Tinker, Tailor, Soldier….
Library worker?!!!...






What-ho, Blog spy-spotters!




Well now, inspired by the release of the latest cinematic manifestation of John le Carre’s George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy I`ve been inspired to do a bit of snooping myself recently…Spying on customers and colleagues, actually, to see if any of ‘em are ‘lefties`….


Have you noticed how many left-handers there are these days?...What on earth’s going on?...






And all these left-handed authors, too?...


Mark Twain


Hans Christian Andersen


Bill Bryson


Thomas Carlyle


Lewis Carroll


Franz Kafka


Douglas Adams


HG Wells


Germaine Greer …Lefties, every man-jack of ‘em!






And another thing…Have you EVER spied how many library staff are lefties? It’s astonishing how many of ‘em are, dear readers…It’s a veritable phenomenon!






…One lefty library colleague - who wishes to remain anonymous - (let’s call him ‘David’, just to protect his identity) says being left-handed makes him “clumsy”, and prone to cause his biro to leak…Or is he just really what we call in the library profession “a M**** P**?”






Intrigued?...Why not do a bit of spying on our library staff yourselves?...


…Sneak up on one, quietly, of course…Ssshhh...Take a peek…


Are they lefties?...


Or are YOU a lefty?...


Let us know – right away.


Tell me, it’ll be our little secret…(Because, of course, there are NO  secret spy scandals here in Bexley, are there?)...






TTFN

I Spy...Books!

The recent spy ring brouhaha has reminded us all of a Cold War time – not long ago – when “Russians were red and found under your bed”…

John Le Carre was the master of the murky world of espionage fiction in the `Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy` era, but he’s still writing insightful and thoughtful spy stories today…

If you want to read more about the real thing, well, try here: SECRET BUTTON

And don’t forget Bexley’s very own Soviet 'mole' - The Spy who came in from the Co-Op…

Mind you, if you want a REALLY weird true spy story, a long, long way removed from Bexley, try The Eitingons – what a family! Talk about fact being stranger than fiction…

Still on the subject of fiction, my own book spies are reporting good things about a new novel – The Spy Game by Georgina Harding…

Can you recommend any other spy stories? Don't keep them a secret.

Please use the comments box below, but DO NOT USE INVISIBLE INK…

TTFN