One of my jobs as a shop assistant in the bookshop here in
Ramsgate is publishing books about this area. I have all sorts of jobs that
come under the general heading shop assistant that I don’t talk about, like
cleaning any dog poo off the pavement in the morning. There are seven of us
shop assistants working in the bookshop and some of us have specialist tasks
and some tasks we all do, like cashier, we can all use the till although I am
not very good at using the credit card machine but I am allowed to use it
albeit slowly.
I do the publishing and the poo, with the publishing other
people do the hard bits, the scanning, image enhancements, printing,
guillotining, etc but the actual publishing I do. OK I am a bit vague about
what the process of publishing entails – perhaps “sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes I just sits” is as near as I can get.
As well as books I publish maps and I am thinking of
branching off into charts. Now most of these are crown copyright, but HMSO are
very good about expiring the copyrigt and I can do reprints when the following
applies.
1 It is a photograph
created by the United Kingdom Government and taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
2 It was
commercially published prior to 1967; or
3 It is an artistic
work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created
by the United Kingdom Government prior to 1967.
HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights
applies worldwide.
So here is one of our local charts for 1806, you will need
to click on it to expand it and then click on it again to expand it again.
and this
Back in the bookshop, here is the link to the books that
went out on Saturday http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/thud-in-bookshop.html
Back to the chart, depths are measured in fathoms which are
6 feet or two yards
This is for anyone suffering from youth, don't worry about it guys soon you will be old and then a very long time dead.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.