Browsing the Bookshelves

It's a victory - we have found more space. And it's  hollow, just waiting to be packed full of the precious gems of books that we need to have easy access to so, for sale and to be able to respond to queries. I can't believe it's taken so long to find suitable premises, and in the end the answer was just around the corner.  Thanks to the lovely people at Dulwich Storage Company for making it all so easy.

So a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon was spent shifting boxes of books from our Sydenham home to our new home in Dulwich. It's a bit of an exaggeration to call it a home, but it will be home to a lot of books for months to come.  No lights, minimal heat and not a comfy chair in sight, but the books will be very happy. And I'm very happy to have, finally, some space to move around at home.  Now of course I can plan on filling that space up with even more books next month.

Equally busy in the garden, planting out the first of the cordon tomatoes.  I really worry that I've caught the gardening bug - I feel the gardening calling to me the morning when I get up - as it's just another sign that I am really turning into my mother. Even worse, this afternoon, I caught myself thinking that I might really prefer to have a cup of tea in a nice cup, rather than in a chunky mug.  I've drunk tea from chuncky mugs for years and never wanted for anything else. So why now?