I know Netflix has been around for ages but Linda has only discovered it this summer. She keeps popping up beside me when I’m trying to work and providing random suggestions of things I should watch on it.

“Stranger Things, it’s creepy and weird. You’d love it.”

Not sure what she was implying but I was way ahead of her. “Seen it.”

The next time Linda pounced I was trying to finish a particularly awkward spine repair on an old hardback copy of a chess handbook. Normally we might put it out to pasture with our annual book sale to raise funds for new books but this one is out of print and the chess club members insist it’s a vital so I’d spent most of the morning, between answering reader’s questions, carefully re-stitching some of the spine an...

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