The Diary of a Bookseller

WEDNESDAY, 11 JUNE

Online orders: 2

Books found: 2

Laurie was in to cover the shop today.

While she was having her lunch break, a customer started rummaging through a box of unpriced books and found a Penguin edition of The Day of the Triffids, priced in pencil at 12p (presumably from a charity shop in the 1970s). When I told her that our price would be £1.50, she decided that was ‘outrageous’ and that if that was the case she’d ‘just get it from the library’. I have a feeling that ‘outraged’ may well be her factory setting.

After lunch I drove to Dumfries and picked up Anna from the railway station at 4.30 p.m. Home by 5.45 p.m.

The swallows’ eggs have all hatched: three in one nest, and four in the other. Hopefully Captain will not annihilate them.

Till total £127.50

15 customers