Ah, yes, migration of the mattresses week.

no more hunting for a curb cut or just plain hoiking the buggy upward

Ooooh. Fancy wheels are prompting envy.

Yeah. That looks like the kind of text that's tricky to find outside of a library. If you just wanted to use it but didn't need to own it, there's a copy at the Mount.

Book hoards are always very tempting, especially when you can't actually rummage about in them. And I'm not surprised that there's a level of confusion about the stock. It's almost always been a tripping hazard type of place.

My guess is that some of the upstairs books are listed in the online catalog. The entries are well done but I have no sense of how up to date it is.

Still have more tea cups and saucers than I’ll ever use in relatively complete sets, one of which flew across the Atlantic on my grandfather-in-law’s lap.

It was probably the most difficult experience in my life and I’m sorry you’re both having to face this.

Expect fewer ebooks in the university catalogue unless your institution’s collection budget has a LOT of flex in it.