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It’s a BBC Radio 4 podcast, basically excerpts from a book. Maybe listen to the last episode- “Cheap British beer”- and see if you find it interesting.
@craig-rex That Lindbergh relic has a Mastercard logo on it!
I picked up a stirrup pump at the junk market, thinking it’ll make a lot with my Air-Raid-Precaution wood saw, only to find that the pump’s missing the brass strainer at the end that dips into the bucket of water. This is a WW2 civil defence type thing; German incendiary bomb drops on your doorstep, you fetch your bucket and pump and spray the burning device liberally whilst singing “Hitler’s only got one ball”.
It’s that kind of week.
@christiner Condolences on your loss. A friend lost her miniature Schnauzer three years back. He used to punch me in the stomach to get me to take him for a walk.
I suspect next year’s selling buzz might be nostalgia. The Germans had Ostalgia for the old Communist times- “Ostalgia is […] an integration strategy used by East Germans who wanted to retain their own original experiences, memories and values incompatible with those of the West German majority” (Wiki article)
I just remembered she was the protagonist in “The Lady In The Van”. Based on playwright Alan Bennett’s memoir, the story of a woman who squats in his driveway in both senses of the word. That’s a film I never want to see again. 🙂
It’s Laurie Fishlock- “an English cricketer, who played in four Test matches from 1936 to 1947. A specialist batsman, he achieved little in those four matches”
@craig-rex The cricketer whose cap has the Prince of Wales feathers on its crest would have been a Surrey County Cricket Club member, i.e. an English cricketer. Looks like Harold Larwood, but I haven’t seen anything to connect him to that club. He’s famous for using Bodyline against Bradman, to the disgust of the Aussies.
@christiner BBC Radio 3 played Samuel Barber’s Adagio at about 3 in the morning. It was also played on the evening of 9/11 at the Albert Hall, in the replacement Prom concert.
Comparing the US ad (Emma Chamberlain buys a new handbag) to the UK ad (eBay seller’s clearing out the junk) I guess eBay US is chasing after buyers and eBay UK wants more sellers.
I gather this is what soured Mercari on the UK- couldn’t get the sellers.
I used to buy cricket books for a friend. One book was about Bradman’s career as a stockbroker in Adelaide. Deeply boring.
When is the last time you saw an ad for eBay on television
TV, YouTube, and on the side of buses here. British Asian woman thinking of selling her partner’s owl lamp he bought in Bali. Then she looks at his Pekinese dog, and the narrator says “Don’t even think about it!”
I bought a cardboard box full of people’s stamp collections.
What a mix! Lots of USA stamps, some very old Italian stamps on ancient browned and crumbly album pages, and an exercise book stuffed full of worthless British definitives. Also some stamps that’ll probably be worth selling, after I’ve carefully soaked off the old hinges and bits of gummed paper that the children who collected them used back in the 1930s.
Bought a crate of disassembled clarinets plus a broken piston trumpet for £30 on Saturday morning at 6 a.m. It was dark, and damp.
Note to self: under no circumstances ever buy a clarinet again.
I’ve got nine clarinet bells plus a broken bell, so I guess there must be nine or ten in the pile. The bells would make nice lampshades for desk lamps, so there is that.
“one of baseball’s genuine and most charming gentlemen.”
That’s four strikes against me, then. Explains things…
