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# Ours is a Waterstones now
But its even WORSE than Ottakers.

I honestly dont know how bookshops like that are still in business what with this new fangled interweb business
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:16, archived)
# ah I dunno, I love bookshops
it's the smell of books that does it for me

cos that's the smell of KNOWLEDGE


and books about Hitler
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:21, archived)
# Little bookshops
like in Black Books.

The smell of those is DIVINE. Old books smell better than new books. My copy of LOTR, for example. Ohhhhhh it smells wonderful.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:24, archived)
# ^this^
I'm talking about the Goliath Books of this world.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:24, archived)
# Hehe..heheh... it's
funky.


*stubs cigarette into hand* oooooh, sorry.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:25, archived)
# I have a top tip for you if you ever visit Edinburgh.
Find the Kings Building (the University of Edinburgh Science campus) and go to the Jospeh Black building (Chemistry). On teh second floor there is a small chemistry library full of books dating back to god only knows when. It has a smell which only a few very sexy things surpas. They've either had a small fire in there or you used to be able to smoke or something - the leather, the old books, the faint sweet smell of pipe smoke...

*groans*
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:32, archived)
# Oh fuck don't talk dirty.
That sounds wonderful. I bought my best mate (the one in the post below) a copy of a book that was 100 years old on her birthday and is about a girl who spells her name in the same way that she does (odd spelling of fairly not odd name) - it smells like heaven. Pure unadulterated heaven.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:33, archived)
# meet me in the library in 15 minutes -
don't bother with clothes, they'll only get in the way.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:36, archived)
# See you there!
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:40, archived)
# yer
the Oxfam bookshop in Windsor is great - plus they sell MONEY
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:33, archived)
# Do they?!
I'd love a pound note. If they have any, can you tell me how much they are?
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:34, archived)
# have you not got a pound note?
I probably have a spare one somewhere
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:36, archived)
# Noooo, should I?
When did they go out of circulation?

I'd like a halfpenny as well, because they went out of being legal tender in the year I was born. I must shop for these things.

Don't you give me your spares, you might need them! Oh you lovely kitty though.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:38, archived)
# Scotland
more reasons to come to Scotlans.

pound notes are here.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:37, archived)
# Oh fuck.
Pound notes, Scottish accents, men in occasional kilts....


Fucking hell, when I die, if I've been a really good girl I might end up in Scotland.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:39, archived)
# I have a friend who works for visitscotland
I'm sending him this post

:)
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:43, archived)
# It's a good thing I live so far away.
I have to talk to a lot of people from Uddingston in my work and it doesn't make life any easier when some great big Glaswegian chap is growling something down the phone at me.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:45, archived)
# Waterstones is owner by HMV
and I agree - both business models are untennable in a future where people never leave the safe glow of their monitor.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:29, archived)
# I love a good shopping trip.
Had one recently in Oxford, it was LOVELY. Just me and my best mate being girls and trolling around, absolutely wonderful.

To be fair, spending time with her makes my heart swell anyway as I love her so much, but it just was brilliant fun.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:31, archived)
# sounds great
it does kind of piss me off the way everywhere is turning into Main Street UK, and Quirky off main street UK... Boutique Street UK
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:34, archived)
# I like side streets.
The best shops are on side streets.


Go to Thame actually, very few chain stores in Thame.
(, Fri 16 May 2008, 12:37, archived)