New dictionary

My Petit Larousse illustré 1986, £1 (I think) from Tooting Oxfam, being quite heavy for one hand, has been dropped off the side of the bed too many times and the cover is now being held together with Sellotape.

So time for replacement. Off to Amazon where there was a large choice, with prices between £5 and £125, this last for a limited edition, whatever that might mean.

Next stop eBay, where I go for a 2008 edition from the World of Books eBay shop for £5.80 including postage, which seemed very reasonable for a heavy book - and which, in the event, weighed in this morning at a touch over five pounds.

Old (left) and new (right) snapped above. The new slightly larger than the old and with nearly all the illustrations now coloured, but otherwise much the same to look at and handle. The quality of the covers and binding down a bit, with, for example, about 30 large signatures rather than some larger number of smaller signatures. Small enough to be too much bother to count.

Old now slated for honourable burial in the small compost heap after breakfast.

PS: after breakfast: about six inches down, the compost in the small compost heap was brown, crumbly, moist and warm. Warm enough to steam. But no worms - perhaps they cannot cope with the vegetarian diet available there.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-ramp-by-any-other-name.html. The most recent of a number of notices over the years.

Reference 2: http://www.editions-larousse.fr/. Not an easy site to navigate, but I think I could buy the current edition from them for about 30 euros not including postage.