{"id":13413,"date":"2024-03-22T10:53:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13413"},"modified":"2024-03-24T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T11:39:16","slug":"days-out-ely-book-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=13413","title":{"rendered":"DAYS OUT: Ely, Book Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This beauty will feature in a separate post.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to do a separate post on the whopping great British Jazz<\/em> tome that arrived today (above).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s arrival prompted me to head to Ely, to unbox it and peruse it at Topping, a suitable temple to literature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also treated – or \u2018tret\u2019 as some Fenny folk say – myself to lunch and a cuppa. There were a few stalls in the Marketplace, including a guy (with very weird hair!) selling books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A concatenation of circumstances meant that my iPhone was at home. So I\u2019d brought along a secondary or backup iPhone. But that wasn\u2019t charging! So I couldn\u2019t do the unboxing video right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is terrific!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I needed something to read, whilst my iPhone was looked at in a Phone tech repair shop. And I hadn\u2019t brought Trafalgar<\/em>, my current book, with me. So I bought James Holland\u2019s Big Week<\/em> from the dude with the weird barnet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a good choice. For starters it ties in nicely with Apple TVs Masters Of The Air<\/em>, which I\u2019m currently following. And for another, it\u2019s just a rip-snorting good read on a subject I\u2019m fascinated by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns out my iPhone battery is on the way out; it loses charge very quickly. But another and bigger problem was a dirt caked charging port. The guy in the phone tech shop cleaned it out and charged it for me, gratis. Which was nice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to front Jap\u2019 art book!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More Fab Jap\u2019 art.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But before sitting down at Topping to unbox British Jazz<\/em>, I popped into Ely Oxfam, which almost always has an interesting selection of art books. On this occasion I came away with two rather lovely books of Japanese stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a mind to cut out and frame as many of the images in these as I can. Keep some for our home, and maybe sell the remainder. That way I may up end up providing us with free home decorations, and poss\u2019 even turning a small Mohammad (prophet!)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mi\u2019raj<\/em>, miniature, attr. Sultan Muhammad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m going to do a separate post on the whopping great British Jazz tome that arrived today (above). But it\u2019s arrival prompted me to head to Ely, to unbox it and peruse it at Topping, a suitable temple to literature. I also treated – or \u2018tret\u2019 as some Fenny folk say – myself to lunch … <\/p>\n

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