we went to hay-on-wye, home to about two hundred zillion secondhand bookshops and i only came home with three books. remarkable restraint or what?

darren decided that i was ‘overfaced’. i didn’t want to go nuts and buy everything in sight so i was only picking up books that a) i really wanted to read soon, or b) that i knew were out of print and really wanted to read quite soon. the handful of hours we’d given ourselves to look about weren’t enough to search out the best of the bunch. we’ll go back armed with lists i think. random browsing was a bit too much.