Loose leaves

It turns out that the first few pages of the (second-hand) new notebook are all loose, due to the facing pages on the other side of the stitching having been previously torn out to use as scrap. I thought for a while that the problem was that the entire book had been perfect-bound and the glued spine had become old enough for individual pages to drop out -- this did happen to me once with a pair of nice hardback A4 notebooks that I was using to paste press cuttings into -- but once a few pages had been tugged loose, stitching appeared, and the rest of the binding seems solid enough. Which is a good thing, because it's lovely smooth paper to write on and was probably a fairly expensive product when new. (In fact £4·50, according to the price label still on the front cover!)

I have been copying up the material on the page[s] that fell out; only one used page, as the other two were just loose and can be duly deployed as scrap paper. I am a little surprised that I have apparently only been writing this page for three days, as it feels Much Longer...