Despite the stereotype, nobody working in Castle Bailey library wears glasses. None of us pin up our hair in a bun either. Where do these ideas come from, the 1950s?

Boss Lady does own funky red reading glasses, but she rarely uses them and never in the main library, just for reading reports in her office.

However the No Spectacles rule may be about to be broken and it’s my fault. My sight is fine. But Linda has been struggling. I finally decided to do something about it because she’s clearly in denial.

It started with Linda’s beloved cookery books. We got a new baking book by Mary Berry, one of her favourite chefs. Naturally she borrowed it before I even got a chance to enter its details into the library catalogue. She vanished into the break room for some “quality co...

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