Snow!

It snowed in London late last night - first October snow in the Capital since 1934! But it was a North Carolina snow - it's all gone today - not even a trace!
We went to bookstore nirvana today - Charing Cross Road. It's just a few blocks but the best new and used bookstores are there. I love Foyles - It's enormous and it just rambles on and on for five floors. The British book chains - Foyles, Blackwells, Waterstones - do not do things to encourage you to browse and read in the store. Borders does - they have a cafe where you can take unpurchased books and a few seats scattered about - but at the others, it's a stand-up deal.
Another thing about bookstores here - they don't have really extensive magazine sections. Something that cracks me up is that the biography section is filled with books about people I really had never heard of, although we're beginning to recognize the names of TV presenters and politicians now.