New Map

I saw Derek Addyman this morning, delivering boxes of the new Booksellers' Map around the other bookshops. This comes out once a year, at Easter, and Derek co-ordinates it. It shows the locations of all the bookshops, starting with the Children's Bookshop at No.1, because they are a little bit outside town, and it also gives details of what each shop specialises in, and contact details. It's about the only thing all the booksellers have always agreed on - on other matters, getting booksellers to agree is like herding cats!

Castle Street is newly re-surfaced and painted now. It took a couple of days longer than planned, but it looks good.

The busker outside HSBC today is playing Irish jigs on a penny whistle.