This evening I was reviewing the 2025 stats for The Story Cellar. Just saying that makes me feel like I should be chewing a pen while wearing a green visor and punching in numbers on an old calculator. The Story Cellar opened in July and from then until December was open 12 times. Within thoseContinue reading "2026 Goals"
And (almost) 500 more
It's been a few months since I posted that The Story Cellar now had five hundred titles on its shelves. I haven't quite doubled it yet, but we have rounded the eight hundred mark! And I think that's worth celebrating. I started The Story Cellar six months ago with just under two hundred titles. AndContinue reading "And (almost) 500 more"
Down the Pipe
There's something special about the days between Christmas and New Year. For me, they've always been days that seem to exist outside of reality, in their own strange little bubble. There should be no work, no homework, just a week filled with books, good food and playing with the toys you got for Christmas. SpeakingContinue reading "Down the Pipe"
When Cheap Means Cherished
The last time The Story Cellar was opened, two wonderful woman came in to donate books. Last Sunday, I loaded boxes and bags into my car, brought my mother along to help carry, and we drove out to a small village where another wonderful woman was donating all the English books that her and husbandContinue reading "When Cheap Means Cherished"
It Begins
When my son was little, he and I made a pact every year to not do anything even remotely related to Christmas until 1 November. No matter how tempted we were when all the Christmas biscuits started appearing in the shops around the middle of October, and no matter how much I wanted to diveContinue reading "It Begins"
Coffee, Cake and Conkers
October is my favourite month. That riot of colours wrapped in morning mist with the first hint of frost in the air tugs at my heartstrings every year. It reminds me of playing outside, running through the trees as the leaves fell, and my grandmother waiting at home with hot chocolate. Then, as I gotContinue reading "Coffee, Cake and Conkers"
I Would Walk 500 Miles
Or I would read 500 titles ... which you can now at The Story Cellar. I feel very moved by how much it has grown in just two months - and this is two months with two opening days a month. When I started I had three bookshelves. Then new books started pouring in. InContinue reading "I Would Walk 500 Miles"
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
The Story Cellar made the papers! Yes, papers as in plural. Imagine my delight when I opened my postbox on Thursday to find my picture on the front page of the local paper, Øboen. The day before, I had made the online version of the county paper, Fyns Amts Avis. You know you're living inContinue reading "Extra! Extra! Read All About It!"
Opening Day
I did it. I actually did it. After secretly dreaming of it for so many years, I finally opened a bookshop. Even though it's only every other Saturday, even though I still have a day job, even though I only sold five books to four groups of customers, it's a success in my eyes. BecauseContinue reading "Opening Day"
The Trousers of Time
Do you ever get the feeling that your life is re-writing itself around you? That somewhere out there, things are re-shaping themselves, like you're clay on a potter's wheel? Change is slowly creeping up on you, you can't see it but you can feel it. There's excitement in the air. That's me at the moment.Continue reading "The Trousers of Time"