Wednesday, June 09, 2010

AN INVITATION FROM TIME OUT BOOKSTORE
TO MEET THEIR NEW STAFF MEMBER




Apologies if we haven’t been answering our phone, checking our emails or being any use at all to anyone lately.  We have all been a bit distracted this week and we would like to blame it on our newest and best looking member of staff.  A gorgeous 10 week old Tonkinese kitten who has had us all acting like lunatics running around the store trailing pink bits of string, speaking gibberish and doting on her hand and foot, or paw and paw (depending on whose limbs that idiom refers to). 

They say that pets lower your blood pressure but unfortunately in this case I don’t think it’s true.  Every time I call Wendy upstairs in the office she thinks I’m calling to say the cat has been run over.  We are all very nervous about Mt. Eden road which is why we have purchased a water pistol, sprinkled pepper all over the entrance mat and are giving our customer’s mini heart attacks when we yell every time Lucinda goes near the front door.  On this matter, we have our fingers crossed.

With regards to her name, we had an in store competition to come up with a literary moniker.  We had so many excellent suggestions but in the end we decided on Lucinda, a name inspired by Peter Carey’s Booker winning novel ‘Oscar and Lucinda’.  So Lucinda is both a pretty name and a nice tribute to our beloved late cat Oscar.  Thank you very much to the lovely Caroline Constantine who suggested it and who, incidentally just brought us in an armload of home baking.  I can’t believe we get paid for this.

You’re all welcome to come in and visit the new arrival but I can’t promise you’ll get any service.

Much love,

Time Out Bookstore
32 Mt Eden Rd, Mt Eden Village, Auckland

 Open 9am - 9pm, 7 days

Metro Best Bookshop 2009
Penguin NZ Independent Bookshop 2008 and 2009
Thorpe-Bowker NZ Independent Bookshop 2004

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