"Three hundred and sixty six feet!" proclaimed one regular customer as he walked through the door. The last time I saw him, he'd come in to find out what the height of St Paul's Cathedral is from one of our reference books, and was delighted to have found the information.
A short while later, another local chap came in. A couple of years ago, he was showing a party of Chinese people around Hay. One of them was a professional photographer, and he is about to stage an exhibition in Southern China somewhere. Part of his exhibition will be some of the pictures he took of various bookshop workers around Hay, so his local contact was going around town with the photos on his mobile, asking for the names of the people he didn't know. I didn't know some of them, either, which surprised me - I thought I knew everyone, at least by appearance, if not name! Two of the staff of the Cinema Bookshop are featured, and Dale from Broad Street Books, who wasn't very sure about his image being used, even if it was in South China.
And finally, a lady who was actually looking for a book! She wanted the biography of Elizabeth Montgomery, who played Samantha in the 1960s comedy series Bewitched - but we didn't have it.
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