The Titfield Thunderbolt Bookshop

Wednesday 24th December

How time keeps flying

Crikey, where did this year go? This is a hurried piece of writing before I head off home for some last minute wrapping and checking that Charlie has peeled all those King Edwards ready for tomorrow's culinary efforts.

I would have left earlier but my Friend Alan Dorrington and his mate Dave left the shop having extracted a promise that I really would be updating my "talking shop" blog before leaving the shop.

Alan attemped the final sale of the year by investing in some Modelscene oil barrels for his miniature locomotive depot but was trumped by Dave with a very fetching Alan Godfrey map of Frome. Well I thought that was that, but then a harrassed looking young man entered in search of cards and such was his need that he managed to find a few suitable yuletide-ish images from my stocks, and so I can announce the very last item sold in 2014 was a Peter Barnfield image of Bath Green Park shed in the snow and ice of '62/'63.

So ends the fourth year of a Larkhall bookseller......

Next year promises to be very interesting with my acquisition of Wild Swan books, although there is a fair bit of work to do behind the scenes before I am ready for action in the New Year.

So finally, here is a shot of the shop's Christmas tree, a fetching number in pink with the late and much missed Colin Binnie sitting atop and probably planning another attack on Marjorie's curtains with some DIY injection moulding in their kitchen in Wells.

He was a great character.