In which we go to the seaside
Published at 3:00 pm on January 19th, 2009
Filed under: Dear Diary.
We should be banned from second-hand bookshops. They’re far too tempting. Even though we have hundreds of books, many many books we’ve never read, we still can’t resist popping into a second-hand bookshop and buying more. It’s not like going in a normal bookshop, where you have a good chance the same books will be on the shelf the following week. If you’re in a town you don’t know, and you visit a second-hand bookshop, there’s a good chance you might come across a book that you’ll never, ever see again anywhere else.
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Keyword noise: books, bookshops, literature, lookalike, pier, seaside, shopping, Clevedon.
In which nothing gets bought
Published at 7:07 am on March 2nd, 2006
Filed under: Dear Diary.
Well, I had planned to go shopping. I didn’t want to go to any record shops, because that always leads to me spending much more money that I’d intended. So, I was going to go to one of my favourite London shopping streets, Lower Marsh.
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Keyword noise: books, bookshops, Ian Allan, London, Lower Marsh, shopping, Waterloo.