It is tempting to make a Brexit joke, a number spring to mind, but I think I'll resist as it's not really very funny.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
A Bequeath of Books - Part 2
Well, I am impressed. Went to my post office today and there was my parcel of books from the UK. So it might have been silly money (over twenty two pounds for four books weighing three kilos), but they got here in ten days (posted Saturday 16th Newcastle Upon Tyne and arrived Wednesday 29th Perth Western Australian).
I'll avoid Brexit and suggest that with so many boats involved in those books it's amazing that Operation Sovereign Borders didn't intercept them and ship them off to a tropical holiday camp.
ReplyDeleteI fear you are referring to the Burn the Books campaign, that was also a policy of a certain regime that introduced, eh, um "holiday camps".
DeleteOne place that I did visit in London was the IWM and while I was reluctant I did force myself to go through the Holocaust exhibit. I'm glad I did. I brought home just how ordinary were the people sent off to the "camps" and how Nazi propaganda tried to portray them as holiday camps (or close to it). Truly disgusting.
Quite a haul of interesting maritime reading. The cost of international shipping borders on the ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteThis was about 10% of Tristram's collection. The wood he had accumulated for building the replica (not sure what scale) was also impressive.
DeleteNot a Brexit, but maybe a Booksit?
ReplyDeleteI suggest that anyone using "xit" as a suffix from now on be beaten mercilessly with a copy of the Life of Nelson.
Fair enough. At least I'm not suffering from Bregret although my library shelves are groaning, or would be if I could pack more of my books into them. I'm currently trialling the High Efficiency Access Protocol. Sadly it is an OH&S nightmare.
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