John has taken up gardening during the precarious performance at the bookshop.

We will post updates; however, conditions have not changed at the bookshop door. (John will decide whether to open the bookshop this week.)  Also, we have had to postpone the photo contest until business is more predictable.  Our sincere apologies.

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."  

~ Bertrand Russell

"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

~ Theodore Roosevelt

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In Background - The Famous Bridge

A Step Up!  We Are In. *Thank You*, Charlie!

The Neat Little Bookshop Has A Step~ Now if we can do something about the bridge.  Currently, no solution.  All progress stopped.

Fashionable *NEW* "Bump-outs"  ~

Cayuga's New "Bump-outs"

Cayuga goes High-Fashion

Entrace to future ONE-WAY Cayuga Street from Highway 3

One reader writes:  "Everywhere's doing the same.  It's odd.  It'll look nice, but I can't understand why it's happening all over the British Isles and possibly in other towns and cities in Canada too."

Cozy Corner Cayuga & King

Bookshop Green Roof

Talbot Street Today ~

Looks Permanent

Tedious, Difficult Work

Old Buildings.  Old Roads.  Old Village.

Thursday The Bookshop Remains Closed
Getting worse before it gets better!

The Heritage Grand River

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading ~
It vexes me to choose another guide ~
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding,
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

~Emily Bronte [1818 - 1848] Often Rebuked.  Stanza 4

Foot And a Half Drop Into Loose Rubble Saturday Morning

The Neat Little Bookshop was closed most of Friday and all day Saturday.  We cannot explain why a retail business would be left in these conditions for a weekend but there we are.

Today, we will once again contact the county project manager, our councillor and the contractor to see what can be done to reopen on Wednesday.  Meanwhile, we apologize for the inconvenience.  We experienced a visitor stepping into mid-air on Saturday, having forgotten the two foot drop.  There will be no entry to the shop until repairs.

[Please click on photo for larger image. lbw]

Thanks, Geroge.  Great Rig~!

"Here stand my books, line upon line
They reach the roof, and row by row,
They speak of faded tastes of mine,
And things I did, but do not, know.

~ Andrew Lang [1844 - 1912] Ballade of His Books.  Stanza 1

"We marvel, now we look behind:
Life's more amusing than we thought!

~ Andrew Lang, Ballade of Middle Age. Stanza 1

The Way We Were

Happy Father's Day from the bookshop

"When others fail him, the wise man looks

To the sure companionship of books."

~Old Friends

~ Andrew Lang [1844 - 1912] Scots poet, novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature.

"One gift the fairies gave me:  (three
They commonly bestowed of yore)
The love of books, the golden key
That opens the enchanted door."

~Ballade of the Bookworm. Stanza 2

"I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray,
For a house full of books, and a garden of flowers."

~ Andrew Lang [1844 - 1912] Ballade of True Wisdom.  Stanza 3 


"You can cover a great deal of country in books."

~ Andrew Lang [Scots poet, novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature] To the Gentle Reader, Stanza 5

CLOSED FOR THE SECOND DAY ~ This is a foot-and-a-half drop into rubble.  We cannot explain as a small business why the county contract leaves us in these conditions.  We apologize to our customers and friends for any inconvenience and invite the Mayor, the Councillors and the County Project Manager to visit the small businesses in Cayuga.

[Photo taken early Saturday morning, June 20 lbw]

Karen Richardson, Curator Haldimand County Museum

Dedicated genealogist and historian, Margaret Clause

Guest Speaker, Karen Richardson, Curator of The Haldimand County Museum & Archives hosted the Literary Group on Thursday.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:  The literary group that meets every Third Thursday meets today in the Haldimand County Museum, 1:00 p.m.  Thank you to curator, Karen Richardson.

Yesterday OVERFLOW Trucks/Vehicles from the garage-business on Talbot

BOOKSHOP IS CLOSED BECAUSE OF HIGHWAY RECONSTRUCTION AND UNAVAILABLE PARKING

Intersection of Talbot & Cayuga Streets on Wednesday

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ~ We want to see you but we also want you to be safe.

Cayuga Street on Wednesday Behind the Bookshop

These photos are from Wednesday.  Today,  THE BOOKSHOP IS VIRTUALLY INACCESSIBLE.  We will keep you posted daily/hourly if necessary on facebook; also on the bookshop blog.  Apologies for any inconvenience.  Thank you for your understanding.  John and I can be reached at 905.577.5635.  Please leave a message if we are unable to answer.  email:  neatlittlebookshop@gmail.com

We Took a Day Away ~

[Photos: Niagara-on-The-Lake lbw]

"The haunts of happiness are varied, but I have more often found her among little children, home firesides, and country houses than anywhere else."

~ Sidney Smith (1897 - 1959) Lawyer, academic, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs.

[Photo files lbw]