Kirkdale Bookshop
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indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966 | new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts | Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Ite domum saturae, venit Hesperus, ite capellae.
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reading about how flann o’brien wrote so many letters to the irish times under different pseudonyms who he’d get to argue with eachother across the letters page that some real letter writers were later assumed to be his inventions
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Buddo of all whalebone figurines can confirm that there is nothing new under the Neolithic sun.
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But instead of Disintegration, worse yet: it's relentless reiteration.
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Thinking of the Australian I mentioned earlier, there's something to be said for giving it to somebody who has *stopped* (maybe)
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Fabulous! Wikipedia: "Parton joked that it was about the funniest album cover she had ever made, with the largest collar she could find."
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Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.
WAHEY!!! It's Buddo, the Neolithic whalebone figurine from Orkney!
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"I wish I'd thought of saying that", wish there was a French expression to convey that feeling
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so much for cheap flights
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Good news. You can buy stairs on eBay. And the postage is FREE.
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
so much for cheap flights
jasonhazeley.bsky.social
Good news. You can buy stairs on eBay. And the postage is FREE.
An eBay advert for Bespoke Staircases, for £1,025.66 with free postage.
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I read about a pig farm that would get uncooked biscuit dough rejects from a Pillsbury factory, big lumps of dough. The pigs would chew dens in the dough, climb inside, and then wait for starlings.
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(This is of course a Pynchon reference)
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Donald Crowhurst discovered the Hollow Earth
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Methuselah could have seen New Order at the Hacienda.
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He didn't rate the Crystal Palace IIRC. Not if Marshall Berman is to be believed.
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Tell you a classic which people seem to want with surprising regularity. Crime and Punishment. By that Russian bloke who visited this area in 1862