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David Simpkin

@simplerdave.bsky.social

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Fine words butter no parsnips. Once and future bookseller, currently based in deepest Nottinghamshire. @Simplerdave on all decent social media - find me here, there and almost everywhere...

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David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 4h

In which case, an ex-Blue Peter presenter or some similar some such - say, Lindsey or Radzi...

David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 5h

TVS, I think - I was a student from 81 to 84, and I think this was (just) after that.

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David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 5h

TVS as well - late at night, if I remember rightly. I know I'd seen it before I ever saw Naked Gun in a cinema.

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David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 1d

Ross is the same - absolute commitment, even though he *knows* he's too old and too stiff #Strictly

David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 1d

As someone else pointed out on here last week, the difference between Chris and Bosh is that Chris actually cares and is giving it his best shot - and that's great, regardless of the results #Strictly

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David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 6d

There's bound to be some good charity shops near you that take books seriously - Oxfam do, the Children's Society do, and so may some of the smaller local charities. Generally speaking, if the book is falling apart, just recycle it, but otherwise all donations are usually well received.

David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 6d

A second-hand/charity bookseller writes: they're probably not valuable, but both might be interesting to someone as a snapshot of a place and a time. Do you have somewhere local to you that takes donations?

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David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks. Those are all great questions.

David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 6d

Eight, amazingly enough. I appeared on the original Fifteen to One back in the late 80s - got past the commercial break, but was first one out...

David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 7d

And I've just reminded myself that the original St Trinian's music was written by your actual Malcolm Arnold...

David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 7d

Chalkstripe suits and trilby hats in black and white. Look both ways and tap the side of your nose...

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David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social · 7d

It's a phrase I know from old films, usually spoken by wide boys and spivs played by the likes of the great Sydney Tafler. London, East End, wartime and beyond.