Birds scattered, as I opened the door, and I galloped in slippers, waving my toothbrush, across the lawn.
"Stop! Stop!" I yelled but he did not hear. It'll be another month before the van comes here again so I can change my books.
Must take this opportunity to praise BBC Radio Four's production of Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles. The episode that was broadcast last Sunday afternoon had me enraptured. Will the aristocratic Cambridge student and the doctor's daughter, overcome the heartless opposition to their romance? I can hardly wait for next week's episode.
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I remember the library van.
1950s post-war build council housing estate on the outskirts of Plymouth. it was lovely when the library van arrived and I could choose new books.
Those were also the days when we phoned in our grocery order once a week to a shop in the city centre and they delivered to the house.
Eventually people managed to afford cars and so everybody went to where the books and shops were, and the local deliveries stopped.
A touch of insomnia early this morning, so I listened to BBC World Service radio. Apart from interesting things about increased CO2 reducing nutrients in common food plants (article in Nature) and concerns in Argentina about GM herbicide-resistant soya crops allowing massive use of glyphosates and a suspicion that the herbicides are causing an increase in cancers and birth defects (just a suspicion at this stage...)...
There was an item about a retired Italian teacher who has set up a mobile library service using a 3-wheeled motorbike (bike and side-car?) and who travels around the impoverished villages in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy. I need to look for that on the web
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The Italian mobile library:
http://inhabitat.com/retired-teacher-spreads-the-love-of-reading-with-hand-built-library-on-wheels/library-truck4/
Jan
Thanks!
Your comments made me smile. Hope you have a pleasant day.
La Biblioteca Mobile
Mi piace molto. Disegno pittoresco.
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Prego
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I tried to find the sound clip on BBC but failed
. It was a lovely interview and the music he plays to announce his arrival in each village is wonderful, circus march type music 
You'd have difficulty missing that mobile library 
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Jan
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Did you follow the link to his site in italian language?
http://www.ilbibliomotocarro.com/
Grazie Molto!
Avro letto domini mattina! I miss my Italian lessons! Re; the motorcycle and sidecar; my Dad had a combination in the forties and early fifties. Mum and I used to ride in the attachment to Grandma's in Cheshire from Essex, by which time we felt canned.