The Diary of a Bookseller

TUESDAY, 11 MARCH

Online orders: 6

Books found: 6

Today was another beautiful day, and quite warm too. Nicky came in wisely wrapped up in scarf, hat and coat. Even on a cold day it is often warmer outside than it is in the shop.

Much of today was spent going through boxes of books I’ve had in storage for a year. They came from a large Victorian house near Castle Douglas. It was snowing heavily when I picked them up a year ago. The van struggled to haul the load up the slippery hill back onto the main road as I was leaving, and I thought I might have to spend the night in the house with the strange man from whom I had bought them, but it managed to get away. As I had no storage space at the time, I put the boxes in storage at Callum’s along with the golf books. Among the books I sorted through today was a rare pamphlet signed by Seamus Heaney. Harrington in London is offering the only other copy online for £225, so I put mine up at £140.

Old ladies’ art class upstairs – nobody died of exposure.

When I was closing up, I decided to open the cat flap again in the hope that the intruder has become bored with bashing his head against it and found someone else’s house to piss in.

Till total £49

6 customers