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  • A AndyD

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    So I was browsing the charity shops of Durham City, and found that one is moving. Selling off stock, 10 books/cds for a pound, to eliminate moving costs. 10p a book!
    This is the most lovely gardening book, though for the larger English garden, I guess it can be applied anywhere.
    MrsA is our gardener, I prune the trees, hedge, lawn. This is an inspirational book however, beautifully painted plans to go with photos...
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    BeeLady
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    @AndyD This book makes my heart sing!

    "Wealth is like manure; spread it around and it makes everything grow; pile it up, and it stinks."
    MillCityGrows.org

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      Mark
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      I started reading this but, I found myself with little time to do so because I am practicing so much! 😊

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      • S Steve Miller

        Also from a thrift store, this book chronicles wooden boat building in/around Lake Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, 1900 through about 1970.

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        Beautiful things they are, and the photographs are wonderful!

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        AndyD
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        @Steve-Miller
        There are still a couple of launch builders here in England.
        https://landamores.co.uk/project/slipper-launch/

        Ventosa viri restabit

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          jon-nyc
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          Listening to this:

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          I finished the English history book and am still (re)reading Shirer’s Rise and Fall.

          Funny to go back and forth between Weimar and Hitler’s Germany.

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          • A AndyD

            @Steve-Miller
            There are still a couple of launch builders here in England.
            https://landamores.co.uk/project/slipper-launch/

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            @AndyD

            Beautiful things!

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              AndyD
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              In London last weekend I got these in an Oxfam bookshop

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              Today I trawled four charity shops in a nearby town and spent a colossal £5.50 for these (six are really nice, including one on watercolour for MrsA, an interesting flower ID-by-month when they flower; the one with Harold King is a Folio Society from 1973 on the Bayeux Tapestry with complete photography, though Shining Sands will be my first read)

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              Ventosa viri restabit

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                CHAS
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                Dominion:How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
                Just started reading. Impressed so far. Holland is not accepted by many academic historians. Some like his work.

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                "If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it between s**t and syphilis in the dictionary."-David Sedaris

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                  Caroline: Little House, Revisited by Sarah Miller.

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                  I read the Little House books a long time ago. I know part of the story is problematic (colonialism, racism), it’s still fascinating. In this case, the story is told from Caroline’s viewpoint (the mother). It’s tender and sweetly told, so far.

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                  • A AndyD

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                    So I was browsing the charity shops of Durham City, and found that one is moving. Selling off stock, 10 books/cds for a pound, to eliminate moving costs. 10p a book!
                    This is the most lovely gardening book, though for the larger English garden, I guess it can be applied anywhere.
                    MrsA is our gardener, I prune the trees, hedge, lawn. This is an inspirational book however, beautifully painted plans to go with photos...
                    20260311_063654.jpg
                    20260311_070228.jpg
                    20260311_063906.jpg
                    20260311_071345.jpg
                    20260311_064112.jpg

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                    @AndyD said:

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                    So I was browsing the charity shops of Durham City, and found that one is moving. Selling off stock, 10 books/cds for a pound, to eliminate moving costs. 10p a book!
                    This is the most lovely gardening book, though for the larger English garden, I guess it can be applied anywhere.
                    MrsA is our gardener, I prune the trees, hedge, lawn. This is an inspirational book however, beautifully painted plans to go with photos...
                    20260311_063654.jpg
                    20260311_070228.jpg
                    20260311_063906.jpg
                    20260311_071345.jpg
                    20260311_064112.jpg

                    I wonder why England has the best gardens with maybe Italy a close second followed by France. Or maybe it's a matter of personal taste and I'm biased in favor of England because I'm a native English speaker. Who knows. Beautiful book. Congrats.

                    'But as they said in one of the later Rocky movies, "Time...it's undefeated.".-- Mik

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                    • J jon-nyc

                      My current bedtime/sofa/airplane read (a third reading for me):

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                      My current audiobook:

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                      I’m a glutton for punishment. After the endurance test of Twain I pick up two 1000+ page reads.

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                      @jon-nyc Get a Kindle sample of the English book. May do the same for the Third Reich book.

                      "If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it between s**t and syphilis in the dictionary."-David Sedaris

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