I think I may have said before the if you wait long enough there a book on every subject under the sun will come into our Oxfam bookshop – and today we had a bit of a niche-book bonanza.

So, in case you are not clear, this is a book on the embroidery of traditional Romanian costumes, with patterns and with a Romanian text – not something we get every day in our Petersfield bookshop. (Apparently worth £50 and should you be interested, it is for sale on Oxfam online.)

This, is a record of the High Sheriffs of Gwynedd from, as it promises, from 1284 to 1993.

Not what I expected from the title – Kalendars? No I don’t know why a Kalendar is a list of High Sheriffs.

But as far as I can work out, it means a list – and in Danish it is a calendar.

Ok I should do more research but I won’t – any research welcome on a (virtual) postcard.

According to a letter inside the book the author said it was out of print pretty quickly.

But he kept ‘ a few copies’ and he gave this one to a Major Corbett, a High Sheriff in the 1990s and donator was indeed another High Sheriff 1989-1990.

No idea how, or why, it ended up with us.

There is quite a lot ( not that I have read it all) of political history as well as the list of the HS.

And finally ……

I rest my case.