Justine Crow

@swimble.bsky.social

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South London born, still learning the job after years at the Bookseller Crow on the Hill in Crystal Palace, chippy

Cat with a bald belly soaking up the breeze from a cheap fan on the desk
“Penge Express Drycliner wee haw move in new locasiton… oppersite Penge post office”
We just got engaged Ed & Sian has been typed onto a sheet of A4
Inky stamps on a brown bag of a crow and the mighty EAAAAAGLES!
South London back garden with a laptop inside a carved up cardboard box on a tasteful wrought iron table whilst legs are getting tanned
The author holding up 2 GREAT kids books in our bookshop
Hail pelting down in the traffic
News article that reports Amazon have been forced to withdraw sponsorship from a literary festival after the French booksellers association boycotted. Amazon call it an absurd controversy. Well, quel frickin dommage Jeff.
Roadworks with digger behind safety barrier hung with a Lest We Forget remembrance sign and a traffic cone. Idiots.
Bloke flogging old tut including 2 books in the doorway of the ex-Spoons. No change there then.
Pumpkin with Jon’s sign off - Fight Evil, Read Books
Placcy glass on a car aerial
Table outside with five marble sized red tomatoes with a cat looking baffled in the distance
Six matching bright yellow office chairs, carpet tiles and bike frames loaded against a graffitied brick wall
Washing on a line, shed panels on the floor, Constance in pain
Sculpture by Muttler that looks like upside down pants
Clenched spidey on loo roll. Clench.
2 black & white monkeys - sorry, rescue cats - nearly spooning among toy pandas on a bed
A handmade paper cup decorated by the artist David Vallade with a duck quacking glad all over on one side…
Tiddly fox cub, small as a cat, in a grubby (yeah, judge me) recycling tub
A blackboard with the lyrics for Glad All Over, the Palace fan song
Monty. Telly. Black & white cat watching
Punnets of strawberries with Dyson Farming stamped all over them. Wanker millionaire Brexit loving land-banking whinge merchant.
Books in a local bookshop in Courseulles with Boris Johnson’s biog manspreading right in the middle of the display
Gorgeous ginger cat with mahoosive paws lounging on the grass having stuffed himself with sweeties
A bag of cat treats on a table in the sun
Metal platform for retrieving items high up with a sign in French - pour votre securite ne pas monter sur la girafe
Delicious looking frites & grillades stand at lunchtime outside the big church at La Haye du Puits on market day
Somewhat unexpected BBC headline Brilliant Crystal Palace thump Aston Villa to reach final with a lovely pic of the boys in red and blue
Vintage double decker with bride and groom snogging like loons in front of the grill
An arc of painted eggs hanging from twiggery inside a traditional boozer
Shadow of a cat’s ears
An avo next to The Bee Sting
Black & white cat crashed out on cushion
Panoramic view downriver to Tower Bridge from Blackfriars with sunrise
Beautiful autumnal colours
Empty beach with sunset reflect on the water in greys and golds