Hattie wants to decoupage the toilet ceiling.
Katherine has joined her in this lunacy.
I have tried to explain that destroying a book when WE ARE A BOOK SHOP is sort of, well, wrong – but they’re not listening. (Plus, on a practical note, depending on which book is PVA’d above the bog, an unsuspecting glance upwards could totally screw with one’s – ahem – aim. Just imagine a short paragraph from the most excruciatingly titled “Please, Daddy, No”? Totally off putting, I would imagine.)
To this end they have started some sort of poll on Twitter (to which I am denied a password. Apparently I’m not to be trusted to do it properly. Mind you, neither is Jonny so I don’t feel totally shunned) and whoever has the most votes by March 1st wins.
That means that should it be ‘YES’, the Terrible Twosome get to plaster Dan Brown on my nice white emulsion, and should it be ‘NO’ they’ll never mention it again.
But I heard the pair of them plotting – if I win they’ll wait until I’m not in and do it anyway.
So, as I said: oh, dear god…
I voted yes. After 20 years as a librarian, I’m used to the idea of destroying/disposing of books that are either past their sell-by date or too damaged to be of use, so don’t break one up because it’s crap (eg “My life at Crossroads” by Noele Gordon), get a worthwhile one (eg “Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by B.R. Burg) that’s too damaged to sell and use that.
But I’m not a member of the twits twitterati! How do I vote against this abomination?!
*sigh* stupid HTML stripping and lack of preview – Imagine a strikethrough line through “twits”.
If there was some way of putting a dan brown page at the bottom of the pan – for something to aim at…?
You may enjoy this poem by a writer I know about a certain author: http://www.johnheronproject.com/wp/?p=970
Since Lou is now not playing fair and has not yet linked to the survey on the blog I shall link to it here – http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JMNMGS2. She is also attempting to renege on her half of the agreement, which is just disapointing really. I had thought her better than that. Perhaps it is time for us, her loyal and loving staff, to start that union and fight for justice and decoupage.
Look at this fine example of a decoupaged ceiling – http://mrpeacockstyle.blogspot.com/2008/11/decoupage-your-ceiling.html.
Vote now and vote yes!
Ah, you’re using SurveyMonkey, not Twitter. Hmm, is Lou spreading misinformation? So I’m not disenfranchised after all. Huzzah!
Yes, but you’re not planning on putting up tasteful pictures of wildlife, you’re planning using Dan Brown.
/me shudders
PS: as a union man myself, I heartily endorse and encourage unionisation…
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I’ve just voted against as well – Lou you’ll have to be on my side forever now!
Abita – without question you have secured my eternal devotion. White emulsion *rocks*!
Well, eternal devotion at least until Tuesday
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