My day off/out whatever it was, started with, I'm moving and I can't take all my books with me near Deal, so we went off and bought some photography books (whole books on the work of one photographer - which is pretty much the only photography books we buy, the how to ones just don't sell anymore) and some reasonable modernish literary fiction paperbacks (the bread and butter of the general secondhand bookshop is to be able to come up with cheap quality fiction for people to read)
We went on into Deal and bought some more books, the main focus of attention being the Oxfam Bookshop there. I'm much more interested in having the right books than in turning a profit, which makes this sort of thing easy. Frankly going out and buying a few hundred books is something we enjoy. As the woes of the planet move along and reuse is better then recycling, so the whole thing seems fairly ok.
Curry in Wetherspoons in Deal for lunch
and pizza for my grownup
Cheap OK with a good cross section of people in a full pub so an enjoyable experience.
I tried to paint the ceiling
The drawing bit of painting isn't like riding a bicycle for me, if I don't do it most days the lines don't go in roughly the right direction and the natural business of getting out of the way between eye and hand doesn't happen.
There was a fairly unusual 1960s Renault van, I think a R2086 Goelette but don't know enough about them to be sure.
Back to work in the bookshop tomorrow, I am lucky to do something I enjoy
link to the photos of the books we put out yesterday
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