OT: What I got yesterday

So yesterday was Falkirk District Libraries annual books sale, something that has been going on in the area for about thirty years. Truth to tell, they have declined badly over the past few years - the labraries in the area all have a perpetual sale going on of used stock so the material in the sale isn't that great. I actually thought about not going because I have piles of unread books from previosu sales but I wennt anyway. Regular sale goers know that, tucked away in a corner, they usually have a few boxes of CD's priced 50p each and yesterday, that's where I went first. I picked out a handful and was about to move on to the books when one of the staff came up and said that, for some complicated reason to do with tills and sales tax, they weren't actually allowed to sell the CDS.

So they were giving them away free...

I came away with just under 50 - an eclectic bunch from Burt Baccarach to Savage Garden, The Fureys to Anastacia, Supergrass to Erasure...and to bring this back On Topic, a CD called The Crime Scene" featuring music from Crime Film and TV including I Spy, Dragnet, Harlem Nocturne and the Peter Gunn Suite.

I also bought four books, all non fiction, non crime related.

And then I discovered that a local church was having a book sale though there wasn't a lot to interest me except a copy of that "Chinatown Death Cloud book and a couple more CD's.

Total Haul 50CD's and six books. Total cost £2.30. That's what I call a good days shopping.... :)
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