Back in the Bookshop

Lots of people around today in the bookshop. At the desk, I sold a Philip Pullman book to a little girl who said he was her favourite author.
"So, if you had a daemon, what would it be?" I asked.
"A polar bear!" she said.

Upstairs, a man was looking for books about Thomas a Becket. He said he was descended from one of the three knights who killed Thomas! "Certainly the one who struck the first blow," he said. His daughter wanted to find out more about the knights and what happened to them, so I told him about the Pandy Inn in Dorstone - one of the three knights is reputed to have retired there when he came back from doing his penance in the Holy Land.