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Look out aloft!
The recent story of a pensioner who was trapped all night when a ceiling collapsed on him due to the weight of a large number of yachting books stored in his loft, struck a chord, I suspect, with many readers. Richard Phillips, 79, of Goldhanger, Essex, was discovered mid-morning by a neighbour after spending the night pinned to his bed under falling plaster and some 150 boxes which contained copies of T Panorama of Heritage, a book on Maldon.
raditional Sail – a
anything seems to be a boy thing”
Initial press reports called them ‘yachting magazines’ and my fi rst reaction was to look at how many copies of CB I store in my converted loft study, and worry about the weight of my working library of bookcases there. The CBs have grown to nearly three yards long and have
“Collecting
become a research tool which, with the assistance of the invaluable CB Index, I use on a daily basis. But how much longer can I con- tinue to add to them before the beefed-up ceiling joists start to feel the strain? Of course unconverted lofts are much, much weaker but I wonder how many readers did the same thing, and worried about their collection(s) of reading matter?
Collecting books and magazines, like collecting anything, seems to be a boy thing – most girls seem to get that out of their system during their early teens.
What is good, I suppose, is that women understand this collecting thing in men. They may even promote it. As I discussed Phillips’ predicament with a female friend from Goldhanger she helpfully suggested that those books or magazines might now be freely available. “I bet they’ll just be left outside, we could go and get some...” she suggests, laughing cheekily. Hmm. I could store them in my loft...
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