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This is not a particularly rare book but I am always ashamed that I have to stifle a childish giggle whenever a copy comes in.

I have no idea whether it’s the guy on the left with his arms in the air and his sporran in full swing or the (completely panelled) one on the right with his arse hanging out of his kilt, but this cover illustration from Traditional Dancing in Scotland never fails to amuse me.

Have your finances ever reached a point so parlous that you look at your shopping list and think 'Do I really need trousers?' Mine just have. Brace yourselves for a trouserless summer.

The Sage of Ardwell has spoken.

First customer of the day, Hitoshi from Japan.

Email this morning - 'as a leading bookstore, you may have noticed the increased demand for the Atlas of Palestine 1917-1966 in English.' Erm, no. Unless 'increased demand' requires a profound philosophical examination of existence, nature, and the role of zero in mathematics.

Wigtown market is back. With piper.

Spent a while this morning trying to repair this antique globe with cable ties and gorilla glue. I’m sure there’s some sort of erudite and witty metaphor about the state of the world but I’m too lazy/stupid to think of anything.

If you’re thinking bungalow means pebble dashed eyesore in suburban Swindon, think again.

Never mind your new fangled Candy Crush and Angry Birds. We had this.

Delivered from Helensburgh yesterday - 60 boxes, largely military history. Thank you Sarah.

New thing, trying to convince customers to do a short video at the till. This is Karen whose friend Jackie is too scared to come to the shop. She’s right to be. I’m waiting for you, Jackie.

Help required - facsimile reprint of Songs of Innocence and Experience, no publisher’s details or date. Guessing it’s about 1860 - 1890.

A while ago I sent a copy of my first book to Abdul, one of the people who regularly calls me with great offers. Sadly he gave me a fake address and it was returned, so if there’s an Abdul out there who makes nuisance calls and wants a free copy they’re welcome to it.

Coming up this weekend, Wigtown Spring Festival. Ignore Sandy, he was in a bad mood. It will be great, come along.

📷 📷 📷 📷 📷 Post settings Post preview If you come to Wigtown this weekend you can see and hear Shona MacLean at noon on Saturday, Karen Campbell at 3, Sharon Blackie at noon on Sunday, Emma Healey at 3 on Sunday and a huge amount more.

Ooooh, this is pure bookseller porn - Gollancz uniform Pratchett Discworld set.

Some extremely useful Norwegian phrases.

Attempting a new disastrous business venture, discount codes for stuff on the shop website. Hopefully if you write May10 in the special offer box thing on the-bookshop.com you should get a 10% discount this weekend.

Many thanks to Audrey who came to the shop yesterday with three bags of erotica including this.