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Library Bar

This is the Library Bar at the Lanesborough Hotel. Let me just run those two words by you again. Library. Bar. Could there be a more perfect place? (No reason for this post, just gratuitous library p0rn.) Photo source.

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Writer Pro

I’ve just started using Writer Pro for the very first time. I’ve been using various bits of writing software over the years, namely Scrivener, but Writer Pro offers something more useful: minimalism, the ability to focus on one sentence at a time by fading the rest away, and highlighting the frequency of adjectives, adverbs and […]

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A Closed Bookshop

There are less than a handful of good secondhand bookshops in Nottingham. But there was one – Geoff Blore’s Bookshop – that I used to frequent every couple of months. If you got there on a Saturday, you’d probably end up being served by a man who gave you plenty of discount for no apparent […]