open a bilingual bookshop café for poets and philosophers to meet (read all 27 entries…)
I have a plan 3 years ago

the plumber has a corner shop. My mum says he looks like a respectable plumber, and he certainly doesn’t look like a tit-feeling creep but you never know with my luck. Anyway, he’s retiring in December. I thought I would ask my boss if I can have his shop as an office and then turn it into a bookshop (not simultaneously, although there could be a bit of grey area).

It’s on a main crossroads, although this isn’t exactly ‘main’ cos Paris-place set those standards pretty high, it would do. I could so see myself walking down three doors and having a bookshop in the sun.

People I’ve met so far have all been so nice and unrude. I would like them to come to my bookshop, even if they are not poets or philosophers. So far, I like living here, and I think it would strongly benefit from me having a bilingual bookshop café.

So there’s a plan.



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pioneerspirit is re-discovering 43

thanks for the laugh!

it’s brilliant. Though it was a bit difficult to find all three parts of the first episode, so:

Part 1, Episode 1, Season 1Part 2, Episode 1, Season 1Part 3, Episode 1, Season 1

Netflix has this series!

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pioneerspirit is re-discovering 43

very funny

thanks, it is hard to find funny things to watch on American TV. I’m really appreciating these links, i need to laugh.

I've never seen it

but weirdly my friend who had a bookshop in London used to get paranoid it was based on him because the guy who wrote it or was in it or something used to drink in the café opposite. So it’s definitely on my list!

I don’t know if I would continue ‘working’. Ideally not, but I usually manage to complicate my life sufficiently to make that a distinct possibility…

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i don't know if they do

you can’t get it in the supermarket but maybe there is a secret underground mothers’ carrot-cake association.

I’ve never actually been able to eat carrot cake knowingly. The associations (the other sort) are so wrong. Have you got a recipe? It might be time to try.

And daughter and I had just decided we are going to grow carrots now we have a garden. If I can do enough interesting things with carrots maybe I’ll never have to go shopping again and I could also feed the poetic philosophers in my ex-plumber bookshop too. Doubly splendid :)

Cloudberry is a highly skilled migrant.

ta-daa

Laweeez, here is the carrot cake recipe I got from a friend; I tried making it this summer and it’s pretty foolproof and yummy. My only possible objection is that it’s rather oily; you could easily substitute applesauce for half the oil. It’s also not too sweet.

For icing, just Google cream cheese frosting and see what you come up with.

I hope these directions work ok on your side of the pond…

Yummy Carrot Cake recipe (From Loaf and Ladle cookbook)

4 eggs
1 1/2 cups oil
1/2 cup water
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups sugar

2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 lb (+/- 3 cups packed) shredded carrots

Beat the eggs, then add and mix thoroughly the oil, water, vanilla and sugar. Fold in the rest of the ingredients and pour into a greased and floured pan. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out dry.

SallyKitt "Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez

I am working on some poetry

So I can come sit in your cafe and write when I visit!

I'll make

a special writing chair just for you. What sort do you fancy? Do they do pink holey chairs like your shoes? They should.

Your poetry will be adorning the walls of my bookshop and your novel(s) will be on my shelves!

SallyKitt "Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez

Ha!

Yikes! Holey chairs! Reminds me of the holey paddle that the prinicipal of my elementary school was reported to hold in store for the really bad boys and girls. (It was supposed to hurt more.)

Any type of chair will do, really. Something with a little padding is nice…

You give me a reason to keep on writing, Laweeeez!

cheer! cheer! cheer!

:D

thats brill, heres hoping the plan comes together :)
i love the sound of your would be bookshop

Silly Drowa daring to fully love

why limit yourself

to bi-lingual?

assuming you mean franglais?

what about other languages – could become a center for expat community if you get good books from other languages too…

i don't know

why it would be bilingual. When I wrote the goal I didn’t think about it at all. It just seemed the most natural thing, because of my family I suppose.

It could have every language in the world, which would be wicked, although that would be a lot of shelf space. Actually, 2,261 languages with an average of 2cm per book…hmm how much wall is that per title?

I’m not sure there is an expat community here. Something to find out!

SallyKitt "Action is the antidote to despair" - Joan Baez

Actually...

...you could make create installation art. Just ten great books in as many languages as possible.

That is, provided you don’t want to earn any income on the venture. ;)


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