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Online orders: 7

Orders found: 6

Among the orders this morning was one for Bellenden’s two-volume The History and Chronicles of Scotland—£225 to a customer in Canada. A good number of the books on Scottish history we list online seem to end up in Canada.

At 9.45 a customer came to the counter and said, ‘Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck. First editions. Where?’

When I took today’s orders over to the post office, I made a point of saying an effusively friendly ‘Hello’ to William, who reluctantly reciprocated with an obviously grudging reply. His previously benevolent mood has clearly abandoned him.

Customer: ‘I’m looking for a copy of The History of Rutherglen and East Kilbride, and a copy of the first Statistical Account of Scotland.’ We have both in stock, at reasonable prices. He bought neither.

Tonight was Burns Night, so I closed the shop early and went to the co-op to buy haggis, turnip and potatoes, and a bottle of whisky for a Burns supper. Carol-Ann came round with haggis pakoras. She drew the line at drinking whisky, but I had a couple of large glasses of Laphroaig.

Till Total £133.49

8 Customers