My personal bookseller

This is my lovely friend, Sandi, talking to a customer on the phone. I have known her for many years. This afternoon I dropped into the secondhand bookshop where she's a partner (I think that's the right terminology), and where she gave me a much needed cup of tea and shelter from the rain. Whenever I want a secondhand hardback I let her know and it miraculously appears a short while later. She has a memory like a winning contestant on 'University Challenge' and picks them up at book sales. I don't go in for Kindles, so this is a brilliant - and economic - solution to feeding my book habit.

Not bad for a rainy Monday at the beginning of January! And now we have an evening to enjoy xx