This is for the folks back home in Dunedin. I hear from Robert that the secondhand bookstore Arcadia is closing, due to increased rent costs. I lived for a year two blocks down from Arcadia and spent simply ridiculous amounts of money there. (That flat was also within spitting distance of a video rental place, a second-hand furniture store, a fish-and-chip store, an all-night dairy, an independant movie theatre, two cafes and my office — the house was an absolute dump, otherwise I’d have happily stayed there for the rest of my time in Dunedin.)

So join me in a moment of silence for Arcadia, then hie thee down there to the clearing-out sale. It’s on Great King St, just north of the university, almost directly opposite the KFC.