Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Buying books?
Just a thought, if you are out shopping for Xmas. If you want to keep a good bookshop in Swanage (for new and secondhand books), do please support Blanchards in Station Road. While Oxfam may do many good things around the world, their books are donated, their staff are volunteers and I believe the shop pays no rates. Hardly a level playing field. It would be a shame if its book shop drove Blanchards out of business, and then if Oxfam pulled out, where would we be?
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Amazon.com.
But you can't beat a REAL bookshop where you can browse and look and feel and compare and ask advice and talk about things before you buy.
I agree. But should Blanchard's and Oxfam go, there is Amazon.com.
Borders in Bournemouth couldn't make it. Rent and rates make it difficult to compete against online book (and music) websites.
Just a point. I like Blanchard's.
The BBC's Radio Solent website reports Purbeck Council as exhorting residents to recycle christmas cards.
It quotes Councillor Martyn Colvey saying: "Cards can be recycled in January at WH Smith, Marks & Spencer and TK Maxx stores."
It seems to me to be somewhat daft as a "go green" message.
There are none of these national retail chains within the district.
The nearest are in the centre of Poole, some miles from the very easternmost part of Purbeck.
Perhaps the council is in some way trying to suggest that we do our shopping outside of the district.
Maybe that depends on how your mind works, to me, they're suggesting that if we recycle our cards at specific retailers then it'll help the the Woodland Trust.
Where I shop is my choice!
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