The Diary of a Bookseller

MONDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER

Online orders: 3

Books found: 3

Nicky, Bethan and Flo were all in today. Flo is a student who worked in the shop last summer, and is admirably disrespectful to customers, but considerably more so to me. It would have been handier to have them all in over the weekend, and I struggled to find things for them all to do.

The Writers’ Retreat was fairly quiet, except when Clare Balding was in. I spent most of the day filling the log basket and taking bin bags full of lobster carcasses and paper plates and bottles out of the kitchen and down to the bins.

Nicky brought me in some homeopathic stress relief pills and made me take two, washed down with a pint of her vile home brew.

Till total £467.12

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