Yep I have left it too late. OK well I am not a maiden, let's face it but could not resist using this as a title. And what have I left too late?
A visit to the Book Barn that's what. This place has, over the last few years, assumed a postively mythological Avalonesque vision of a place that I yearned to visit. Friends who have been there have rhapsodised about the choice of books, over 5 million, loads of Green Viragos...I used to drool and was seriously thinking that this spring I would get on my noble steed, or in my case a Nissan Micra, and set off in serach of the Holy Grail.
Well, now it is no more. And what has brought Avalon to its knees? Nothing spectacular, no going up in a blaze, no disaster, just the ending of the lease and it not being renewed. The Book Barn cleared out as many books as they could, but were unequal to the task so they just left a whole load behind. Yes they did and this is what the punters found who heard about this. They have come in their droves every day and just walked away with piles and piles of free books.
It's all too much to bear...
