Today The Neat Little Bookshop Colours Fly Proudly In The Breezes Off The Grand ~ We opened as a used-book store.  When local authors streamed in with their books, we added "new" to our shelves.

Visit us at 29 Talbot Rd. (Hwy. 3) at the corner of Cayuga Street ~ the stop-light before the bridge.  We hope that you will "Come in.  Stay a while.  Read a book."

Sign by Scott Walker.  Helium Balloons, "Buck or Two", Caledonia, Ont.

 The Neat L'l Bookshelf ~

The Neat Little Bookshelf



On its Way to The "New" Bookshop 7 Years Ago

Today's Neat Little Bookshop is one of various reincarnations.  The pine cupboard shown above began its history as a bookshelf in a market-place on Cayuga Street seven years ago.   Build by Hubert Turnbull of East Seneca, Haldimand, today it is the heart of the bookshop. 

After two beginnings and endings in different locations on Cayuga Street, The Neat Little Bookshop opened its door in time for Mother's Day, 2007 at 11B, Cayuga Street.  In the summer of 2011 fortune had it that 29 Talbot Road became available and we moved to what we think is a perfect location for a neat little bookshop.  The original Neat Little Bookshop* was founded in the seventies by Herb Martindale of York. Today we are honoured whenever Herb's daughter, Joyce, and his sister Mary Martindale return to the bookshop.

"Even if you're on the right track,
You'll get run over if you just sit there."
~ Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)  American cowboy, actor, writer.

* Herb's would make five locations!

  DISNEY MEETS BROADWAY

A musical that will make you feel good!

An Afternoon of Lively Entertainment ~ The Robert Wood Singers
 & the Wood Kids Coming to Your Neighbourhood

Sunday, June 10, 2012, 2:30 p.m.

Location:  Fisherville Community Centre

Proceeds from this event will go to the Cayuga Food Bank and Cottonwood Mansion Museum

Adults $15      Children 12 and under $10

Please come by The Neat Little Bookshop; ask for tickets.  Include all your friends; support our local charities.  Or call Lorna 905-772-5997 Cell 905-577-5635 to reserve.

Photo:  lbwalker

"Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world,"

With the wonderful water around you curled,

And the wonderful grass upon your breast ~

World, you are beautifully dressed,

The wonderful air is over me,

And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,

It walks on the water and whirls the mills,

And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.

You friendly Earth!  How far you go,

With the wheat fields that nod and the rivers that flow,

With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles,

And people upon you for thousands of miles!

~ Wm. Brighty Rands (1823 - 1882) English Writer.

Photo:  Conway Park, Cayuga. lbw

"Land was slowly reclaimed from the forest"

"However disparate their origins [early settlers], and however different the imperatives that brought the first settlers, they all faced much the same problems once they were here.  For the majority, starting again in a new country meant first clearing a small patch of land upon which to grow enough food to stay alive."

~ John & Monica Ladell, Inheritance, Ontario's Century Farms Past & Present.  Macmillan of Canada, 1979.

Photo:  Mount Olivet, Haldimand County, lbw

Mount Olivet Lilac Drive Thru'



"All the authorities on the Language of Flowers agree that the purple lilac expresses the First Emotions of Love.  As Robert Tyas explained, the lilac's chief beauty lies in its flowers with their rich, heady scent, but these are short-lived and transient, like the first intense pangs of love."

~ Gill Saunders, Victoria & Albert Museum


"Oh were my Love yon lilac fair..."

 O were my Love yon lilac fair,
Wi' purple blossoms to the spring,
And I a bird to shelter there,
When wearied on my little wing

~Robbie Burns



Bridge Over the Grand



"My most important rule [of writing] is:  If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it."

~ Elmore Leonard (b. 1925)  American novelist and screenwriter.

And, "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip." ~ E.L.

Photo:  lbwalker