It's Sunday 12th September. Here in Brighton, hundreds of people are lining the streets to support the 2021 Brighton 10K and marathon runners. The weather is a little humid but not too hot for them and the cafes are filling up with people celebrating the achievement of the medal hung round their necks.

We have continued to receive more new issues and mags this week, almost all of which you can see below. There were whoops of delight when we opened the boxes and saw the new more or less. i guess we are suckers for a large format magazine!

Our shout-out this week is for a magazine called an uneasy paradise. It's a look at Britain's canal and waterway system, written and produced by Sebastien and Louise, who have lived on the waterways for the past 10 years. It's both beautiful and rugged. As canal boaters ourselves in the past we love the evocative photography that captures so much of what is good about living on (or being on) these waterways. But we also love its rigorous analysis of what living there is like, how the waterways are run and the prospects for the future. A really good magazine to look at and equally good to read.

Thanks, as ever, for the mask wearing and the hand sanitizing. We hope this will all stop soon as much as anyone does but for now we are happy to stay on the safe side of things.

Our opening times are: 1100-1700 Monday - Friday, 1000 - 1700 on Saturdays and 1200 -1600 on Sundays. If you order online through our website, we'll do everything we can to have your order in the post to you within 24 hours or you can collect from us at any time we are open.

Finally, our love and thanks to Maddy who leaves us this week to go to university. It's been great having her with us. By one of those wonderful coincidences, in a little over a week, we'll be joined on Tuesdays by a new member to the team who is called...Maddy!

With our love, good wishes and thanks.

Martin, Elise, Elsa, Maddy and Jean.