A welcome sight
Well, what a surprise this morning to hear the pitter patter of raindrops on the bedroom window on waking! It seems like forever since we had rain and it was a welcome sight. After running our daughter to work as her car has had to go into the garage for a repair, we decided to go for our usual morning walk. The rain had now stopped and it felt lovely and cool and fresh out there. Part way through the walk and just as we were at the furthest point from the car the heavens opened! By the time we got back to the car, across a very wet field, we were soaked!
So, now what? Well plan B. When the weather is too bad to go out and we have to stay in then we like to read. We have a garage full of books that we have already read, 2 book cases full of books, books in boxes under the bed, books on shelves in the bathroom and cookery books in the kitchen!
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| There are books in the dining room |
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| There are more books in the lounge |
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| And more books in the kitchen |
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| And yet more books in the loo! |
In fact, enough blooming books to open our own bookshop. And speaking of bookshops, here's where we went earlier today just in case we run out of books!
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| This is an old Methodist chapel that is now a second hand book shop. |
The prices of the books are so reasonable too. £1 for hardbacks and 50p for paperbacks and very occasionally an odd one for £2 It's a real bargain! They started the shop originally to raise funds to keep The Englesea Brook museum open engleseabrook.org.uk and it has been a roaring success. They usually have a big sale over the August bank holiday where they are open extra days and have an even bigger selection out on display. Well worth a visit if you're in the area. They are very grateful for donations of books too. We also look in local charity shops for book bargains and buy second hand from Amazon and eBay too.
Does anyone else enjoy reading as we do? What are your favourite books? Where do you buy books from? Have you got any recommendations for books that you think are worth a read? I have just finished The Boy with the Topknot by Santham Sanghera which was excellent, Hubby has just finished Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer which he says was a fabulous read, so much so that I am going to read it next. Has anyone got any bright ideas where we could sell the books we have read (they are taking over our garage!) Seriously, we do donate books to charity but have so many that if possible we would like to sell some to give us some spare cash to buy more (did i really just say that?!)
Have a great weekend everyone.
Jules x
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For some reason I can't comment on yesterday's post. Yes, I do buy yellow stickers sometimes, ususally for things that can go in the freezer.
ReplyDeleteAs for books, I've been ruthless and passed on hundreds of books - a friends works in the Red Cross charity shop and she took them all to sell in the shop. I get most of my books from my sister who passes on all she reads. We have very similar tastes a love detective/crime novels, and some historical fiction too. I also like the occasional fantasy novel and every now and then reread one of the classics.
Hi Eileen, not sure why you can’t post on yesterday’s? I’m not that great with technology! I pass books back and forth with my sister and daughter too. It’s nice when you have similar tastes isn’t it and you can recommend a book to someone. I like crime fiction too but nothing too gory and I have to admit that I’m a sucker for any book that has tearoom or cake in the title. They’re my guilty pleasure 🙈 x
DeleteOne of my hobbies is genealogy. I've just discovered a series of detective fiction where the lead character is a genealogist. See if you can guess what my next treat is going to be!
DeleteHello - just discovered your lovely blog! Same age, same situation (early retirement at 50 from the NHS, except hubby is still at work for a little while longer anyway!
ReplyDeleteBooks, books and more books in our house. Our 3 grown up children have all flown the nest now (30, 28 and 25) - guess what? They left all their books from their student days at our house. I've sold a few of ours via Ziffit but I'm not allowed to touch theirs!!
Hi, lovely to meet you and thanks for reading my blog. It’s lovely to retire early especially when you’ve worked in demanding jobs. I hope hubby hasn’t got to work too much longer and then can join you. I scanned a mountain of books into we buy books but they only wanted a handful. Don’t know what that says about my taste in books! Haha.
DeleteWe just have one daughter who is 20 living at home but she tends to spend most weekends at her boyfriends house so we’ve a part empty nest too
From following other blogs, I learned about Ziffit. It’s a bit tedious checking all the barcodes but made around £50 and that included some CDs. It’s no bother to do-you print a label and attach to a strong box and a courier picks it uo. I now try to pass books on asap or buy for 99p on my Kindle. I have been decluttering and although I love a physical book, the Kindle is a way to not be overun again. First comment on your blog but I couldn’t resist as it was about books.
ReplyDeleteHi Catriona, lovely that you decided to comment. So you’re a bookworm too. I’ve got a kindle but I just love the feeling of a physical book. I will download the app for ziffit and give it a go, thanks for the advice. Hopefully you will now feel able to comment again
DeleteI go through spells where I bury myself in books and it's hard to get me out. However, I don't think I have EVER had that many books...EVER..... all I got is "WOW".
ReplyDeleteHaha, it’s my husbands fault, he just doesn’t like getting rid of them but I’ve talked him into parting with some before he can get any more
DeleteI read a lot, nearly every day. Fetch books at the library, buy new ones, second-hands through sites like ziffit (but then the Dutch version) or in charity shops.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago I decided to get rid of the majority of my books and therefore I sell my books after reading them. It's quite successful.
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Thanks Ivy I will take a look at that. X
DeleteI do a turn on the till at our local Oxfam bookshop ( Harpenden) once a week, so I see a lot of books then ! I only really tend to buy books that I need for book club or presents for the family/grandkids. I am reading " Water for Elephants" at the moment. I have read it before about 3/4 years ago, but as it is my book club suggestion for the next meeting I thought I had better renew my acquaintance with it ! Amazing how much of it I have forgotten!
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