Colin📚
@TheBookshopMan
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Passionate reader & professional book tease. Been in the book industry for 20 years. Lamb since 1990. Mariah Carey tweeted me twice & liked 4 tweets #Lambily
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A 90 year old lady I look after with bad vision spent 3 months making this. She doesn't think it's good. I think it's amazing and full of character. Let's show her how good it is...
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Today, a girl around 4 years old tugged on my shirt and said 'Excuse me man, I think you have really beautiful clothes.' And ran to her dad and said 'the bookshop man's clothes is full of spots'.
It made my year. ❤❤❤
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I've made a book filled with all the lovely comments from this post. I will give it to her tonight.
A 90 year old lady I look after with bad vision spent 3 months making this. She doesn't think it's good. I think it's amazing and full of character. Let's show her how good it is...
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What an incredible gift for the lady I look after.
A year supply of tea from
@YorkshireTea
☕️❤️😭☕️
A 90 year old lady I look after with bad vision spent 3 months making this. She doesn't think it's good. I think it's amazing and full of character. Let's show her how good it is...
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So the lady I look after remembered that she made one other toy which she made in lockdown! 🥹🥹🥹
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I GOT THE JOB!
I am going to be working for charity. A carer for deaf people. A subject close to my heart. I once used to be deaf & had many surgeries to be able to hear. I'm very lucky that I am not deaf now. I'm giving something back to a community that gave me so much!
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Well, she couldn't comprehend the numbers. She was utterly shocked & amused by all the comments. Most importantly, she says that his name has to be Colin as I made him famous. She says that now she is famous that everyone (including her children) will have to pay for her time 🤣
I've made a book filled with all the lovely comments from this post. I will give it to her tonight.
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24 hours and 65,000 likes later. She is going to be mind blown Thank you everyone. I see her tomorrow and I'll let you know what she says! Amazing. ❤️
A 90 year old lady I look after with bad vision spent 3 months making this. She doesn't think it's good. I think it's amazing and full of character. Let's show her how good it is...
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The message inside a leaving card from a lady I look after.
🥹😭💔
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Today, a 103 year old I care for told me I was one of the nicest people she has ever met. I cried. That's quite something! 🥹
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I have just sung 'Without You' by
@MariahCarey
on the top of an empty double decker bus from start to finish and let me tell you something:
1. I can't sing a note
2. As I got up to leave the bus I realised there WAS someone sat directly behind me crying with laughter.
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I look after a lady who is 101. Tonight as I helped her to bed she said to me:
'Colin, I hope you know you light up my life. Every second with you is a blessing.'
I'm not crying...😭❤️
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I care for someone who can barely move and struggles to say yes and no. Yesterday she said 'I love you Colin'... I can't even process it. 😭❤️
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I went under a fog for 5 years.
Today, I'm the happiest I've ever been. The dark days are over.
There is always hope. There's always a hero. It's yourself.
Always remember: this too shall pass.
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My aunt who is in her 70s and has crippling arthritis is making this model village. It isn't finished yet but I couldn't be more proud!
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In the bookshop today I heard a 5 year old boy say to his mum:
'I WANT BOOK TOKENS FOR MY BIRTHDAY AND THEN MORE BOOK TOKENS AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE UNTIL I EXPLODE!'
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So my Christmas Day started by lady I look after who is 101 telling me I'm her best friend and that she is blessed to have me in her life. 😭❤️😭
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Now l work in a care home when I finish a book I take them into the home and give them to the residents. I seem to have started a full time mobile library. They love them!
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Sat on the bus. Going home. Looking down at the bag between my feet and thinking: WHAT HAVE I DONE!
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Win a stack of books!
International giveaway.
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Winner picked at random on March 10th. Good luck!
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Someone just sent me a DM to say my account is boring.
To you, Sir, I say:
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I'm sorry I can't reply to the thousands of messages and comments I've had this week.
All I can say is THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. You've all given us so much happiness.
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After 2 decades as a Bookseller I have just worked my last day.
I have had THE BEST time. 🥹
📚♥️📚
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In the bookshop I work in a customer asked 'You must really like books?'
I've been a bookseller my whole adult life. I married another bookseller. We had a book themed wedding. All my friends are booksellers. I carry 2-4 books in my backpack everyday
Yet I simply replied 'yeah'
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Lots of leaving gifts on my last day. Start my new job tomorrow!
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I'm sitting here with 100s of unread books wondering if I need to make an emergency visit to the bookshop tomorrow for something to read.
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Thank you for all the gifts sent for the lady I look after. She is really very grateful. I can't tell you how much this means to us both. It's been an intense week.
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I was just recognised on the street!!! 😱
'Oh my god. You are the bookshopman! I loved that zebra tweet. All my friends have been talking about it this week.'
MIND BLOWN 🤯
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Everyday I say hello to this man I see. Some days he's chatty and some days he blanks me. Today I realised it is two different people. THREE years I've been chatting to them. 🤯
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I try not to buy books because they are pretty...
...BUT JUST LOOK AT THEM! 😍📚
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Me in the 80's. Reading Enid Blyton, wishing I could be in The Famous Five and also hoping to grow up and be a bookseller.
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How cute is my local bookshop looking today?!
It would be rude not to go in!
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WOW!!!!
30,000 likes and growing. 🤯
AND over a thousand positive comments. I can't wait to show her the PHENOMENAL feedback. Thank you so much. This will mean so much to her. It has made me quite emotional.
A 90 year old lady I look after with bad vision spent 3 months making this. She doesn't think it's good. I think it's amazing and full of character. Let's show her how good it is...
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Shout out to the person who sent me a DM to tell me I have 'a sad little life which has been wasted reading books'.
I just replied this: 'They made my life'
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I am 39 today! 🎉
What will I be doing?
Working at the bookshop of course! Then buying books and eating cake obviously. ❤
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I've just picked up 'Why
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Matters' by
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I've made a lot of windows over the last few years. Here are some of my personal favourites. A thread..
The Flower Girls by
@aclarkplatts
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I used to call it 'Treat Saturday'. It is now called 'Saturday'...
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My new reading sofa just arrived. I'm not moving for the rest of the day now.
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Started my training as a carer. 2 weeks done. Absolutely loving it. I've got my uniform now. ❤️❤️❤️
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I told my bookshop that I have too many unread books and I won't see them for a while. They replied: you always say that.
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Today, I stayed in bed until mid-morning and finished an amazing book. I then had a coffee in a coffee shop. I went to a bookshop and picked up a new book. I then went to work as a carer.
I'm really rather happy.
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Thinking of the time my manager asked me to meet him the other side of London but I had to get rail replacement and I messaged him this by accident. It was supposed to say 'rammed'.
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Spending the day with my auntie. Scrabble, coffee, book talk, bakewells and wine later. Life doesn't get much better.
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Putting up the decorations in the care home. Some very happy people this morning. Heart warming.
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I just received a DM from someone who said my book recommendations helped her get through her grief after the death of her husband... I'm not OK. 😭❤️
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There were times this year when I didn't think I would be here by Christmas.
I was wrong. I was strong. I'm still here.
Never give up! ❤️
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I've just hit 21,000 followers! 😭
To celebrate here are 21 books currently on my radar.
I love you lot!
#BookTwitter
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Found myself a new reading chair.
All I need now is a spare £400.
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I'm NOT standing outside Waterstones counting the minutes for it to open...what kind of person does that?!
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It's tiiiime!
I've just landed in New York to see THE
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#MerryChristmasOneAndAll
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It has been 7 years since my best friend died suddenly just after her 50th birthday.
I miss her. I still talk to her. I hear her giving me advice. She was fierce, loyal and wickedly funny.
She was loved. That's enough isn't it.
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This new pic is definitely a sign the new album by
@MariahCarey
is about to be announced. Disco era? 🕺
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I can't believe I'm writing this:
I'm going to LAS VEGAS in August to see
@MariahCarey
live!
I'm so deliriously happy that I'm crying 😭🥹😭
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I promised I wouldn't buy anymore books...
...but then bookshops! 📚❤️📖
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A lady I look after turned 101 today.
Tonight as I took her to bed she said: Thank you for an unforgettable birthday. It really was a rather jolly time. I'll never forget it as I'll probably be dead by the time i can forget it.
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I've treated myself to a new vase for my new mini bookcase 😍
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My auntie is one of the most important people in my life. Since we lost my uncle a few years ago so I got her a smart phone and I send her a picture a day in December as a digial Advent calendar (and so she knows I always think about her). I think I love it as much as she does.
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I'm learning how to crochet. My friend is teaching me. I'm starting big. I am going to make a jumper...
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Someone I care for is turning 100 soon. She is obsessed by owls so I am drawing and framing one for her.
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I've worked in Waterstones so long that when I leave I get to keep my discount card. It's basically a contest to see who dies first. Me or Waterstones.
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I'm just a boy, sat on the bus, looking down at my latest bookshop purchases. 😍
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A bit rustic but I made some chocolate truffles for the people I care for. They went down very well.
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How have I done this again so quickly after my last splurge?!
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Only a quick sketch whilst planning a large piece but I quite like it for what it is.
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It's not even half nine and I've been to the bookshop already... this is an addiction.
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When I was a bookseller in London these people were just some of my famous regulars:
Benedict Cumberbatch
Tom Hardy
Bob Hoskins
Sue Perkins
Kazuo Ishiguro
Vivienne Westwood
Mel C
Helena Bonham Carter
John LeCarre
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Rebecca Ferguson
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I'm only stood at a bus stop but I feel like I'm in Bladerunner.
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Things I was told I couldn't do by adults as a child:
Hear:I had major ear problems. I had operations & can now hear
Go to college: I have a university degree
Hold down a job: I manage a bookshop
Have a proper relationship because I'm gay: I've been with my partner 16yrs
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24,000 followers!
Thank you for being the absolute best.... that's you. You lot out there! ❤️
I love this space!
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Someone just approached me in the supermarket:
Them: 'Why do you always have a book in your hand?'
Me: 'You never know when you might be stranded for a few hours'
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