bargain?

We did another carboot sale today and I can now spot a buyer, from a browser, from a bargain hunter from a chancer.

Buyers - attack your car before you unpacked it - looking for anything collectible. Their favourite thing is to ask have you got any instruments, Lego, mobile phones...

Browsers - these are the people that come to see what other are selling, they maybe looking for a specific item but generally just like to have a look a round. Most people fall in to this category.

Bargain hunters - these are regular at car bots an will knock some money usually 50p off whatever you say the price is. this is not to bad cos as a seller you have just added an additional 50p to the price.

Chancers - these people amaze me, the will ask for a ridiculous amount items. A lady next to us was selling a large piece material, which could have made several cushions and she had told us earlier in the day that she wanted to get rid of it so was selling it cheap - 30p. She was asked how much, said 30 p and chancer said that was too expensive!

Another lady was selling cushions at 50 p each (a reasonable price for a cushion), when asked the price she said '50p each' the chancer then said "50p for 5"!

Finally, in a personal case, we had a fan heater that we where selling a 3 pounds, we were asked how much? "£3" we said - 50p said one guy, £1 said another Chancers! "no" we said.

It surprises me every time we sell stuff, that what we think are good/bargain prices then some others think are ridiculous high and will chance their arm with a stupidly low price.

Free Bread

some time poeple do nice things...like bake bread and give it to the towns folk


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8522830.stm

but there is always someone that want to spoit it

Police in the town warned people not to eat the bread in case it was contaminated.

Sime people have no faith !

Hmmmm coffee.......

Artist assistants stand next to 3,604 cups of coffee which have been made into a giant Mona Lisa in Sydney , Australia . The 3,604 cups of coffee were each filled with different amounts of milk to create the different shades!!


Now this is what I call art!

British biscuit advisory board

You may have seen the TV ad about eating biscuits safely and healthily but according to several papers over half the have been injured by biscuits...

http://bbab.org.uk/promoting-reputation-uk%E2%80%99s-biscuit-and-snacking-sector

With the most dangerous biscuit is the custard cream the safest is the Jaffa cake (which is a lie because it is not a biscuit)

Anyway if you need to check out the safety of you and your favour biscuit then try taking the BITE test

http://www.rockybiscuit.co.uk/bite-tool.html

I have a moderate threat with ginger nuts!

Edinburgh fringe festival

The 10 most unusual fringe venue

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8182611.stm

I may try the fudge shop.

Windmill hill

Yippee, I am finally feeling alot better!

So to enjoy this fact and the glorious weather, Wayne and I thought we would go for a little walk and ended up at Windmill Hill, which is near Beckon Hill. It was named so because it used to have a windmill on it.

So off we plod towards where the hill should be, following the signs which say Windmill Hill. When we found the road we realised we gone to far so we turned round and found a small path and decided to follow that and found ourselves strolling through some pretty woods and eventually we found what was left of the windmill.


We then made out way back throughthe a young part of the national forest to the car.

Wayne had been cycling in the morning and I was knackered from by then so after a quick look at the bird feeding area we came home.

I hope we can have more weather like this we can explore more of the local countryside and I will be feeling better so can play for longer!

the millionth english word?

According to Global Language Monitor (GLM) the millionth English word is ...

Web 2.0

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8092549.stm

"Web 2.0" refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, User-centered design[1] and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0)

To put my two penny's worth I would like to point out this is:

a) a phrase
b) contains a number
c) it is made up a two separate 'words' that all ready exist

therefore I don't consider web 2.0.to be a word.

too early

so it 10.30 on a Saturday and I have already spoke to me mum (7.40 am! )
Walked into town, been shopping, picked up a letter from the post office and visited the music shop.
that is more than than I usually do on a Saturday!

next I am off to bake a cake :)

update: 12.30 cake cooked living room cleaned and house hoovered...hmmm I think I may be ill!

Kitty

How cute is this little fellow, courtesy of the BBC

Meanwhile Guinness woke us up at 1am by making a frog scream... not cute at all

Clockwork Who

On Saturday we went out to a Tutu and/or Trilby party Wayne had a trilby and I had a frilly skirt as i couldn't find a tutu.
However, James decided that his Trilby made him look like the guy from the Clockwork Orange but then decided that he should where a Doctor Who type scarf therefore he was christened as the Clockwork Who -Doctor Who's evil twin (or the clockwork orange man better behaved sibling).

Gnomes

there everywhere!

Ankh-Morpork's twin

how cool is this,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1167987/A-magic-idea-Town-uses-Sir-Terry-Pratchetts-Discworld-inspiration-street-names.html

I may just have to visit

Egg error!

On Friday I was given an Easter egg from my boss (Yippee!)

I thought I would use the egg to make chocolate cereal cakes and take them in tomorrow as an Easter treat

So I slaved for 15 minutes in the kitchen and put the result in the fridge, and whilst i was defrosting the freezer (don't ask) i realised that of the 6 people in my office half of them have giving up chocolate for Easter. d'oh! So it would mean to take in chocolate when they can't eat it.

Looks like Wayne's work will have to eat them instead.