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Nearly there. Nearly there. Nearly there. Our daily chant for the last month. We are now really really nearly there.
Bit of a panic yesterday though on calling the removal men to confirm our final flit today - they have no such booking. Mmm system problem perhaps. Upshot - they are coming on Saturday. Hurrah. Anyone […]

Hello,
Even my blogs have an echo now at 109.
412 boxes have been dispached and there is one final uplift scheduled for Friday.
Next Monday the Library will start its new life at 81 Parnie Street. Checked the space today with our new placement Tania and all looked good. Thankfully, the inexplicably huge block of polystyrene has […]

‘…that’s why we don’t eat their pies’ was the rather lame ‘joke’ on the shop floor when one of my big brothers worked at Walls sausage and pie factory many years ago. Well, the walls at 109 now really do have ears - lots of them growing at an alarming rate. To explain, any level […]

Our next door neighbours at 109 have been Klass Leather shop and Mitchells Amusement Arcade. Mitchells are located on the ground floor of the magnificent, crumbling, neoclassical Panopticon Theatre. Stan Laurel debuted here as did Cary Grant but of late its greatest claim to fame was to appear on Scottish TV as a venue for […]

Hello again to the patient readers of the Liblog. The metaphorical tides of journals and shelves, files and books have been swept up and reconstituted into the lovingly labelled, serried ranks of boxes (280 and counting…) at 81 Parnie Street, our new light and bright decant space.
The literal tides of rainwater into the old space […]

Book Boxes; the clue is in the name. Boxes that are made for packing books. Not boxes that are made to pack archive files. And you can tell this is the case because after 10 files have been packed, there is a square gap too large to leave unemptied (because the box would collapse) and […]

Well, some of them are empty…

Does anyone else think that this move is proceeding like it’s being driven by peristalsis? I don’t even think we’ve managed to get past the stomach yet. I find an anology of anything to do with food, connected with the library somehow appropriate. Lets just hope that the end product of this move is a […]

Coming in today was the first time that I could make out the stove. I bumped into the removal men coming in. Well, perhaps the use of the word ‘men’ is a bit stretched. It was more like one removal man and one removal boy, but the boxes that have been packed have been moved […]

…the video camera? Has anybody seen the parcel tape? Has anybody seen the elastic bands? Has anybody seen the camera - no not the video camera, I’ve found that, the other one that takes the photos? Has anybody seen the scissors? Has anybody seen Helen - What?