the daydream fund challenge thread

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Ebay had cottoned on to mass listings on free listing days, so the excluding turbo lister and such like etc.. which is a toal pain, and a pitty..

A real good thing with turbo lister, you can put photos in the actual listing, so you dont get charged for extra pictures..

to add pics...

in your discription there is a html tab, press this,

then go to you photo hosting ( i use photobucket) and copy and paste the picture hltml code onto your listing ( i normally put the extra pictures at the bottom of my written info)

then click back on the design view tab, and then it will show you your listing with the pics in your listing.

You can add as many pics as you like this way for free;):D

choille

alfie_1 wrote: »

well so far we have had door slams, screams, psycho hen and an axe wielding scot.....just a normal day then:rotfl:

Course it is for a weekday. You wanna see me on Saturdays.:eek:

CTC - I'm a Luddite at heart but I will get there eventually. I'm so slow when I start out on techie stuff.

Thanks those tips sound sound.

Well watching Sting in Berlin to bring a little calm into the caravan.

Poosmate

Hello all.

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Poo

Lotus-eater

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

Ebay had cottoned on to mass listings on free listing days, so the excluding turbo lister and such like etc.. which is a toal pain, and a pitty..

A real good thing with turbo lister, you can put photos in the actual listing, so you dont get charged for extra pictures..

to add pics...

in your discription there is a html tab, press this,

then go to you photo hosting ( i use photobucket) and copy and paste the picture hltml code onto your listing ( i normally put the extra pictures at the bottom of my written info)

then click back on the design view tab, and then it will show you your listing with the pics in your listing.

You can add as many pics as you like this way for free;):D

You can do this in normal listing as well though? I just had to relearn how to do HTML code to insert photos, just as you have given excellent advice to do so, as I've become so used to using ebays easy use photos.
Showing my age a little, I used to sell on ebay when you had to host your own photos and everything had to be in html to change even a little bit. That must be over 12 years ago now, I still have the same account!

Lotus-eater

rhiwfield wrote: »

but how can fleeces be worth so little nowadays?

I know, I'm not a sheep person at all, but whole areas were made rich with wool, it seems strange it's not worth anything today.
I suppose it's just progress, time marches on, different things are now worth money and wool isn't. Man has discovered how to make fake fibres that are cheaper and easier to use.
And world trade has done for the rest.

Shame really, as sheep mostly look after themselves and can live on very poor ground.
I still don't like them though .... put it down to a tup bashing me when I was on work placement as a schoolboy and dipping the bu**ers in goodness knows what devil brew we then used.

lostinrates

I love wool....but thnking about it, when I grab clothes for daily wear round the yard...its a fairly high percentage plastic bottle fleece garment. Mainly because it washes and dries quickly. I have a wool cape...which makes me look like a bale of tweed....that I wear to smartish out door country things...and get a few odd looks...but its better than fleece. I can't afford new tweeds for me....which is telling. Labour intensive but the materials are comparatively cheaper.

DH needs a hacking jacket. The beautiful wool tweeds with a slight modern touch...a bright green line or a pink under/overcheck...are beautiful...the cheaper less pretty ones contain about 4% elastane (useful on a horse) and go through the wash. He'll go for real wool because we're that sort of people but its easy to see why loads wouldn't.

choille

Price of wool is rising - slightly - as the British Wool Board are trying their best to protect it but it's still pitiful & does not pay the shearing. The amount of competition in Aussie & NZ where they have huge sheep farms has depressed the value.

Harris tweed is wonderful stuff & there has been various 'entrepeneurs' in there, but the product is the best you'll get really & is truly sourced. The rise in mega cheap clothing - your Primarks etc has killed it.

I wear wool nearly all the time - Arran jumpers, Norwegian wool - whatever the Shelter shop has in really! Although I do buy new jumpers occasionally too. I wear wool under a fleece - much more effective when it's really cold. OH has Harris tweed jackets. The 'new' tweed is lovely stuff & considering this stuff is water proof, wind proof & mud brushes off it I don't think it's dear at all. It lasts for decades. Some of the colours in the cloth are fabulous & really mimic the landscape - not now though as it's all blubbey white again - brrrrrrrrrrrrr.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Price of wool is rising - slightly - as the British Wool Board are trying their best to protect it but it's still pitiful & does not pay the shearing. The amount of competition in Aussie & NZ where they have huge sheep farms has depressed the value.

Harris tweed is wonderful stuff & there has been various 'entrepeneurs' in there, but the product is the best you'll get really & is truly sourced. The rise in mega cheap clothing - your Primarks etc has killed it.

I wear wool nearly all the time - Arran jumpers, Norwegian wool - whatever the Shelter shop has in really! Although I do buy new jumpers occasionally too. I wear wool under a fleece - much more effective when it's really cold. OH has Harris tweed jackets. The 'new' tweed is lovely stuff & considering this stuff is water proof, wind proof & mud brushes off it I don't think it's dear at all. It lasts for decades. Some of the colours in the cloth are fabulous & really mimic the landscape - not now though as it's all blubbey white again - brrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Its better for your skin too.

The thing ismost eople don't buy with longevity in mind. Cheap...because thats what we have come to expect...and allmost people's budget allows for now ..and easy. I love wool but it does take more time (for more reward, I agree). I'd love to do the animals in tweeds....but even though it brushes clean it is NOT smell resistant! and its not flexible. I've tried several times to smarten up in yard clothes but tracksuits appeal is that they stretch when I climb fences or duck under them...much more comfortable. But I feel like a slob and look like a slob and its depressing.

I've been looking for ages for ''rough wool'' jumpers for dh...like guernseys? I love the feel of them on my cheek when snuggling up to someone...but they are so hard to find. I've seen some mail order but ...I don't know if they'll feel right.

choille

WEll you're such a scruff LIR. Now me I wear an old fleece jacket that I hold together with a bull dog clip & a pair of bright pink salopettes that I got out of LIDL's warehouse in Inverness coz they were 75p clearance - not coz they were pink which I hate & the all weather wellies - I look like I've just pulled out a selection of stuff that's sitting in a bin bag in a charity shop doorway. But do I care as no one sees usually.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

WEll you're such a scruff LIR. Now me I wear an old fleece jacket that I hold together with a bull dog clip & a pair of bright pink salopettes that I got out of LIDL's warehouse in Inverness coz they were 75p clearance - not coz they were pink which I hate & the all weather wellies - I look like I've just pulled out a selection of stuff that's sitting in a bin bag in a charity shop doorway. But do I care as no one sees usually.

Jackets. I've got my new one now but keep wearin he old onewith one sleeve missing...cos the new one is clean . The sip works on my old one, btu th pockets are all hanging out...like some sort of clothing flasher.:D:D