Grand day out

Richard needed to take a book somewhere for repairs, and he'd found a bookbinder in Buxton (this sounds like the start of a tongue twister, or a 1930s nursery rhyme).  So off we went for a day out in Buxton, to Scrivener's, "voted one of the Guardian's ten best secondhand bookshops":
https://scrivenersbooks.co.uk/
We drove down through the White Peak, avoiding the busy main roads with their hurtling lorries.  The bookbinder offered to repair the book straightaway, explaining that it was a small job and that normally there'd be a seven month waiting-list for repairs. We browsed, we bought a pile of secondhand books and we went off for a tasty lunch at a cafe nearby. When we got back the book was impeccably repaired, for a proposed cost of a fiver (R opted to pay twice that, given how helpful the woman had been). Meanwhile I had a long chat with the other woman working in the shop; it turned out that we had favourite children's authors and illustrators in common.
Buxton's a funny mixture: an abundance of charity shops and discount shops sit alongside its grand buildings - the echoes of its popular spa-town past.   There's a scattering of New Age stuff too: shops advertising crystals and assorted obscure therapies.  My favourite shop sign was the one for a beauty parlour, somewhat bluntly entitled "Face Facts' :-)
On the way back to the car we found two more good secondhand bookshops. So we came home with a stack of treats, including a few good finds for the grandkids.
Both the main shot and the extra are from inside Scrivener's: a place we'll certainly go back to, before too long.