We live quite remote, not Yukon remote, but enough that you don't want to run out of milk because driving to the nearest shop for more will double the cost per litre. Amenities like a cash-point, gas-station, or chinese-takeaway are much more remote. When we go visit Pat the Salt's old place in Tramore, it's different. The library, for one example, is so close you could hit it with a tennis-ball thrown from the garden. We were in town [in our bib-overalls and shedding straw] earlier in June and I popped up to the library to see what they had for non-fiction / science. Fair enough that most of the books in a small town library are General Fiction, that's what normal people go to browse the collection. It was kinda woeful that there was just over one shelf covering the whole of DeweyDecimal 500, that includes 510 Mathematics 520 Astronomy 530 Physics 540 Chemistry 550 Earth sciences and geology 560 Fossils and prehistoric life 570 Biology 580 Botany 590 Zoology. Compared to 10 linear…
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