Jwil's sorting the debt, the body, the house, the garden and everything else diary!

jwil

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

Good work with the ebay stuff. I've sold my second bundle today so that's another 20 quid in the pot. I've been given two x £5 vouchers from parcel2go so that saves a bit on courier costs as well. Quite pleased. :T

Have more stuff that could do with being listed but not quite sure I can be bothered today. Have lots of other things to be doing.

Well done on the sales, and great news about the vouchers too!

We managed to list 31 items yesterday and did all the relists too, so quite pleased about that.

jwil

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

Lucky you! We are waiting for the school holidays (just one more week to go) and we'll go on an Orange Wednesday. I've just bought the last few DVDs so we can catch up - I've forgotten half of the story at this stage and there's no way I'm reading all the books again.

Was it good?

Yes, it was good. Not as good as the books obviously, and being a bit of a potter nerd, some of the changes they made were a bit annoying, but when isn't that the case with a film from a book?

I think I need to watch it again though

I have all the books and also the audiobooks - frankly nothing beats Stephen Fry reading the books, he did a fantastic job of it, really capturing the emotion and tension. It's always my choice of listening at night when I'm stressed about something.

peaceandfreedom

jwil wrote: »

We managed to list 31 items yesterday and did all the relists too, so quite pleased about that.

31 items. :eek:

Hope they all sell quickly. One day you will have an entirely decluttered house.

peaceandfreedom

jwil wrote: »

Yes, it was good. Not as good as the books obviously, and being a bit of a potter nerd, some of the changes they made were a bit annoying, but when isn't that the case with a film from a book?

I think I need to watch it again though

I have all the books and also the audiobooks - frankly nothing beats Stephen Fry reading the books, he did a fantastic job of it, really capturing the emotion and tension. It's always my choice of listening at night when I'm stressed about something.

We had the first 4 audiobooks (on cassette tape) but kind of gave up after that. The kids used to listen to them on long car journeys.

I like the Harry Potter stories but I don't particularly enjoy the quality of the writing, and this seemed to get worse as the books progress. I agree that the films can never capture the flavour of the books - I remember coming out of the very first film being faintly disappointed because it just didn't capture the atmosphere of the books, which I had been reading at night to the children.

I don't think we bought the books past Order of the Phoenix, or possibly even Goblet of Fire. By then, my oldest was perfectly able to read them herself and the others weren't that bothered.

You are right about Stephen Fry though, he does a marvellous job and never seems to lose enthusiasm for the story.

jwil

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

31 items. :eek:

Hope they all sell quickly. One day you will have an entirely decluttered house.

One day we will, (well kind of...) but there is still a LONG way to go. Most of those items were just little things out of DH's collection, so there is very little in the way of bulk going out of the house.

jwil

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

We had the first 4 audiobooks (on cassette tape) but kind of gave up after that. The kids used to listen to them on long car journeys.

I like the Harry Potter stories but I don't particularly enjoy the quality of the writing, and this seemed to get worse as the books progress. I agree that the films can never capture the flavour of the books - I remember coming out of the very first film being faintly disappointed because it just didn't capture the atmosphere of the books, which I had been reading at night to the children.

I don't think we bought the books past Order of the Phoenix, or possibly even Goblet of Fire. By then, my oldest was perfectly able to read them herself and the others weren't that bothered.

You are right about Stephen Fry though, he does a marvellous job and never seems to lose enthusiasm for the story.

The writing never bothered me. It rarely does - I think the only book that has really irritated me was the Twilight series. But it didn't stop me reading them.

I am one of the saddos that queued for the books at midnight . I always said I never would, then the first time my train from Summer School got back just before midnight so I thought I 'might as well', then each book after that I couldn't resist it :cool:

jwil

Just got a £10 amazon voucher from a survey site, happy there!

DedicatedDFW

Hi everyone

jwil :j:j:j - for all those items listed on ebay well done you :T i am going to have to rethink my e-bay strategy - i am struggling for items to list so spend a while trying to find things and am then too tired to list them :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: - or if i then see how much the item sells for if its just 99p and the item IMHO is worth far more i'll put it to the carboot instead :cool:

Good to hear that you had a nice weekend jwil and that you are looking forward to going to the movies peaceandfreedom

I've been reading but not posting - just been very rundown and had lots and lots of things to do all at the same time - so just a normal week there then eh? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I've been keeping up with my free bingo as far as i can which has helped with vouchers and although i had quite alot of MS's last week i have hardly any this week - and the ones i have are just for re-imbursement (no fee) :eek::eek::eek: Am currently checking if there are any more i can apply for before bed. Very chilly in here brr! but am not putting the heating on thinking of the gas bill

peaceandfreedom - just remembered well done on your sales of clothes bundles too :T:T:T

Will try and pop in more often this week if i can guys - already very tired though with covering a shift for a colleague so only had 1 day off this week *eep*

peaceandfreedom

jwil wrote: »

I am one of the saddos that queued for the books at midnight . I always said I never would, then the first time my train from Summer School got back just before midnight so I thought I 'might as well', then each book after that I couldn't resist it :cool:

Hee hee, a true Potter fan. Do not be ashamed, we all have our sordid secrets.

peaceandfreedom

DedicatedDFW wrote: »

Am currently checking if there are any more i can apply for before bed. Very chilly in here brr! but am not putting the heating on thinking of the gas bill

Sorry to hear you're feeling run-down, DDFW. And there's always too much to do isn't there. I often wonder what it would be like to get up and have absolutely nothing to do, it's unimaginable.

And it is indeed very chilly, no heating on here either, just my Farmer Ned cardie.

DedicatedDFW wrote: »

peaceandfreedom - just remembered well done on your sales of clothes bundles too :T:T:T

Will try and pop in more often this week if i can guys - already very tired though with covering a shift for a colleague so only had 1 day off this week *eep*

Thanks, the ebay thing is going well when I get around to actually listing things. Will try to do a bit more soon but I'm so busy with work (which is a good thing - but there's just so much to shovel into my brain at the moment :cool:).

Hope you managed to get a bit more rest, DDFW.