Happy World Book Day

by

We wish you all a wonderful World Book Day! A day when you can officially do what we do all the time anyway: love books, buy books, read books, and stack books. Today we celebrate this cultural treasure that transports us to other countries without leaving the sofa, and lets us travel through centuries without owning a time machine.
Siri says: ‘Reading is magic – just without a wand.’
We wish you all the enviable state of having more books than time and many new discoveries, interesting authors and gripping stories.

Wir wünschen Euch allen einen wundervollen World Book Day! Einen Tag, an dem man ganz offiziell das tun darf, was wir sowieso ständig tun: Bücher lieben, Bücher kaufen, Bücher lesen, und Bücher stapeln.
Heute feiern wir dieses Kulturgut, das uns in andere Länder trägt, ohne dass wir das Sofa verlassen müssen, das uns durch Jahrhunderte reisen lässt, ohne dass wir eine Zeitmaschine besitzen.
Siri meint: “Lesen ist Magie – nur ohne Zauberstab.”
Wir wünschen Euch allen den erstrebenswerten Zustand, mehr Bücher als Zeit zu haben und viele neue Entdeckungen, interessante Autoren und packende Geschichten.

Siri and Selma hope to finish this library puzzle before midnight. We’ll keep you updated!

When we travel, no church escapes our curious gaze to see if it has any books on offer. Of course, we find a lot of junk there, but hidden among it is often one or two books worth reading. Amongst piles of Chick-Lit, Kb found a book he had always wanted to read, ‘The Discovery of Heaven’ by Dutch author Harry Mulisch. The book is old, from 1992, but it perfectly captures the mood of when Kb was a young man. He had always wanted to read this book and can only agree with the saying that an unread book is a reproach.

Wenn wir reisen, entgeht keine Kirche unserem neugierigen Blick, ob in ihr Bücher angeboten werden. Freilich finden wir dort viel Ramsch, aber dazwischen versteckt sich oft das eine oder andere lesenswerte Buch. So fand Kb zwischen den Mengen von Chick-Lit ein Buch, das er schon immer lesen wollte: “Die Entdeckung des Himmels” des niederländischen Autors Harry Mulisch. Das Buch ist alt, von 1992, aber es gibt bestens die Stimmung wieder, als Kb ein junger Mann war. Er wollte dieses Buch schon immer lesen und kann dem Spruch nur zustimmen, dass ein ungelesenes Buch ein Vorwurf ist.

Here we bought our first book from a machine

We had a similar experience with Elif Shafak’s ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’, which Dina found in a small church in the countryside that smelled so strongly of incense that it took our breath away at first. But the initial breathlessness was worth it. We all read this book and loved it so much that we bought all of Shafak’s books in English on our trip to Manchester. Somehow, Turkish literature fascinates us. Years ago, we found Pamuk’s novel ‘My Name is Red’ in a church. Siri wanted this book because she liked the cover. We all liked the story of the miniaturist from the 16th-century Ottoman Empire so much that we read all of Pamuk’s other books as well.

Ähnlich ging es uns mit Elif Shafaks “There are Rivers in the Sky“, das Dina in einer kleinen Kirche auf dem Lande fand, die derart nach Weihrauch roch, dass es uns zuerst den Atem verschlug. Aber das anfängliche Luftanhalten hatte sich gelohnt. Wir alle lasen dieses Buch und fanden es so toll, dass wir auf unserer Reise in Manchester alle Bücher von Shafak in englischer Sprache kauften. Irgendwie fasziniert uns türkische Literatur. Vor Jahren fanden wir in einer Kirche Pamuks Roman “Mein Name ist Rot“. Siri wollte dieses Buch wegen seines Covers, das ihr gut gefiel. Uns allen gefiel die Geschichte des Miniaturisten aus dem Osmanischen Reich des 16. Jh. so gut, dass wir auch Pamuks anderen Bücher lasen.

Rain in the Peak District as seen from a from five storey antiquarian book shop.

Otherwise, we find our treasures in large English country houses, where the National Trust often sells old books. On each of our trips, we are busy rummaging through dusty, once-beloved books. That’s why the weather doesn’t bother us much. The problems only arise at home, where we have to find shelf space for our treasures.

Ansonsten finden wir unsere Schätze in den großen englischen Landhäusern, wo der National Trust oftmals antiquarische und second hand Bücher verkauft. Bei jeder unserer Reisen sind wir voll damit beschäftigt, in verstaubten vormals geliebten Büchern zu stöbern. Deswegen kann uns das Wetter wenig anhaben. Die Probleme entstehen erst zu Hause, wo wir Regelplatz für unsere Schätze finden müssen.

Nothing is under control -Kb and his books

There is hardly anything better than opening a book and not knowing what to expect. Perhaps a thought that changes everything. Perhaps a sentence that stays with you. Perhaps just a small footnote that sends your mind on a journey around the world.
Our wish for you: may you forget the time while reading, stumble across sentences that change your thinking, and own bookshelves that look slightly overwhelmed.

Es gibt kaum etwas Schöneres, als ein Buch aufzuschlagen und nicht zu wissen, was einen erwartet. Vielleicht ein Gedanke, der alles verändert. Vielleicht ein Satz, der bleibt. Vielleicht nur eine kleine Fußnote, die einen gedanklich auf Weltreise schickt.
Unser Wunsch für Euch: möget Ihr beim Lesen die Zeit vergessen, über Sätze stolpern, die Euer Denken verändern und Regale besitzen, die leicht überfordert aussehen.

From Dina’s collage book, a book is not wasted in our household

With this in mind:
Happy World Book Day!
And may you continue to enjoy reading, collecting, discovering and dreaming.

In diesem Sinne:
Happy World Book Day!
Und weiterhin ganz viel Freude beim Lesen, Sammeln, Entdecken und Träumen.

The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

© text and illustrations, Hanne Siebers & Klausbernd Vollmar, Cley next the Sea, 2026

111 thoughts

  2. Such a lovely post. I have so many books lined up and waiting to be read on my Kindle, but I still prefer real books. With nice covers, lovely crisp pages, and author photos on the back. Sadly, there is no more room for real books in our small house, but I can dream!

    Love as always from Beetley, Pete. X

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Dear Pete

      Room for the books, that’s a problem for every book collector. We regularly go through our shelves and look at which books can be sorted out. But hurts that one has to sort out books. Most of them we put in the shelves of our book stall in Cley church. Have you had a look at it?

      Thanks for commenting.
      With lots of love from the misty coast
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  3. We’re still working on the puzzle so hang on and be patient, please!
    No help from Dina and Masterchen, they disappeared to the kitchen and said they were going to cook supper. However, we can’t smell anything!
    Are Air Fryers no-smelling things? Or have they opened a bottle of wine?
    We are puzzled!
    Siri 😊 Selma 😊 🌟✨🧚🏻‍♀️💫🧚🏻‍♀️

    Liked by 3 people

    Reply

    • Well, we opened a nice bottle of wine to celebrate World Book Day. And anyway, we are not good at puzzles.

      Hanne-Dina 💃 & 🚶‍♂️‍➡️ Klausbernd

      Like

    • Dear Jaqui

      We very well know this feeling.

      We quite often imagined living in Borges’ Library of Babel. Actually, our house is getting more and more like a big library.

      Thanks and cheers
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  6. Ihr Lieben in Cley, ich bin wieder einmal begeistert von all euren tollen Buchvorschlägen und am meisten von “There are Rivers in the Sky”, weil ich dieses Buch erst gestern gekauft habe und mich riesig freue es bald zu lesen. Habt’s gut!:)

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  8. o what a happy stack of books !!! loved this. I have read a few of Pamuk’s books but not this one; I’m off to the library today to see if they have it; I love reading too: currently reading a Joyce Carol Oates collection but it is her latest story ;’Late Love’ that has me entranced: I read it again and again and copy parts out of it into my journal —

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Good morning, dear John

      Pamuk’s book about this miniaturist is one of his early ones (maybe his first novel?).
      Now you made us look for Joyce Carol Oates. Unfortunately, we don’t have her in our private library, but maybe in our bookstall in the church here. Otherwise, we’ll get “Late Love” from Amazon. Max Frisch wrote the novel “Montauk” about a late love, and as Goethe in the West Eastern Divan, he regrets that this love comes too late.

      Happy reading
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  9. Happy World Book Day! What can be better than celebrating by sharing the joy of reading with friends and family, and honouring the magic of stories that transport us to different worlds? Our schools always celebrate World Book day and the kids can always dress up as their favourite book character. Thanks for sharing, and have a good day 🙂 Aiva xx

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • What a funny idea to dress up as book characters.

      We just thought about which character we would like to be. Siri & Selma think that Kb is like Don Quichote, whereas he thinks he is rather like Goethe’s Faust or Mephisto. Siri wants to be Hermione Granger.

      Thanks and happy reading, dear Aiva xxxx
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Like

    • We buy a lot of second-hand books that we find in churches and charity shops. A long time ago, I found at an English garage sale the first edition of Malinowsky’s “The Sex Life of the Wild“, a book that is often quoted by Freud, Jung, and many others, for one £ because it was the German edition (which is the original edition). And so on and off we find really interesting books. But we buy modern books as well.

      Wishing you happy reading
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  12. I see that librum, the Latin word for ‘book,’ originally meant ‘inner bark of trees used as a writing material.’ Similarly, English book (like German Buch) is kin to beech (and German Buche), because in ancient times Germanic peoples used the bark of beech trees to write on.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Thanks, dear Steve, for this info.

      We also have the word ‘Buchstaben’ for letters in German. There is a theory that before Gutenberg, the letters in woodcuts were cut in beechwood. But for printing with movable letters, one needed a metallic alloy that lasted much longer.

      Keep well
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Like

    • Ja, liebe Ule, ich bin auch voll begeistert.
      Es bringt die Stimmung der 80er und 90er Jahre zurück. Ich kann mich mit beiden Protagonisten gut identifizieren.

      Happy reading
      Klausbernd 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

    • We are all the time changing our bookshelves by sorting some books out and getting some new books in. It’s always hard to get rid of books.

      Thanks for your comment
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  19. Dear Dina, Siri and Selma with Klausbernd, your mailing is appreciated a lot – among so many news of violence and wars. How you look out for printed stuff rather than digital something, so in libraries and churches. Reading Harry Mulisch “Die Entdeckung des Himmels” a while ago really was a magic experience. These days, I feel happy with an own contribution in a printed book … Every day with a book is a world book day to me. Best wishes to Cley next the Sea from Nuremberg, yours Bernd

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Dear Bernd

      The “Entdeckung des Himmels” is a magic book, and I am afraid that I have read it to its end in a couple of days. What then? That’s always the problem with such special books, I feel down when I have finished them. And then the problem is to find another equally good one. I suppose an Elif Shafak novel will do.

      What is your printed book?
      I stopped writing books because everything that’s a part of selling it like lecture tours, book signings and talk shows I hated in the end. Blogging is enough for me now.

      Best wishes to lovely Nuremberg
      Klausbernd 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  20. I love books and I love puzzles, so this was the perfect day and post for me. I prefer real books for the most part, but to be able to take many books along on an e-reader when traveling is a blessing. I also like my Kindle when reading in bed because I can have the lights off, which helps me feel sleepier. 😊

    janet

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Good afternoon, dear Janet

      We are very old-fashioned; we still read real books. We don’t have a Kindle, but we enjoy audiobooks when working in the kitchen or garden.
      Oh dear, Siri and Selma haven’t finished their puzzle yet. Well, they are running around in the garden playing hide-and-seek in the dense fog we have right now.

      Thank you very much and happy reading
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Like

  23. Gerade am letzten Wocheende stand ich auf einem S-Bahnhof vor dem Snack-Automaten und bedauerte, dass schon lange die gelben Heftchen aus der Reihe “Schöner lesen” des Berliner Independent-Verlags SuKuLTuR dort nicht mehr angeboten werden. Spezielle Buchautomaten sind mir hier leider noch nicht untergekommen, sondern nur Automaten, aus denen Pakete mit unverkaufter Ware der Versanhäuser wie Wundertüten angeboten werden.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Hi Christa,

      die Heftchen “Schöner lesen” haben wir leider nicht erlebt, allerdings leben wir auch seit langem nicht mehr in Deutschland.

      Diese Buchautomaten sahen wir zum ersten Mal. In unserer Gegend in East Anglia gibt es die unseres Wissens nicht. Irgendwie finden wir es komisch, ja vielleicht sogar unwürdig, Bücher am Automaten zu kaufen. Da steht uns zu sehr der Warenwert des Buches statt seines wahren Wertes im Vordergrund. Aber da sind Dina und Kb wohl altmodisch, Siri und Selma haben kein Problem damit.

      Automaten mit Paketen unverkaufter Waren kennen wir auch nicht. Aber solche mega-Wundertüten benötigen wir auch nicht.

      Danke und fröhliches Lesen
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  24. A great tribute to an important day. And don’t forget our – often wonderful – public libraries. I couldn’t fully indulge my reading habit without them, and they’re where I first really acquired my life-long dependence on a good book. Happy reading!

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Hi, dear Ortensia

      Which characters did your kids choose?

      Unfortunately, we didn’t have this tradition in my youth. But we had the Pipi Longstockings Day. Every girl came as Pipi Longstockings and the boys like Emil in Lönneberga, Karlsson or Kalle Blomquist. We were all Astrid Lindgren fans.

      Happy reading
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Like

  27. It’s wonderful when you stumble upon a writer you haven’t read and fall in love with their writing. A few years ago I discovered Haruki Murakami and I’ve been buying and reading everything he publishes.

    Happy book day, my friend.

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Dear Richard

      We love the mild magic realism of Murakami, too.
      The author we shortly discovered was Elif Shafak. Now we have all her books and enjoy one after the other.

      Happy reading, our dear bookfriend
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  28. I was pretty sure that I celebrate World Book Day in April, so I had to check with Professor Google to see if I had the wrong date. It appears that there’s one World Book Day on April 25, and then another, celebrated in the UK on the first Thursday in March. I’m not sure, nor could I find why the discrepancy. At any rate, this was a great post and you celebrated in style!

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Dear Terry

      Well, there are two reasons. First, we are British, we are different. Second, every day is actually a World Book Day.
      But it’s great, so we can celebrate on April 25th again.

      Thanks a lot for telling us about the second World Book Day
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  29. Wir feiern den World Book Day komischerweise am 23. April, aber egal, warum auch nicht zwei davon feiern?! 🙂 Also Happy World Book Day! (etwas verspätet). There Are Rivers in the Sky hab ich geschenkt bekommen, bin sehr gespannt!

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

  30. Pingback: Happy World Book Day – Site Title

  32. Ach, das ist immer schön, wenn man auf Beiträge anderer Bücherliebhaber stößt. Und ja, die spontanen Entdeckungen von Büchern in Secondhand-Läden sind wunderbar. Bücher, von denen man vor fünf Minuten noch nicht einmal wusste, dass es sie gibt … Und besonders nehme ich mir euren Wunsch nach Regalen, „die leicht überfordert aussehen“ zu Herzen. Ich arbeite schon seit Jahrzehnten daran 🙂 Weiterhin bereichernde, überraschende Entdeckungen und immer noch ein Plätzchen im Regal für all die Funde!

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    • Ja, in der Tat, das ist fein. Wir kannten gar nicht deinen Blog. Den werden wir gleich mal besuchen, so von Buchfreund zu Buchfreund.
      Bis gleich, aber erst machen wir uns einen GinTonic.
      Bis gleich
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  35. How wonderful that all four of you share the love of reading and book collecting. I believe that books often find us. Many times a book that I have been looking for appears in an unlikely place. Happy World Book Day!

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    • You are right, dear Darlene. “The Discovery of Heaven” found us when we did not expect it anymore. And now we are reading it and can’t stop. It reminds Kb of a great time when he lived and worked in Amsterdam and was as old as the two protagonists.

      Thanks and happy weekend
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  37. I love books and while working in a Primary school, I always dressed up too for World Book Day. It was great fun. when I was in my 20’s in Germany we had those amazing old book shops – ‘Antiquariat’ , they were called ( don’t know the English translation) and you found wonderful older books there. I could be in there all day. Those shops are all gone sadly. You enjoy your books together ♥

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    • Liebe Ute
      auch wir lieben Antiquariate. Besonders in Universitätsstädten findet man oft einige. Aber die gibt es auch in England. In Norwich kennen wir z.B. ein Antiquariat, das sich zu besuchen lohnt (in der Nähe des Haupteingangs zur Kathedrale).
      Mit lieben Grüßen von der Küste
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  38. Eine wundervolle Liebeserklärung an das geschriebene Wort. Habe jeden Satz genossen, ich mochte auch sehr die Bilder. Love books, buy books, read books and stack books wäre toll als Aufschrift auf einen T-Shirt oder einen unheimlich bequemen Hoodie. Viele Grüße von Buchwurm zu Buchwurm

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

    • Liebe Constanze,
      ja, da geben wir dir recht. T-Shirt und Hoodie für Buchliebhaber, tolle Idee. Kb hat ein Brillenetui für Buchwürmer mit einem Hamlet-Zitat:
      “What do you read, my Lord?”
      “Words, words, words”
      Er ist sehr stolz, das zu haben.
      Ganz liebe Grüße zu einem Buchwurm zum anderen
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Like

  39. This is a lovely ode to World Book Day and to all those books that find us in churches, charity shops, and old houses. When I visit someone’s home, I’m always drawn to their bookshelves, as they do tell a little about a person—and it always leads to great conversations.

    Siri has it right, “Reading is magic – just without a wand.” There is something special about being able to be transported to a different place and time and revel in the experience. I think when we get older, we appreciate this so much more than when we were younger. A day is not complete for me if I don’t crack a book (or these days, my Kindle, which I know is not your cup of tea) before turning in… and what I read often seeps into my dreams! Also, I need to thank Dina and you wholeheartedly; your inclusion of the Photoshop editing in your previous post was wonderful. To borrow a quote from the Dylan film (A Complete Unknown), Dina’s photo and the process she used “pretty much struck me down to the ground.”  And I enjoyed experimenting with some of my recent photos 😁! Wishing the Fab Four 👩🏻‍🦳 👨🏻‍🦳 🧚 🧚‍♀️ a brilliant weekend ahead!

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    • Dear Randall
      Dina won gold in a competition last week for one of these pictures. Thank you very much for liking them 🙏 🙏
      We are all dedicated bookworms. We can’t fall asleep without having read at least a couple of pages, and a day without reading in a book or listening to an audiobook is unthinkable for us.
      We had to smile when we read that you look at the books in private houses. We do this as well, but with a little guilty conscience. That’s our absurd bourgeois upbringing.
      Kb and Dina remember their dreams very well. We use to talk about them at the breakfast table, noticing that our dreams are often influenced by what we have read. It gives our reading a wider dimension. On the other hand, we are amazed by how often we find dreams in modern literature. Both dreams and literature speak the same language, that of symbols.
      Thanks for your kind comment. Actually, a dream is a literary text you write for yourself.
      Wishing our dear friend happy reading
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Like

    • It is wonderful to hear Dina won gold for her photo; it made such an impact on me, and it’s an image that would shine in any gallery. I also had to smile when I read that you look at books in private homes with “a little guilty conscience,” as I have that feeling too—it’s like I’m invading their private space… and I try not to get caught, but I can’t help it 😊.

      Liked by 1 person

  40. My dear friends, The Fab Four of Cley, what a delightful celebration of books. I love the way you describe the joy of discovering unexpected treasures whether in churches, old houses, and quiet corners where forgotten books are waiting to be found.

    For me, one of the most exciting moments is opening a book and not knowing what surprise lies inside. A single sentence, a new idea, or a voice from another time can change the whole day. I’m am celebrating World Book Day with you today, but I think that you know how to celebrate books every day of the year!!! My wish for you is that your shelves always be just a little too full. Sending much love and many hugs to our dear friends, The Fab Four of Cley.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  41. Gotteswillen Siri und Selma, passt mir bloß bitte auf KB auf, wenn er dieses Himmel-Buch liest!!! Man weiß ja nie, was solche Bücher mit einem machen…

    Als ich 8 Jahre alt war, las ich “Fury und dann kam der Blizzard”…war so vertieft in den Schnee-Eis-Sturm, dass ich erst irgendwann zufällig wieder bemerkte, dass ich zitternd und frierend auf der Couch lag…das war ein echtes Leseabenteuer!

    Oder mit 12, Dostojewksi, vermutete wochenlang hinter jeder Ecke einen Verbrecher…und Abgründe!!!

    Also, nur unter Aufsicht von Buchfeen lesen, n i c h t allein und mit Pausen! Ach, so, Gehirn versteht nicht nicht?!

    Liebste Grüße von eurem Pialein

    P.S.:

    “All shall be well” ..die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt! Dieser Blogpost ist genial!!! In den Märchen ist eben jede Menge archetypisches Zeug drinnen…

    Hatte sich C.G. Jung tatsächlich mit alten gnostischen Schriften und den Archonten beschäftigt, mit dem, was er halt damals so in die Finger bekam, täte mich mal interessieren…

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    • Ja, liebes Pialein, der Jung war auch ein Buchwurm mit riesiger Bibliothek und einer, der Bibliotheken liebte.

      Das Himmelbuch, “Die Entdeckung des Himmels” ist anders als vielleicht sein Titel vermuten lässt. Es handelt von marxistischen Theorien und anderen Philosophien. Es sind zwei sehr unterschiedliche Freunde in Amsterdam, die ironisch und teilweise sehr witzig miteinander kommunizieren. Ein sehr kluges Buch.

      Klausbernd liebt solche philosophischen Romane wie sie heute z.B. Karl Ove Knausgård schreibt.

      Vielen Dank fürs Kommentieren.
      Wir wünschen dir alles Gute. Ganz liebe Grüße
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  42. Thank you for this FAB4ulous post. I wish I had the space but now if another book arrives (of course, I can’t stop) one has to leave! Our favourite place to take our “over spill” books is the National Trust property at Rowallane as they have a used book section. Another is the one at Castle Ward on Strangford Lough, although we have not visited either for some time as my wife recovers from open hearty surgery last November (it has been a difficult 6 months). We are hoping that as the weather improves we will return to these and other NT locations. I’m late with my comments, sorry, and today 8th March is another special day: International Women’s Day. 🙏

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

    • Dear Ashley

      We hope you are well again.

      We run quite a big book corner in our church. All the books we can’t sell there, meaning that they too long in the shelf, we bring to the National Trust und to the Wildlife Trust as well as books from our library. Although our computerised catalogue tells us about doubles we still find them in our private library.
      We especially collect first editions and signed copies.

      Now we have our car loaded with about 500 books we’ll give away. In our book corner we have about 5000 books we show and a lot of books in the background. We sort out regularly books and we replace books. People should all the time have the chance to find some new books.
      We had to look where the two places are getting your books donated. We donate our books to Sheringham park and Felbrigg, both at the North Norfolk coast where we live.

      Thanks for your comment.
      Wishing you all the best
      The Fab Four of Cley
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

    • Dear Kb, what a wonderful reply. I think I would be very happy living in your village and perhaps I might even attend church again. I don’t have any particular collecting habits except for books about trees and any nature books especially those that contain art and illustration. 🙏

      Liked by 1 person

    • Dear Ashley
      Then you are like Hanne-Dina. She has a really big collection of nature books. Today we found a book about nature, which she has not in her collection, which is rare.
      Thanks
      The Fab Four of Cley 
      🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.