The Diary of a Bookseller

TUESDAY, 27 JANUARY

Online orders:

Books found:

Nicky was in, fashionably late as usual.

Monsoon decided to do an upgrade, and now we can’t open it, so I have no idea if we had any orders today or not.

Art class was on this afternoon, so I lit the fire at noon, only to be given a lecture by one of the ladies about how much hotter her wood burning stove is than mine. This week the class is learning portraiture and had a very pretty model. When I was attending the class several years ago, the model for our portraiture lesson was an eighty-year-old man who died while we were painting him.

Nicky took a telephone call from a customer who asked, ‘What side of the street are you on?’ – a question that clearly depends on which direction you are approaching from. He drove to the shop with a car load of books to sell. Nicky rejected them all.

Heavy snow forecast for tomorrow.

Till total £110

5 customers