Fastest sale ever

 In the bookshop, we have occasionally sold books before they got onto the shelves -either they were on the desk waiting to be priced, or in the back room and brought down by request, but Tuesday was the first time I've ever sold something before it got into the shop...

We have a few pictures for sale, they're mostly there to make the shop look attractive, but we sell one every now and then.

We sold a picture of some foxes on Tuesday morning, so I went over to the other Weldmar charity shop in Dorchester to pick out a few possible replacement pictures from the donations there.  One of the pictures was a rather amusing cartoon of dogs queueing to use a lamp post.  I tucked it under my arm and was about half way back, when out of the corner of my eye, I saw a women in a cafe turning her head to see it (I was carrying it upsidedown).  I turned it the right way up and held it to the window so she could see it better and said she could have it for £6.  A minute were were having a quick conversation inside the cafe to establish that the picture was being sold for the Weldmar Hospice, that she could pay by credit card and the bookshop was only just down the road.

Four minutes later, she was the happy new owner of the picture!