My love of books

I have always loved books. As a child I was lucky enough to be presented with books as gifts, we had many books at home and I read anything, Enid Blyton, Noel Streatfield, Kenneth Grahame, Louisa Alcott, (a particular favourite) and even my parents Punch books which had wonderful illustrations and were so funny.

But of course, we had a wonderful library, living in Coulsdon in my youth, and so often went there and took ages pondering which ones to borrow. I remember also, when in my teens, that one of the librarians was also rather good looking so the visits became more frequent.

I did belong to a book club for a while but now either purchase books or use our library in Haywards Heath. It is always welcoming and I used to take my grandsons there to get them to enjoy books and occasionally there was a sing song too.

Thank you for all those wonderful authors and to all the librarians, past and present, 100 years!