Book Question

[ishtat]

I'll do one on sideboards tomorrow.

How about something more essential like: is a 90 year old meatsafe the perfect environment for your cheese?

 

[hobbit.]

How about something more essential like: is a 90 year old meatsafe the perfect environment for your cheese?

Nah. The op has bottled it, creative juices have dried up

 

[FataMorgana]

Nah. The op has bottled it, creative juices have dried up

Shaddap Taff.

 

[Adre]

And read the books. Don't just leave them to gather dust.

I am waiting for the shops to reopen. We have a special book which we bought as our first non-essential purchase shortly after we got married 48 years ago,

It was a large Victorian leatherbound copy of Cervantes Don Quixote in English with 1,000 Gustave Dore illustrations. We had gone out for the day to Hastings and were walking through the Old Town when we saw the book in a secondhand bookshop's window. When we walked back it was still there. We coveted it but couldn't really afford it.

We checked exactly how much money we had between us. We were going to buy Fish and Chips. If we didn't, we could just about afford the price of ten pounds and have a few small coins left.

We bought it but had to live on the contents of our kitchen store cupboard for the remainder of the month.

Now, 48 years later, much read and much loved, the front board has become detached. I want to get it repaired so it can remain our most precious book. That repair will cost far more than the ten pounds but it is a reminder of our first weeks of marriage when we agreed that some things were worth a sacrifice.

Money well spent, good on ya.

 

[hobbit.]

Shaddap Taff.

Leak has wilted due to that comment.

 

[FataMorgana]

Leak has wilted due to that comment.

Max Boyce will turn in his grave. If he's dead like.

 

[hobbit.]

Max Boyce will turn in his grave. If he's dead like.

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