Debbie Young Raises a Glass to a Cotswold Pub's Free Library Initiative
Debbie Young is refreshed by Scottish mountain air After a fortnight's holiday near Glencoe in a minimalist cottage and abundant fresh mountain air, I returned to my own cluttered cottage ten days ago determined to ditch surplus possessions. Even (whisper it) a few of my large collection of books... Fate sent me a helping hand in the form of a request from the landlady of Dinneywick's pub in Kingswood, the next-but-one village from where I live in the Cotswolds. She asked me whether I could donate any secondhand books for the pub's new free library scheme. I've had a Little Free Library on my front garden wall for a couple of years, and there are more like this popping up all over the country. My own Little Free Library A Bookish Pedigree for a Pub Aggie's interest in doing something similar came as no surprise. When she and her partner Guiseppe ran The Fox in Hawkesbury Upton , they gained a reputation as an innovative, energetic couple full of