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Archaeological Books
Oct. 9th, 2001 02:29 pmI have a long list of books that Grainne needs for her Masters course. None of them seem to be in print. Grargh. However, I have found a decent online archaeology bookshop (Oxbow Books), and Waterstones are making enquiries about some of them too.
If you have, or know someone who has, books about archaeology that you'd like to sell second hand, please, let me know.
Jacket modification
I got a new leather jacket while in Dublin after the wedding; £45 second hand. It's plain brown leather, waist length, zips all the way up to my neck, and the sleeves aren't too long. Also, it had an inside pocket. This is good; I lost my lovely blue leather jacket when we moved house, and my lovely pink and purple swirly ankle-length skirt too.
I spent a day adding two pockets to the jacket, though. The lining is too weak to hold handstitching (it's kind of brittle), so I toddled down to John Lewis, the department store, and bought two readymade pockets (it's amazing how much you can cheat these days...) and some fabric glue. Now I have three inside pockets. One has a zip and is just big enough for a passport and a small wallet. One has no zip and is big enough for my bulging wallet full of cards and bits of paper and junk, and the last one has no zip and is big enough for a paperback book and my glasses and mobile phone. Hurrah! No more handbags.
Errands
This came in very handy today when I was running boring errands. I had to go to the bank to pay 3 bills and lodge a cheque. The queue was so long they sent a girl with a rubber stamp to go to the queue and deal with everyone who was just paying in cheques, which I thought showed a great deal of unbanklike common sense.
Then I went to Waterstones in Reading town centre. It's in an old church building on the main shopping street, which has been pedestrianised (woo!). I went up the stairs to the first floor, which has the History, PopSci, and Poetry in it, among other things. I resisted going onto the poetry gallery - you can lean over the railings and read your book, looking down at the people in Gardening and Natural History on the ground floor - and handed my book list to the girl behind the counter.
It was such a long list that twice I turned to someone waiting behind me and told them to interrupt me to ask their questions. But the very helpful girl in Waterstones made a list of 5 books she thinks she'll be able to find for me; she'll contact the publishers and phone me when she knows. Probably today, maybe not until tomorrow.
I love customer service.
If you have, or know someone who has, books about archaeology that you'd like to sell second hand, please, let me know.
Jacket modification
I got a new leather jacket while in Dublin after the wedding; £45 second hand. It's plain brown leather, waist length, zips all the way up to my neck, and the sleeves aren't too long. Also, it had an inside pocket. This is good; I lost my lovely blue leather jacket when we moved house, and my lovely pink and purple swirly ankle-length skirt too.
I spent a day adding two pockets to the jacket, though. The lining is too weak to hold handstitching (it's kind of brittle), so I toddled down to John Lewis, the department store, and bought two readymade pockets (it's amazing how much you can cheat these days...) and some fabric glue. Now I have three inside pockets. One has a zip and is just big enough for a passport and a small wallet. One has no zip and is big enough for my bulging wallet full of cards and bits of paper and junk, and the last one has no zip and is big enough for a paperback book and my glasses and mobile phone. Hurrah! No more handbags.
Errands
This came in very handy today when I was running boring errands. I had to go to the bank to pay 3 bills and lodge a cheque. The queue was so long they sent a girl with a rubber stamp to go to the queue and deal with everyone who was just paying in cheques, which I thought showed a great deal of unbanklike common sense.
Then I went to Waterstones in Reading town centre. It's in an old church building on the main shopping street, which has been pedestrianised (woo!). I went up the stairs to the first floor, which has the History, PopSci, and Poetry in it, among other things. I resisted going onto the poetry gallery - you can lean over the railings and read your book, looking down at the people in Gardening and Natural History on the ground floor - and handed my book list to the girl behind the counter.
It was such a long list that twice I turned to someone waiting behind me and told them to interrupt me to ask their questions. But the very helpful girl in Waterstones made a list of 5 books she thinks she'll be able to find for me; she'll contact the publishers and phone me when she knows. Probably today, maybe not until tomorrow.
I love customer service.
