Birthday Cards

 The new girl at work has a birthday coming up - her first as a real bookseller - and I wanted to get her a book-themed birthday card.

Should be easy in Hay, shouldn't it?

Well, it used to be.  There was a very good card supplier that did cards with spines of old books, or amusing book covers, and Broad Street Book Centre used to carry them.  When I got there, though, they only had a couple left, and the rest were landscapes and nature pictures.

So I went to Booths - I think they may have had the same supplier at one time - but they only had one, a portrait of a woman reading a book.  Lots of variety of other stuff (they've got some cute Moomin cards, for instance) and several of Hay and Booth Books, but not what I had in mind.  I bought a bookmark in the shape of a pile of books, just in case I couldn't find a card anywhere else.

Bartrums had a few general cards.  North Books had nature designs.

Then, at Oil and Oak, I struck paydirt.  A card with a photo of shelves of books.  They said they often have cards with books on them, and they always sell out quickly.

There are a couple of other places to buy cards in Hay - the Craft Centre, for instance - but I stopped there.