Monday, November 24, 2008
Monday. Networking and Ebaying and chatting with neighbours.
We were out early again this morning. Ashley was at the station at half past seven and is now safely back in Bangor.
I spent much of the day dealing with eBay business - wrapping, invoicing, dealing with payments, accounts and posting.
I had a lot of things listed on ebay that has been on before and as they had failed to sell last time I put the opening bid at the lowest price possible (and still not making a loss). Buyers like that - and they are determined not to have to pay more than that low opening bid for things they actually quite want. There were half a dozen bids in the last 15 seconds!
One book I knew should sell for more - and it did. It had not been listed before - a 1933 edition of How to tie Salmon Flies.
This afternoon somebody from across town called to collect it and handed over £33.
After he had been, Isobel came round - neighbour from round the corner and we caught up with family news. Good to see you, Isobel.
I have sent many family members the web address for the Picassa album of Roger's birthday photographs. But for those others who might be interested here it is.
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/monkland119/22ndNovember2008RogerSParty#
Now I know how to do it, I guess I can have albums which include more than I ever would have on the blog.
But maybe just a few is normally enough - after all they are mostly for us. We have them all in files on the computer and many are printed in Bill's beautifully produced real albums.
This evening I was contacted on facebook by an ex pupil! Lisa is/was a lovely girl. She is 43 now!
I shall probably see her next week when she attacks me with a needle. She works in the blood taking department at the local hospital and I am due another blood test.
And within seconds I was contacted by distant relation Fran about reunion.com.
I don't really want to get involved in yet another social networking site and I hope she might consider a move to facebook.
Tomorrow we are going to Ikea again.
We don't need a great deal, but we do want our money back on 4 dining chair cushions that we bought. Once home we could see that they were not as good as the ones already on the chairs.
So, once we are there we will stock up on a few more things.
As we ate meatballs bought from their food department this evening I shall probably opt for the pumpkin and seed strudel that I had last time, which was delicious.
Time for bed soon - I am really tired.
I spent much of the day dealing with eBay business - wrapping, invoicing, dealing with payments, accounts and posting.
I had a lot of things listed on ebay that has been on before and as they had failed to sell last time I put the opening bid at the lowest price possible (and still not making a loss). Buyers like that - and they are determined not to have to pay more than that low opening bid for things they actually quite want. There were half a dozen bids in the last 15 seconds!
One book I knew should sell for more - and it did. It had not been listed before - a 1933 edition of How to tie Salmon Flies.
This afternoon somebody from across town called to collect it and handed over £33.
After he had been, Isobel came round - neighbour from round the corner and we caught up with family news. Good to see you, Isobel.
I have sent many family members the web address for the Picassa album of Roger's birthday photographs. But for those others who might be interested here it is.
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/monkland119/22ndNovember2008RogerSParty#
Now I know how to do it, I guess I can have albums which include more than I ever would have on the blog.
But maybe just a few is normally enough - after all they are mostly for us. We have them all in files on the computer and many are printed in Bill's beautifully produced real albums.
This evening I was contacted on facebook by an ex pupil! Lisa is/was a lovely girl. She is 43 now!
I shall probably see her next week when she attacks me with a needle. She works in the blood taking department at the local hospital and I am due another blood test.
And within seconds I was contacted by distant relation Fran about reunion.com.
I don't really want to get involved in yet another social networking site and I hope she might consider a move to facebook.
Tomorrow we are going to Ikea again.
We don't need a great deal, but we do want our money back on 4 dining chair cushions that we bought. Once home we could see that they were not as good as the ones already on the chairs.
So, once we are there we will stock up on a few more things.
As we ate meatballs bought from their food department this evening I shall probably opt for the pumpkin and seed strudel that I had last time, which was delicious.
Time for bed soon - I am really tired.
