At the Market

[callmemadam]

At eight o’clock at the market it was already very warm. I’m not looking forward to hotter weather next week and a continued drought.

There was a chap there this morning with a table loaded with orange Penguins, green crime Penguins, white circle crime and other good things. They were a pound each so I only bought these few. He told me he has 5,000 to get rid of! I’m pretty annoyed with him because I didn’t notice until I got home that Anna and her Daughters is not complete. Grr.

These are for huskyteer if she wants them.



I never pass up the chance to buy a John and Mary book because you hardly ever see them. I have a complete set but the one I bought today is a 1st and the jacketed one I already have is a reprint. Purist that I am, I’ll have to keep the first as well. Elsewhere, a seller had a box of modern books. They were of no interest to me but a chap was scanning the barcodes on his phone, presumably to see what he could get for them from Ziffit or a similar outfit. Blimey, the world of the boot sale is changing.

Comments

[mouse.livejournal.com]

Why am I not surprised there was a bloke scanning barcodes at a boot sale? Online secondhand sales are huge these days and technology makes it so easy for those who do it as a business. I sometimes feel the world is changing too quickly for my liking.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

It was the first time I'd seen such a thing! I thought it rather blatant in front of the seller, who was probably asking very little for the books.

[debodacious.livejournal.com]

What a shame about the O Douglas - how much is missing?

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

It's D E Stevenson. I've read the book, used to have a hardback and think it's one you can now get for Kindle? But, I would have added it to my paperback collection. It's hard to tell just how many pages have gone, but too many to make it worth reading. Caveat emptor.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Yes please!! (I think I have double-figures editions of Casino Royale now.)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should read them.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

They won't take long! Moonraker is my absolute favourite and full of lovely descriptions of Kent.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

As good as H E Bates? I'll give it a go, though, since you rate it so highly.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Due, I think, to chocolate-biscuit-based confusion at a very early age I am unable to think of green-jacket Penguins as anything other than Peppermint Penguins.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Heh!