Day/date 120111 

I spent the morning, as usual, driving the Citroen estate car/Citroen van of «Bulhosa Books and Living» the firm of high reputation where I have been working for fourteen years. I passed by the four bookshops of my firm: Bom Sucesso, Serralves, Lago and Ceuta street. There I delivered the books our clients asked for and carried for the other bookshops the books in lack. At one o’clock, I came home to have lunch. Afterwards, I drove up to Maia town and worked on the warehouse where I found Zé Miguel, my nephew, delighted with the arrival of two big pallets of England with English books.

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Dia/data 120112

Today I drove to Maia and worked there all day long. I swept my ground of work at the warehouse, I swept the little office where my nephew work with the foreign books, I scrubbed the floor, I tore the cobwebs, I cleaned the dust in the office, I cleaned the warehouse up, I pick the pallet strings up, I tore the old paper boxes, I did all this because I love my «work-ground», I love the place where all day long I work with boxes, pallets and books, I love this place in the same way I fought hunters, gipsies and robbers on my farm!! Please God: keep all this for long.

In the afternoon I built a pallet which I will have to send to Bertrand publisher and dispatched other parcels and boxes to other publishers. At six o’clock pm I pull up before the third warehouse of my boss to fetch some papers and Mr. Albano Andrade crept up before my Citroen van on, and how he brought a bucket with soap water, he threw it in a friendly way at the glass of my Citroen van!! Old chap!! I had to hose all the van immediately! After I drove at home and brought the transfer books of our seven bookshops at Lisbon that our colleagues yesterday sent us to Oporto and the books my nephew set, worked by him. At ten o’clock pm, I am going to sleep.