Grumpy and I went along to the Save the Children Fund book sale at the uni on Saturday morning. I had taken $60 out of the bank and that was going to be the budget I stuck to.
To which I stuck. To which I had plans of sticking.
But then Grumpy found - ie, snatched away as someone else was reaching for it - a book of photos of Ernest Hemingway which we just had to have and then there were all those Girls' Own annuals from the 1950s (of which Grumpy commented, "You sure own a lot of kids' books for someone who hates kids."*) and various Saint books in hardcover, so it was a good thing they had eftpos.
To our amusement we also spotted a book called Hypatia. We contemplated buying it in memory of our old mate Dropsy but, you know, we didn't like him that much.
*I don't hate kids. I've just been in a very bad mood for 40 years.
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