PERSONAL: Shopping
Sep. 1st, 2008 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllWith the British summer weather as it is, my back-up plan for my holiday has turned out to be looking for charity shops. It wasn't going to be so extensive as buying nine books (and counting?) but I did leave home for a week's break with only a couple of days' worth on me. And then, apparently, according to the manager of the B and B, there weren't any charity shops where I am staying. Except that I found some. Very well hidden they were too. One develops a nose...
I have wandered through bookstores where they sell newly published books, but can't justify buying anything there just at the moment. I also found a second hand shop after my own heart in an outlying town. Books all piled up in a way that makes you afraid to sneeze, and organised by genre. The children's books available were a bit 'eh' as far as I was concerned though, thin paperbacks that weren't old enough to skew my interest. However, I did get an Angela Brazil, and that cheaply because two of the illustrations were missing, as the bookseller dolefully informed me. Did I care? No. So long as pages including the story aren't missing and the text is legible, sell it to me!
And then the charity shops. I don't want to try to top up how many I've visited over two days. When not shopping, I have been reading, and I may have reviews...eventually, but my brain is far too scrambled for all that now.
PS - About the tennis. I didn't have a prediction for either the male or female champion, as I thought both were within the grasp of a few people. I'm following via the internet at the moment, but it's interesting who seems to have been playing well.
I have wandered through bookstores where they sell newly published books, but can't justify buying anything there just at the moment. I also found a second hand shop after my own heart in an outlying town. Books all piled up in a way that makes you afraid to sneeze, and organised by genre. The children's books available were a bit 'eh' as far as I was concerned though, thin paperbacks that weren't old enough to skew my interest. However, I did get an Angela Brazil, and that cheaply because two of the illustrations were missing, as the bookseller dolefully informed me. Did I care? No. So long as pages including the story aren't missing and the text is legible, sell it to me!
And then the charity shops. I don't want to try to top up how many I've visited over two days. When not shopping, I have been reading, and I may have reviews...eventually, but my brain is far too scrambled for all that now.
PS - About the tennis. I didn't have a prediction for either the male or female champion, as I thought both were within the grasp of a few people. I'm following via the internet at the moment, but it's interesting who seems to have been playing well.
