Archive for November, 2007
Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 28 November, 2007
There really are some days the dragon wins, and there are some days it just doesn’t win but it chews you up, spits you out and then flame roasts you to top it off! and today was one of those days.
First of all everyone is suffering cold symptoms thus making the day feel full of fun from the start, then its Christmas decoration time (Bah humbug – can we say carbon emmission protocols! what’s with the lights and electricity overuse!) so lights are going up and thats a lot of work for the minions to do – though they seemed to be enjoying it and after decorating one space wanted to continue on! maybe i should get them some elf ears to go with the red noses from the cold symptoms??
So anyway thats all going on and customers are coming in ( that we like) and we are getting on with the serving when in the middle of trying to do one thing, I am expected to multitask another job. so not fair and the day goes on.
Anyway suffice to say slightly later on we have a minion meltdown – probably caused by an excess of christmas lights and cold symptoms – but one of the minions has a dosey of a meltdown and goes home. Lets hope it all blows over soon and they are back at work as normal in due course as life without minions is so unfulfilling at times.
Anyway life goes on after minion, and I begin to re-enter the order that the computer ate on Saturday – I kid you not, saturday was a busting day – very christmas shopper busy – lots of Military and Steam Engine DVD’s whizzing out the store, along with books, jigsaws and Paint by Numbers and to top it off I had a spinner and four massive boxes of Velvet Arts delivered – very nice designs of Playboy Bunnies being Exterminated by Daleks whilst Betty Boop stands and screams and Homer Simpson wonders whats going on! hey whizzed out the shop too, well at £1.25 or 5 for £5 they are just too good a bargain to stay still!
So anyway they came in and i had 2 bumper boxes of Fairway Christian Books to get on the system and out, so i duly batch them through like a trojan, all scanned found and entered, and then shelved – I then whizzed on to putting out the 186 secondhand books that were sitting on the counters waiting to be stickered and shelved – did that just to have a woman bring in 56 Josephine Cox books that then have to be dealt with – and I do, but then someone else comes in with 27 various sci-fi authors, I tell you it was never ending! but by the end of the day it was all done! yahhoo!
However today i go to do stock re-ordering and find that the fairway books that have been sold are showing as not on the system!!! so i dig deeper as that cannot be right! and sure enough it isn’t right, they are on the system – they are there, i did not dream entering 37 lines oh no – I did indeed enter them but in the wrong darn database! it would seem that there are 2 databases on the system and that on saturday the wrong one was opened for some reason and all the days work was entered onto the old dead database and not the nice new live one! and can they be transferred? no they have to be re-input!
Still at least it explains why the database seems to sometimes eat titles we know we have had in! They are there in the wrong database! so what causes the wrong database to open occasionally – well on that one we do not have a clue, but at least we now know to check the database first thing in the morning so we can rectify any future fiasco’s like this.
Talking of dragons!
Anne and Todd McCaffrey’s latest dragons of Pern book is now on the shelves, both American and UK covers are in!
It’s called Dragon’s Fire (ISBN: 978-0345480293) and is priced at £6.99 and is an absolutely brilliant book for Pern fans, what is so brilliant about it for me though is that one of the main characters in it is disabled, he cannot speak, and this really adds some extra dimension to the story. So anyway this is a really good book and well worth a read – I must admit to liking the collaborative books between ms McCaffrey and her son in the pern-verse and this one is good – pop in and get it ( oh and the US cover is much more colourful than the UK edition!).
So anyway that was the fun today, being a bookshopboss is sometimes a lot like work! see you in the shop tomorrow.
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Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 28 November, 2007
There really are some days the dragon wins, and there are some days it just doesn’t win but it chews you up, spits you out and then flame roasts you to top it off! and today was one of those days.
First of all everyone is suffering cold symptoms thus making the day feel full of fun from the start, then its Christmas decoration time (Bah humbug – can we say carbon emmission protocols! what’s with the lights and electricity overuse!) so lights are going up and thats a lot of work for the minions to do – though they seemed to be enjoying it and after decorating one space wanted to continue on! maybe i should get them some elf ears to go with the red noses from the cold symptoms??
So anyway thats all going on and customers are coming in ( that we like) and we are getting on with the serving when in the middle of trying to do one thing, I am expected to multitask another job. so not fair and the day goes on.
Anyway suffice to say slightly later on we have a minion meltdown – probably caused by an excess of christmas lights and cold symptoms – but one of the minions has a dosey of a meltdown and goes home. Lets hope it all blows over soon and they are back at work as normal in due course as life without minions is so unfulfilling at times.
Anyway life goes on after minion, and I begin to re-enter the order that the computer ate on Saturday – I kid you not, saturday was a busting day – very christmas shopper busy – lots of Military and Steam Engine DVD’s whizzing out the store, along with books, jigsaws and Paint by Numbers and to top it off I had a spinner and four massive boxes of Velvet Arts delivered – very nice designs of Playboy Bunnies being Exterminated by Daleks whilst Betty Boop stands and screams and Homer Simpson wonders whats going on! hey whizzed out the shop too, well at £1.25 or 5 for £5 they are just too good a bargain to stay still!
So anyway they came in and i had 2 bumper boxes of Fairway Christian Books to get on the system and out, so i duly batch them through like a trojan, all scanned found and entered, and then shelved – I then whizzed on to putting out the 186 secondhand books that were sitting on the counters waiting to be stickered and shelved – did that just to have a woman bring in 56 Josephine Cox books that then have to be dealt with – and I do, but then someone else comes in with 27 various sci-fi authors, I tell you it was never ending! but by the end of the day it was all done! yahhoo!
However today i go to do stock re-ordering and find that the fairway books that have been sold are showing as not on the system!!! so i dig deeper as that cannot be right! and sure enough it isn’t right, they are on the system – they are there, i did not dream entering 37 lines oh no – I did indeed enter them but in the wrong darn database! it would seem that there are 2 databases on the system and that on saturday the wrong one was opened for some reason and all the days work was entered onto the old dead database and not the nice new live one! and can they be transferred? no they have to be re-input!
Still at least it explains why the database seems to sometimes eat titles we know we have had in! They are there in the wrong database! so what causes the wrong database to open occasionally – well on that one we do not have a clue, but at least we now know to check the database first thing in the morning so we can rectify any future fiasco’s like this.
Talking of dragons!
Anne and Todd McCaffrey’s latest dragons of Pern book is now on the shelves, both American and UK covers are in!
It’s called Dragon’s Fire (ISBN: 978-0345480293) and is priced at £6.99 and is an absolutely brilliant book for Pern fans, what is so brilliant about it for me though is that one of the main characters in it is disabled, he cannot speak, and this really adds some extra dimension to the story. So anyway this is a really good book and well worth a read – I must admit to liking the collaborative books between ms McCaffrey and her son in the pern-verse and this one is good – pop in and get it ( oh and the US cover is much more colourful than the UK edition!).
So anyway that was the fun today, being a bookshopboss is sometimes a lot like work! see you in the shop tomorrow.
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Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 27 November, 2007
There really are some days the dragon wins, and there are some days it just doesn’t win but it chews you up, spits you out and then flame roasts you to top it off! and today was one of those days.
First of all everyone is suffering cold symptoms thus making the day feel full of fun from the start, then its Christmas decoration time (Bah humbug – can we say carbon emmission protocols! what’s with the lights and electricity overuse!) so lights are going up and thats a lot of work for the minions to do – though they seemed to be enjoying it and after decorating one space wanted to continue on! maybe i should get them some elf ears to go with the red noses from the cold symptoms??
So anyway thats all going on and customers are coming in ( that we like) and we are getting on with the serving when in the middle of trying to do one thing, I am expected to multitask another job. so not fair and the day goes on.
Anyway suffice to say slightly later on we have a minion meltdown – probably caused by an excess of christmas lights and cold symptoms – but one of the minions has a dosey of a meltdown and goes home. Lets hope it all blows over soon and they are back at work as normal in due course as life without minions is so unfulfilling at times.
Anyway life goes on after minion, and I begin to re-enter the order that the computer ate on Saturday – I kid you not, saturday was a busting day – very christmas shopper busy – lots of Military and Steam Engine DVD’s whizzing out the store, along with books, jigsaws and Paint by Numbers and to top it off I had a spinner and four massive boxes of Velvet Arts delivered – very nice designs of Playboy Bunnies being Exterminated by Daleks whilst Betty Boop stands and screams and Homer Simpson wonders whats going on! hey whizzed out the shop too, well at £1.25 or 5 for £5 they are just too good a bargain to stay still!
So anyway they came in and i had 2 bumper boxes of Fairway Christian Books to get on the system and out, so i duly batch them through like a trojan, all scanned found and entered, and then shelved – I then whizzed on to putting out the 186 secondhand books that were sitting on the counters waiting to be stickered and shelved – did that just to have a woman bring in 56 Josephine Cox books that then have to be dealt with – and I do, but then someone else comes in with 27 various sci-fi authors, I tell you it was never ending! but by the end of the day it was all done! yahhoo!
However today i go to do stock re-ordering and find that the fairway books that have been sold are showing as not on the system!!! so i dig deeper as that cannot be right! and sure enough it isn’t right, they are on the system – they are there, i did not dream entering 37 lines oh no – I did indeed enter them but in the wrong darn database! it would seem that there are 2 databases on the system and that on saturday the wrong one was opened for some reason and all the days work was entered onto the old dead database and not the nice new live one! and can they be transferred? no they have to be re-input!
Still at least it explains why the database seems to sometimes eat titles we know we have had in! They are there in the wrong database! so what causes the wrong database to open occasionally – well on that one we do not have a clue, but at least we now know to check the database first thing in the morning so we can rectify any future fiasco’s like this.
Talking of dragons!
Anne and Todd McCaffrey’s latest dragons of Pern book is now on the shelves, both American and UK covers are in!
It’s called Dragon’s Fire (ISBN: 978-0345480293) and is priced at £6.99 and is an absolutely brilliant book for Pern fans, what is so brilliant about it for me though is that one of the main characters in it is disabled, he cannot speak, and this really adds some extra dimension to the story. So anyway this is a really good book and well worth a read – I must admit to liking the collaborative books between ms McCaffrey and her son in the pern-verse and this one is good – pop in and get it ( oh and the US cover is much more colourful than the UK edition!).
So anyway that was the fun today, being a bookshopboss is sometimes a lot like work! see you in the shop tomorrow.
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Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 21 November, 2007
Christmas Time is here! how do i know? The Nativity Sets order arrived and there are some fantastic sets and angels and decorations and stuff and if I do say so myself the display is not too bad either!
I had great fun trying to get it all to fit, especially as yesterday 8 big boxes of Paint By numbers, art supplies and more arrived and needed homing as well.
There are some great canvas designs in – Thomas Kinkaide glow like ones that you too can do!
But back to the angels and nativity sets, there are some really cute ones in and at pocket money prices, but there are also some wonderful faux wood ones that are simply luscious and would look great on the mantlepiece, but won’t sting the pocket too much!
So anyway there we go, Christmas is now officially here!
So ok nativity sets in, angels in, christian books in, communion wafers in – but no we can’t sell communion wine except for the noon-alcoholic version – the market building has a no selling alcohol policy! So thats it all set and ready for the season of advent and christmas. Just the cards to write and presents to get for minions and friends!
OOOH do you know what? (perhaps you do) Dave Walker of the
CartoonChurch Blog (he rocks, it rocks, I dream of being that amusing and on the ball) linked my blog! thank you sir, I bow to you.
Anyway so in case you missed it –
the shop is sort of tidy, the minions are ruling for the next 2 days as I am elsewhere being
bookish and busy, and the shelves are stuffed with stock and there is the coolest collection of colourful objet d’arts in stock (ok paint by numbers etc etc and nativity sets and angels) for you to come in and adore and then take home with you after releasing that christmas money you have saved all through the year!
See you in the shop on saturday, have fun with the minions until then.
Ohh and by the way visit our new christmas charity appeal – we are donating to Habitat for Humanity for Christmas,
and our official sponsored charity for the year is Great Ormond Street Hospital Childrens Charity – thats where all the pennies people kindly leave behind are going to, and its also where a percentage of the shops profits go! feel free to donate online as well.
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Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 21 November, 2007
Christmas Time is here! how do i know? The Nativity Sets order arrived and there are some fantastic sets and angels and decorations and stuff and if I do say so myself the display is not too bad either!
I had great fun trying to get it all to fit, especially as yesterday 8 big boxes of Paint By numbers, art supplies and more arrived and needed homing as well.
There are some great canvas designs in – Thomas Kinkaide glow like ones that you too can do!
But back to the angels and nativity sets, there are some really cute ones in and at pocket money prices, but there are also some wonderful faux wood ones that are simply luscious and would look great on the mantlepiece, but won’t sting the pocket too much!
So anyway there we go, Christmas is now officially here!
So ok nativity sets in, angels in, christian books in, communion wafers in – but no we can’t sell communion wine except for the noon-alcoholic version – the market building has a no selling alcohol policy! So thats it all set and ready for the season of advent and christmas. Just the cards to write and presents to get for minions and friends!
OOOH do you know what? (perhaps you do) Dave Walker of the
CartoonChurch Blog (he rocks, it rocks, I dream of being that amusing and on the ball) linked my blog! thank you sir, I bow to you.
Anyway so in case you missed it –
the shop is sort of tidy, the minions are ruling for the next 2 days as I am elsewhere being
bookish and busy, and the shelves are stuffed with stock and there is the coolest collection of colourful objet d’arts in stock (ok paint by numbers etc etc and nativity sets and angels) for you to come in and adore and then take home with you after releasing that christmas money you have saved all through the year!
See you in the shop on saturday, have fun with the minions until then.
Ohh and by the way visit our new christmas charity appeal – we are donating to Habitat for Humanity for Christmas,
and our official sponsored charity for the year is Great Ormond Street Hospital Childrens Charity – thats where all the pennies people kindly leave behind are going to, and its also where a percentage of the shops profits go! feel free to donate online as well.
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Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 21 November, 2007
Christmas Time is here! how do i know? The Nativity Sets order arrived and there are some fantastic sets and angels and decorations and stuff and if I do say so myself the display is not too bad either!
I had great fun trying to get it all to fit, especially as yesterday 8 big boxes of Paint By numbers, art supplies and more arrived and needed homing as well.
There are some great canvas designs in – Thomas Kinkaide glow like ones that you too can do!
But back to the angels and nativity sets, there are some really cute ones in and at pocket money prices, but there are also some wonderful faux wood ones that are simply luscious and would look great on the mantlepiece, but won’t sting the pocket too much!
So anyway there we go, Christmas is now officially here!
So ok nativity sets in, angels in, christian books in, communion wafers in – but no we can’t sell communion wine except for the noon-alcoholic version – the market building has a no selling alcohol policy! So thats it all set and ready for the season of advent and christmas. Just the cards to write and presents to get for minions and friends!
OOOH do you know what? (perhaps you do) Dave Walker of the
CartoonChurch Blog (he rocks, it rocks, I dream of being that amusing and on the ball) linked my blog! thank you sir, I bow to you.
Anyway so in case you missed it –
the shop is sort of tidy, the minions are ruling for the next 2 days as I am elsewhere being
bookish and busy, and the shelves are stuffed with stock and there is the coolest collection of colourful objet d’arts in stock (ok paint by numbers etc etc and nativity sets and angels) for you to come in and adore and then take home with you after releasing that christmas money you have saved all through the year!
See you in the shop on saturday, have fun with the minions until then.
Ohh and by the way visit our new christmas charity appeal – we are donating to Habitat for Humanity for Christmas,
and our official sponsored charity for the year is Great Ormond Street Hospital Childrens Charity – thats where all the pennies people kindly leave behind are going to, and its also where a percentage of the shops profits go! feel free to donate online as well.
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Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 15 November, 2007
OHHH! my arms really ache and I have bruises on my biceps!
Today was long, hassled and hectic as me and minion numero uno did the bookshelf boogie today, that is to say that at 8:30 this morning 7 full sized and dismantled bookcases were delivered, and had to be pieced together whilst at the same time the old pine -My Goodness how many screws did the chippie have to use!!!- units, which were designed by satan himself to confound even the best krypton factor contestant, had to be cleared of books and taken apart.
Was it fun – not after the first 20 minutes! but did it get done?? Yes it did and we even served customers in between – now if you were one of those poor bewildered customers, well my apologies but hey it looks neater now!
So anyway at 4:30 we packed away the tools, removed screwdriver bits from yielding flesh and left a mess of disorganzied sci-fi sitting on new shelves.
So anyway just so you know if you come in tomorrow we will be doing the abc song a lot as we try to reorganize the sci-fi shelves, the historic fiction section and the white – true life (cry Cry) – books, both new and secondhand.
Oh and by the way thats the second rejig and shelf shuttle in just over 2 weeks, as we redid crime and thriller, – it really was miss scarlett in the library with the hammer! – childrens corner and made a whole new section for religious/christian books and lots of space for the communion wafers which came in last week.
It is beginning to look like a bookshop!.
Anyway just to let you all know it is safe to come back in and get some books without too much disruption around you for about the next 2 weeks now, as we won’t be able to do anymore now until we have thoroughly worked out the dimensions of the secondhand department and exactly how to reshuffle it to fit in at least another 3 bays of books!
We just still need more shelf space – lots more books to get in and display nicely so that you, my beloved and adored legions of customers (yes thats you, you twits!) can come along and buy them!
Oh by the way just so you all knows, the first STL order came in today – yay at last, christian books fully on tap and in in a jif!
and we also had a bumper delivery in of criss-cross and codebreaker puzzle books, so hopefully that should please a few of you ( I am going to keep some hidden so i dont get moaned at when they are all gone!).
We are also expecting a giant delivery of paint by numbers and engraving art/scraperfoils in, there are at least 7 new designs ordered and the bumper packs and the acrylic canvasses are absolutely fantastic and will make the best christmas gifts!!
Right that’s it, I am done and need to go relax and uncramp in a bath of radox muscle ease! perhaps with a nice glass of ovaltine or something like that so I am fit and ready for minions, customers and the fray of a friday morning!
Be good all my little frosticles of joy and remember to put the gloves on the radiator as it keeps the fingers warmer! see you in the shop tomorrow.
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Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 15 November, 2007
OHHH! my arms really ache and I have bruises on my biceps!
Today was long, hassled and hectic as me and minion numero uno did the bookshelf boogie today, that is to say that at 8:30 this morning 7 full sized and dismantled bookcases were delivered, and had to be pieced together whilst at the same time the old pine -My Goodness how many screws did the chippie have to use!!!- units, which were designed by satan himself to confound even the best krypton factor contestant, had to be cleared of books and taken apart.
Was it fun – not after the first 20 minutes! but did it get done?? Yes it did and we even served customers in between – now if you were one of those poor bewildered customers, well my apologies but hey it looks neater now!
So anyway at 4:30 we packed away the tools, removed screwdriver bits from yielding flesh and left a mess of disorganzied sci-fi sitting on new shelves.
So anyway just so you know if you come in tomorrow we will be doing the abc song a lot as we try to reorganize the sci-fi shelves, the historic fiction section and the white – true life (cry Cry) – books, both new and secondhand.
Oh and by the way thats the second rejig and shelf shuttle in just over 2 weeks, as we redid crime and thriller, – it really was miss scarlett in the library with the hammer! – childrens corner and made a whole new section for religious/christian books and lots of space for the communion wafers which came in last week.
It is beginning to look like a bookshop!.
Anyway just to let you all know it is safe to come back in and get some books without too much disruption around you for about the next 2 weeks now, as we won’t be able to do anymore now until we have thoroughly worked out the dimensions of the secondhand department and exactly how to reshuffle it to fit in at least another 3 bays of books!
We just still need more shelf space – lots more books to get in and display nicely so that you, my beloved and adored legions of customers (yes thats you, you twits!) can come along and buy them!
Oh by the way just so you all knows, the first STL order came in today – yay at last, christian books fully on tap and in in a jif!
and we also had a bumper delivery in of criss-cross and codebreaker puzzle books, so hopefully that should please a few of you ( I am going to keep some hidden so i dont get moaned at when they are all gone!).
We are also expecting a giant delivery of paint by numbers and engraving art/scraperfoils in, there are at least 7 new designs ordered and the bumper packs and the acrylic canvasses are absolutely fantastic and will make the best christmas gifts!!
Right that’s it, I am done and need to go relax and uncramp in a bath of radox muscle ease! perhaps with a nice glass of ovaltine or something like that so I am fit and ready for minions, customers and the fray of a friday morning!
Be good all my little frosticles of joy and remember to put the gloves on the radiator as it keeps the fingers warmer! see you in the shop tomorrow.
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Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 15 November, 2007
OHHH! my arms really ache and I have bruises on my biceps!
Today was long, hassled and hectic as me and minion numero uno did the bookshelf boogie today, that is to say that at 8:30 this morning 7 full sized and dismantled bookcases were delivered, and had to be pieced together whilst at the same time the old pine -My Goodness how many screws did the chippie have to use!!!- units, which were designed by satan himself to confound even the best krypton factor contestant, had to be cleared of books and taken apart.
Was it fun – not after the first 20 minutes! but did it get done?? Yes it did and we even served customers in between – now if you were one of those poor bewildered customers, well my apologies but hey it looks neater now!
So anyway at 4:30 we packed away the tools, removed screwdriver bits from yielding flesh and left a mess of disorganzied sci-fi sitting on new shelves.
So anyway just so you know if you come in tomorrow we will be doing the abc song a lot as we try to reorganize the sci-fi shelves, the historic fiction section and the white – true life (cry Cry) – books, both new and secondhand.
Oh and by the way thats the second rejig and shelf shuttle in just over 2 weeks, as we redid crime and thriller, – it really was miss scarlett in the library with the hammer! – childrens corner and made a whole new section for religious/christian books and lots of space for the communion wafers which came in last week.
It is beginning to look like a bookshop!.
Anyway just to let you all know it is safe to come back in and get some books without too much disruption around you for about the next 2 weeks now, as we won’t be able to do anymore now until we have thoroughly worked out the dimensions of the secondhand department and exactly how to reshuffle it to fit in at least another 3 bays of books!
We just still need more shelf space – lots more books to get in and display nicely so that you, my beloved and adored legions of customers (yes thats you, you twits!) can come along and buy them!
Oh by the way just so you all knows, the first STL order came in today – yay at last, christian books fully on tap and in in a jif!
and we also had a bumper delivery in of criss-cross and codebreaker puzzle books, so hopefully that should please a few of you ( I am going to keep some hidden so i dont get moaned at when they are all gone!).
We are also expecting a giant delivery of paint by numbers and engraving art/scraperfoils in, there are at least 7 new designs ordered and the bumper packs and the acrylic canvasses are absolutely fantastic and will make the best christmas gifts!!
Right that’s it, I am done and need to go relax and uncramp in a bath of radox muscle ease! perhaps with a nice glass of ovaltine or something like that so I am fit and ready for minions, customers and the fray of a friday morning!
Be good all my little frosticles of joy and remember to put the gloves on the radiator as it keeps the fingers warmer! see you in the shop tomorrow.
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Posted by unicorntreebooksboss on 1 November, 2007
Wow! things have been busy in the life of this bookshop boss! Diary and Calender season hit with a rush in early october and is steam rollering ahead! All the holiday makers brought their books back en mass and for a while it looked like we were trying to put in new walls in the shop made solely out of secondhand books! either that or the minions and customer base were just trying to box me in to keep me out the way! luckily we have now got a grip on this and shelved most of it, but now is the time for a bargain as a lot of the books we had in are now being sold on quick through no return at only 99p each or 10 for £5.00 and this includes some top authors like Dan Brown and Martina Cole!
We are now also carrying lots more religious books and have just been granted our remit to sell ‘religious items’ as well, so we have now have nativity sets, advent calenders, candles and Church Lectionaries in stock and as from next week we will have Communion Wafers in! how cool is that – well ok so I think its cool, however we now need more room!!!
Science Fiction and Paranormals keeps growing and we are carrying some manga and graphic Books now! and it goes on, and what with more religious, more thrillers, more saga’s and lots more gen we are packed to the gills!
So be warned my loyal and somewhat lovely customers and my serving minions of staff – new bookcases have been ordered and much shifting of shelves will be occuring in the next few weeks! now as I am way too tight to close for a few days, and anyway what would all you readers do if we did that! this moving will occur whilst you are wandering around – now as it means dis-assembling some units and assembling others this will perhaps be a bit gory for the feint hearted and those with OCD! however we will endeavour ( well ok i will try a little!) to keep the mess and inconvenience down as much as possible, but there will be times when the section you want may well be in a box as its shelves are altered and rebuilt, but as long as you are officianado’s of the jumble sale and rummage mentality then you should still be able to get by and grab that bargain of a book that you know is waiting for you!
So there we go, plans revealed, and already I feel tired just thinking about it let alone doing it!
By the way can I recommend John Ringo to you, his tech net fantasy is just really really good, starting with ‘ Here Be Dragons’ which is available at a stunning bargain price of only £3.99 for a limited time instead of £6.99, it then continues on with ‘Emerald Sea” which has mermaids and dragons, but also a stunning set of battle scenes that are a joy to read. So there we go, Bookshop Boss seriously recommends you nip in and get some John Ringo books to see you through the trials of the bookcase shuffle for the next few weeks.
Right, tired now, need caffeine or sleep and as there is more I want to do that would be caffeine! the staple of my diet! Going now see you in the shop tomorrow!
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