h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Avalanches is about it. You start reading at 6 and battle with one book - and all of a sudden you need a bigger flat because there´s no wall space left for new bookshelves.

Embrace the avalanche. Learn to mine for books.

http://bonoboworld.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-favourite-shop.html

Ey, gerroffit. Swimming The Channel has been done, but getting home with fifty books on my back and fifty more in tow?

Much better than this place I visited last weekend. Far too organised! How are you meant to find anything when its all shelved alphabetically?

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http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/

not Monkey, alphabethically - German labour exchange got reorganized. Instead of by profession you are filed by name.

When you're trying to pull together a quick meal from what you've got in the pantry (putting off the shopping ) sauerkraut is great - just fry it together with some egg noodles, with a dollop of sour cream on top.

I second Patrick OBrien's books, with enthusiasm.

But Now lookee here, Ntm. Leave off damaging Barter Books, eh? I used them for years. They even bought a pile of RD condensed jobbies off me (found in an unregarded corner when moving back to the area).
What's more, I found Toynbee's single volume illustrated, there though I'm getting the feeling it'll remain unread.

darn its lunch time...
*goes off to forage*

That's what I really miss about my old workplace - we had a secondhand bookshop on site and staff were allowed to borrow any books they liked. Of course, we did always end up keeping them and having to pay our tab every month, but since they were usually all well under a pound...

Hmm. Dunno. Barter *should* be Hog Heaven for me. On paper, it could almost have been designed for me.

Only...I never seem to find anything to buy. Whereas after mining through the avalanches at Voltaire and Rousseau I come out laden with armfuls of books I never even new I wanted. Its all down to their Standard Serendipitous Filing unSystem. I also like their defiantly unhorizontal floor.

Barter do an excellent fruitcake, on the other hand.

I can only imagine that you suffer from indiscipline - mind like a butterfly.

Ooh, they do fruitcake now? Must have got tired of making those bikkies. Coffee's not bad either (for those parts).

>>I can only imagine that you suffer from indiscipline - mind like a butterfly.

You have me to a T. The world needs some gadflies amongst all you plodders.

I have no interest in sauerkraut, or anything else pickled. I just don't understand why someone would take edible things and *poison* them with vinegar.
Sorry, but I just find vinegar vile, under all circumstances. I have a Pavlovian response to it now, such that I won't touch even salads with no dressing.
Just please, please, if your or or has gone off, take the hint and THROW IT AWAY!

Sauerkraut involves no vinegar. It's not pickled, it's fermented.

Yup - theres much more to pickling than vinegar:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/approved_entry/A3100168

(btw...I dont think A Nos work on Barlesque. Or do they? A3100168

>>It's not pickled, it's fermented


nnn...it *is* pickled - but in the lactic acid produced by its own fermentation.

Well, I suppose. But my way of putting it might get him to try it. It certainly doesn't taste of vinegar. It's not even really sour.

I wonder, JB aka RT...have you tried vinegars other than the bog-standard chippie malt? (or even the ghastly ~Non-Brewed Condiment~?)

Im one of those awful middle class trendies who has more than one vinegar in my cupboard. From memory, at the moment I've got at least the following, and maybe more:

- Kikkoman seasoned rice vinegar (my default for salad dressings)

- Ikea Lingonberry vinegar. (Very tasty - but you do have to assemble the bottle yourself)

- Red wine vinegar (perfect in small quantities on a tomato salad)

- A white whine vinegar into which ive stuck a bunch of leftover tarragon (nice added to the water when poaching eggs)

I *dont* go for (what Delia Smith strangely seems to call) boars mick vinegar. Its ubiquitous these days, but it has to be very expensive before its any good.

"Ikea Lingonberry vinegar. (Very tasty - but you do have to assemble the bottle yourself)"

balsamic is very nice if you reduce it into a syrup mmmm perfect with omelets and salids