Riverfields 6 – Margins

0006There are, of course, no time zones in the UK – everything runs on Greenwich Mean Time and the rest of the world’s time is subservient to us. We OWN time, do you hear me? OWN it. Nyah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah!

Introducing Margin’s bookstore, an obvious Borders knockoff. For the younger readers of our blog Borders was one of the first big warehouse bookshops with sofas and coffee. For the even younger readers, a bookshop is a sort of big room full of books you can buy and take away with you.

The bookshop’s manager is Peace McKenzie. Her name is what you get when you combine the names of Peace Anyiam-Osogwe, a magazine editor I knew in the 80s, and Precious McKenzie, the diminutive weightlifter who won gold medals for England and New Zealand in the Commonwealth Games in the 60s and 70s.