trying to light the #bookshop fire using bindery waste and all the sticks last year's tourists' dogs dropped, whille being put back in their cars what a way to run a business

for Lo! it happened that upon the 28th day of the month of Caesar Augustus, I didst sojourn unto the Posting Office in the village of Callander and purChase of a stamp. rendering our quarterly accounts with Biblical accuracy, and slowly losing the will to live

Sal: could you replace the tape on this Oor Wullie book? binder: (sighs) only in #Scotland is this a profession where you start at the top and work your way down

🎼oo R da bookbin daRs, da bookbind Rs R WE!!🎤

actor: are you *!$ K*** the bookbinder? I want to buy some of your jokes hubby: there's no copyright on jokes actor: I know that, but even so I'd like to keep things straight. how about fifty quid? hubby: ok. £50. which jokes do you want? actor: ones you haven't told anybody yet

pals? mates? no, some Victorian anthologist had to call his tome CONTEMPORARIES OF BURNS and expect us label gilders to get on with it 3 hours, that took me

hubby: tell Aly Bain I'm thinking of calling this new banjo tune I've written Dualling Highways fiddle player: oh goody! Is it a jig or a reel? hubby: it's a slow air. A very slow air.

1958 wis a Broons year, no an Oor Wullie year hings ye neid tae ken so's no tae apeer a totul numpty in front o SERIUS Scots collecktirs

oh dear, Put a copy of The Callander and Oban Railway in the shop window, and watching a three-man sprint to the autobanks and back to fetch me the fourteen quid

today's bestselling author: Machiavelli I've been waiting four popes, 3 lairds and 5 changes of local government to be able to say that

love the way our long-haired white cat makes herself scarce when we are scrub-hoovering the upstairs burgandy carpets. #bookselling

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up half the night finishing off an absolutely pukka art deco binding of a 1920's book on poverty

met at the back gate by a delegation of happy escaped hens, who wanted put back in the henrun for sundown

guys, if I want to put a 1792 first edition of Carolan's harp music as the centrepiece of our #WorldGaelicWeek window display, then right in the middle of my window display it will go

Ma frien Mathew Fitt fae ScotsHoose Yaldi sent me this stoater o a cartoon fae the latest edeition o the Eejit Street comic for bairns. While I gree hailhertedly wi the sentiments expressed, I'm no sae shuir aboot the wey I'm depicted & telt him that ma hairdresser micht sue!

hubby: what's the chances of us having to bind two books on #Leeds, one at the back of the other, when our shop is 300 miles away? Sal: at least you won't have to re-typeset the word Leeds hubby: the first one of them was titled in Latin🤔