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This piece of joy (on the left) is a VAT return

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:04:53 +0100

VAT returns have to be submitted every quarter by law. I’m not in favour of many laws generally (state oppression and all the rest of it), but I do see the logic of this form of government funding. Not that a penny of it should go to evil city bakers or their like. And not that the government should contemplate cutting a single state funded service (education, health, social services, etc) as a result of their profligate sloshing of money all over the City. City types are, I think, wel

We don’t often have bestsellers, but this week...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:14:13 +0100

Dan Brown and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon have slogged it out. But I bet that Xanthe Clay will win!

And now I love Mrs Smith

Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:11:45 +0100

Who lent her local bookseller her old car until he got himself sorted out with an old car of his own!

Just back from the Italian Alps:

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:58:33 +0100

All camper vans, mozarella, waterfalls, big hills and glaciers. No bookshops. None. For a whole week. Nightmare.

Together on the shelf, bizarrely:

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:14:19 +0100

Nobel Prize Winner Orhan Pamuk. And Adele Parks.