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Lovely first visit to Scrivener’s Bookshop in Buxton. Five floors, 40,000 second-hand books, now minus one or two. (Week-End Wodehouse for me.)
@pc_bain @bookstodon beautiful building! Looks like something from Harry Potter almost! 
@jromanowska @bookstodon
Much of Buxton town looks like that! Beautiful inside too with a creaky old spiralling staircase from cellar to attic and a comfy chair in each room of books.
Buxton and Wodehouse, yeah. There used to be a local bus No 18 that for some reason went all the way from Keele all through the Peak district up to Sheffield, wirhout change. Sometime we stopped at Bakewell, sometimes at Buxton. And Wodehouse is life. I posted a passage from Jeeves takes Charge a while ago; will post another. Arcadia.
@the_roamer
Wodehouse never fails to cheer me up and Buxton is always a wonderful trip. Pretty stormy and dramatic this time.
@pc_bain @bookstodon
I have somehow not been there, despite growing up in Derbyshire. Must add to list!
(Scarthin Books in Cromford is well worth a visit, if you've not already - pretty tiny but stuffed to the rafters with both new and old books. Also, homity pie in the cafe.)
@coprolite9000
Definitely worth a good look round. Thanks for the tip on Scarthin Books. Hope to pay it a visit some day but may have to skip the homity pie.
@pc_bain @bookstodon Fine choice, anything Wodehouse will be fun
@timrichards
Yes, always is. A nice addition to a growing collection.
@pc_bain @bookstodon You were very restrained.
Weeks into my first full time job in the 80s, I was sent to London from Australia for a sales expo, lugging an unusually large suitcase.
Emptied of brochures and samples, was horrified when my enthusiastic purchases from unimaginably well-stocked London bookstores saw the suitcase weigh 43kg and would cost more than my airfare in excess baggage fees.
Fortunately, the airline staff member was an avid reader and put the bag through at the lowest fee possible, which was affordable even after only two pay cheques.
@colinfry666
Oh dear. Not at all good for the baggage situation but thanks for the laugh! I can get overwhelmed by too much choice so happy to find a Wodehouse section and pick one to fill a gap.
@Bishopjoey
Unlocked! (Once they opened the door at noon.)