falls in to bracket of advertising or arts, always a bit of a grey area bookshops, a library or art gallery would probably attract public funding, while bookshops tend to get taxed in the same way as betting shops and takeaways. 

 Does, for instance saying you have just put out a lot of Thomas Hardy locally fall into the same bracket as a local art gallery saying they have just put a constable on display?

 Having written a leaflet about when the Thanet bookshops are open with a bit of Margate history for the tourist information office there, I am now doing one for Canterbury. to be honest I was surprised how popular the Margate one has been. 
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