Diary summary week ending 23rd july

[brigidmac]

Images are a great way to communicate too .
There is a system that is used with people on autistic spectrum called PECS.

How sad that those valuable reference books were thrown out .

Always err on side of caution when throwing things out .

I'm having a clear out now.but wonder if i.ll regret giving away some thing's .

[ThrelfallYorky]

You can always rely on the fact that a few days after you've thrown something out, you WILL need it! I've just proved it, in an odd way - ages ago I'd lent a book to a friend ( who, whilst he always agrees he's got it, and will "bring it over next time" has never returned it) and I REALLY needed it to give some information to another friend. Eventually I rang the person who has said book, and rather sarcastically asked him if he could look a particular reference up in it, for me......
He couldn't find it.
'Nuff said?
TY

[Viktoria]

I borrowed a lovely book from a friend at college.
A lovely story of a stepmother who eventually ,by kind patience won her step children over .
Their mother had died.
The girl who lent it to me was bought it by her stepmother whom she had grown to love.
When we finished our time at college I had no further contact with the book’s owner.
I truly believed I had returned it .
However quite some time later I found it where it ought not to have been.
My older sister had tidied my shelf where I kept my college books ,she put it on the bookshelf with other books .
Why she tidied my stuff  is anyone’s guess!
I was really upset as it meant such a lot to my classmate.
I had no idea where she lived and never managed to return it.
I feel guilty still.
Viktoria.

[Calderlass]

I must admit that I never lend or borrow books if I can avoid it. I hate the thought of damaging or forgetting to return a book. Just as bad when a friend offers you a book to read that they have really enjoyed and think you will too!  Awkward when you find that the said book is not something that you would have chosen to read.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Sadly, as a "bookaholic" buying books almost like breathing, I've probably lent a small library out over the years - equally sadly, I alwaysa remember exactly WHO I loaned books to - but equally sadly, they don't always seem to remember they have / had them.
Terribly wet weather, yet again. Even the frogs and newts out in the garden  must be wearing wellies today
TY

[Jebber]

As another  avid reader,  I now give books away rather than lend them to anyone. Having reached an age when I need to declutter, I have stopped buying books, unless it is a reference book I need to keep. I still satisfy my reading addiction by using the online library. Plenty of choice of both  fiction and non fiction, plus new releases.

I do the same for newspapers, much easier on the finances and the environment.