a lunchtime episode
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As I've been a bit preoccupied with other regions lately I thought I'd treat my brain for a change. My old Chambers Thesaurus has begun shedding leaves at an alarming rate, so I thought I'd buy a replacement (as opposed to wandering down to the warehouse and thieving another).
I found a new Oxford Concise in W H Smith's for half price which didn't hurt at all, so I added a copy of Roget's. In a spendthrift mood I also picked up the 'New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors'. I don't know about the rest of you, but there's something declasse about paperback reference books, and when three hardbacks were rung up on the till I winced a little... luckily they didn't have a cased copy of Brewer's 'Phrase and Fable' and I remembered that I have a perfectly good 'Oxford Modern English Usage' back in my mother's house (which I'll retrieve next week on my visit home, along with a leather-bound Chamber's Dictionary which I also left there).
Brace yourself for some flowery prose to come :)