What are people buying?
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- Jezebel
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Re: What are people buying?
The books are a great score, look to be in very nice condition. Checking my local bookshops seems to be an exercise in futility unless you want copies of 50 Shades of Grey, and Jilly Cooper.
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Re: What are people buying?
Luckily due to the proximity of a local steam railway there are some shops that specialise in train stuff, and so seem to have military sections as a little brother to the main trainy nonsense
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Re: What are people buying?
All decent bookshops will have a "Military" section, but what it covers, beyond WW2 and some modern conflicts, depends entirely on who has died recently (see our Norm for details/assistance) and had their former home cleaned out by disinterested/money-grubbing relations. Wargaming/modelling stuff is even rarer, but as GM says, if there is a decent (model) railway section you never know what might turn up.
There used to be a massive (like three floors, plus both sides of two not terribly wide staircases) second hand Grade II bookshop in Guildford called Thorp(e)'s (bizarrely there was no "e" on the sign over the front window, but it has since been included in all modern descriptions of the property), with fantastic history and modelling sections, but sadly it went the way of all flesh in 2003 after over 100 years in business and still run by the same family. Very sad.
Don't think I've ever seen all that (relevant) Blandford goodness in one place before, but then I've only started looking for WW2 stuff in the past year or so.
There used to be a massive (like three floors, plus both sides of two not terribly wide staircases) second hand Grade II bookshop in Guildford called Thorp(e)'s (bizarrely there was no "e" on the sign over the front window, but it has since been included in all modern descriptions of the property), with fantastic history and modelling sections, but sadly it went the way of all flesh in 2003 after over 100 years in business and still run by the same family. Very sad.
Don't think I've ever seen all that (relevant) Blandford goodness in one place before, but then I've only started looking for WW2 stuff in the past year or so.
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Re: What are people buying?
They were actually in 2 shops but £7 for the lot seemed quite a deal.
I love a Blandford, no matter what the subject. Military that is, none of your trams or farm machinery....
I love a Blandford, no matter what the subject. Military that is, none of your trams or farm machinery....
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Re: What are people buying?
Well quite - we wouldn't want people thinking we were weird or anything like that, now!
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Re: What are people buying?
We're not weird. Bus spotters are seriously weird.
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Re: What are people buying?
We know Buff, but we promised not to tell anyone about you.
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I have a number of oddities but, happily, that isn't one of them.
I didn't know that they existed until I walked in front of three of them while they were taking photos of a shiny new Arriva bus and got called a c***.
I didn't know that they existed until I walked in front of three of them while they were taking photos of a shiny new Arriva bus and got called a c***.
I know when to go out
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Get things done
I know when to stay in
Get things done
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Re: What are people buying?
So it wasn't just because they knew you then?
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Re: What are people buying?
One of those nut/screws/washers/bolts multi-drawer organisers - plastic this time to replace the old metal one which now needs all the drawers inside (and full) just to keep it remotely rigid. I hope it does a better job of organising its contents than the old one, as I had to keep doing that myself.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.