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Nicky opened the shop, so I spent the day repairing things like loose door handles and painting skirting boards.

We sold a book called Our Friend the Poodle online. Shortly after I’d found it, a customer came in with a box of books to sell. It was mainly paperback fiction, but there was a first edition of Three Men in a Boat. This isn’t a rare book—a decent copy sells for around £50—but it was one of my favourite books when I was a teenager, so I gave her £30 for it and put it in my own collection. The Readers’ Retreat group left to head back to Shropshire after lunch.

David, a journalist from the Free Press (one of the local newspapers), called for an interview about the book spirals and the complaint lodged to the planning department about them. I was careful not to paint a negative picture of the planners and shoot myself in the foot.

After the shop closed, I dismantled the shelves in the gallery (the largest room in the shop) and painted the wall which Callum had insulated before Christmas. I didn’t have time to paint it then, so I had just put the shelves back over the drying plaster. I managed to get paint everywhere. I’ll put the shelves back up tomorrow.

Till Total £160

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