Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about Magic, Culture and the Paranormal, coming to you from Sunny West London.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. Enjoy.

Today on Rorune soup it's another on-location episode, this time at the world famous

Atlantis bookshop here in London in the Shadow of the British Museum and my

guest is none other than the proprietor

herself author and magical historian Geraldine Baskin so let's jump right on in.

We are here in the Gerald Gardner Room of Atlantis Bookshop with the one and only proprietor Geraldine Baskin.

Geraldine, thank you very much for your time.

My pleasure.

So this is going to be an interesting answer I think because it's kind of the classic opening question for the podcast

But it's a bit different in your case Geraldine were you a weird kid? Yes, I didn't know together appreciate that I was, but I definitely was.

And, yeah, but when you're weird, it's your norm,

it's other people you think are lacking or a bit strange or why do they need to

band together to be able to do things I think weird people tend to be individuals and that gives them a greater strength than they

realize I think it gives them more time to achieve things because they're not held up

by their friends being available. I did have mates I was quite popular in my day.

Well you're still popular.

It was a happy time being a kid, really.

Yeah.

So, I mean, were you a precocious reader?

Yeah.

You sort of hinted that there was a lot of alone time there.

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