I'm Way Too Excited About My Books!!

TODAY, I went to my favourite used book store. It was fantastic. They had a sale on.
It was bliss.
This store is called The Book Farm, and they have beautiful books. Outside, there's this building called The Book Barn, where everything is 50p. The sale was that, but twice as big. There were hundreds and hundreds of  alluring books. Oh so fantastic!
I went, of course planning to buy 4 or 5 books... which didn't happen. I left the premises with 13 charming books, and I want to show them to you! 




 This gorgeous copy of Macbeth was printed in 1896. There are notes on most of the pages, from the original owner, in beautiful cursive that speaks of a time more than a few decades ago.

This adorable French school book was printed in 1915. 

 This copy of Huckleberry Finn once belonged to Cowplain County Secondary Boys' School.

 This copy of The Works of Tennyson (who happens to be my favourite poet) was printed in 1884, and has pressed flowers in it, from who knows how long ago.

 This fantastic copy of Shakespeare's Commentaries was printed in 1877. Oh my, it is too beautiful for words.

 Guy Mannering, by Sir Walter Scott, and
  The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope.

 This adorable "Sewing in Colour", printed in 1969.

 

The Apocrypha, with an inscription in the front from 1941.

 And finally, A Century of Sea Stories, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,
which was printed in 1972. 

Overall, I am very happy with today's finds. Very. 

Sometime soon I would like to post about my favourite books on my shelves, but we'll see about that another day.

Have you found any exciting books recently? I would love to hear about them! 

xx

Two Extra Hours of Reception;

So now what...? I've been on reception since two, and I was supposed to be off half an hour ago, but then I found out that the other person who was going to take over actually isn't around today... so I guess I have to stay here for an extra two hours... yippee. I have a headache and some Ibuprofen, but no water... shoot. What should I do?

I read Les Miserables for the first hour and a half, but I don't really feel like doing that anymore. Humm. This is a list of random names that I like.

1. Tempest; is my favourite. Love it.

2. Forest; is beautiful.

3. Revelin;

4. Marius; makes me happy.

5. Tanzania; Tanzie

6. Emmerson; beautifully classic, yet not very used.

7. Emery; not like the band.

8. Cayenne; like the pepper.

I am drinking very stale water; yum.

9. Declan;

10. Maeve; very Irish.

11. Horizon; who cares if it's cheesy?

12. Jasper; very underused.

13. Africa; as in the continent.

14. Isabella; not because of Twilight.

15. Ankara; as in the capital of Turkey

Enough nameness for the time being.

Now what? I still have an hour to go. Shoot, I feel like I've typed this exact same thing before... Don't get me wrong, I love doing reception, it's just that it starts to draaaaag a little after two or three hours...

SO, weird, I'm leaving for Spain in like, two and a half (ish) weeks! Bizzarro,...,...,... ...

I still haven't gotten my head around that. T'will be my first time out of an airport in mainland Europe! Yay! I have been on the ground in Europe, but only inside of airport grounds. So it doesn't really count. I've been to the airports in

The Netherlands four times

Germany once

and Denmark once

But YAY I get to leave the airport! In Spain AND Belgium! Yippee! I'm slightly excited. I'm also very excited because I get to go with some of my favourite people ever :-) Our team at the moment consists of 9 DTSers (Cheryl, Kati, Ashleigh, Stephanie, Catherine, Hester, Rach(a?)el, Sam and Josh), three staff members (Taryn, Matt and my dad) and Me. And, hopefully my mom and brother will be visiting sometime for a few weeks at least. Maybe the whole second half. Sweet.

You know what, I really love that tree right in the middle of the hedgeness. It's really beautiful. Especially without any leaves on it.

Wow, if I keep on typing on here for the next hour until I'm done with reception, this post is going to get reaalllly long.

Yay! I finished almost all of my Christmas shopping. I adore amazon. Amazon is officially my second best friend.

I am getting increasingly more tired.

We're having a Christmas party tonight! Yay! Going to hang out in reception, listen to Christmas music, eat cookies, drink hot chocolate, hang out and decorate the Christmas tree. Yippee! I'm very excited. And we have a fire place with fire in it, which makes the whole world a better place :-D

Did you know that Stephen Fry is my absolute hero? He's probably actually one of my favourite people on the planet. Other than the people that I actually know. He is an absolute legend in every possible way. Hey, there's only 40 minutes of reception left! Yay!

Maybe I willl read another chapter of Les Mis. So should you. In fact, everyone should. Here-

http://www.arcamax.com/fiction/b-1565

There you go; happy birthday.

Yay! Alex is going to refill my now cold hot water bottle for me. I love you dearest brother!

Except when he came back with it he tried to keep it. But he did eventually give it back, so I still love him.

Finished the eleventh chapter of Les Miserables. Only 15 minutes more. I think I will finish this now, so I don't end up counting down to the second I can go. Awesome well, have a lovely life my dear fellow human beings. The end. Fin. Au Revoir...

Bye.

This weeks drama :D

Ahhh!!! I am soooooo freaking excited right nowww!!!! Aaaah!! YeaaaaH! So, for one thing I am about to go see Twilight tonight with my dad and Megan, which is pretty much freaking exciting!!! And, my parents just gave Anna and I our Christmas present early, and guess what!! We are going to see Romeo and Juliet at at the Royal Shakespearean Theatre in Stratford tomorrow!!!!! Yayyy! I am soooo excited!!! Ahhh! Yeah! This is so amazing, because Twilight is my favorite book, and Romeo and Juliet is my favorite Shakespeare play :) Wow...this is a great week for me dramatically :) Miss you!!

-Abbey