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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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I don't own a dressing gown, I even had to borrow one off mum when I was taken into hospital just over a year ago.
Feeling slightly better now although went through a bit of a dodgy time about 9ish tonight, so far, it is the most severe migraine I have had....I blame stress as it appeared right after two stressful events yesterday.
So sorry you're having such an awful time.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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No, its in the middle east. Well outside the EU, except that it is allowed into the Eurovsion.
Here in red. Britain is top left.
Israel is also a member of UEFA (I.e. it is in Europe for footballing purposes) and hence it's national team is in the European group for World Cup qualifying and its club teams play in European competitions.
Somewhat bizarrely it was in Oceania for footballing purposes until the early 90s!0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I am always gobsmacked at [a] how expensive books are in charity shops how many chef/celeb cookery books end up in charity shops so quickly [c] how no charity shops have old/interesting books in them.
And not just books - clothes can be ridiculously priced in most of them too.
Some charity shops are worse than others. There is an oxfam (i think) one in Richmond which tries to sell books for £1 less than their original RRP. I doubt they sell a lot of books. The other charity shops are usually much more reasonable.
On the subject of expensive books, I was shocked when I tried to buy a book in Australia. A bog standard paperback novel seems to cost about AUD29.99! Ludicrous even before the exchange rate went all funny.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »Some charity shops are worse than others. There is an oxfam (i think) one in Richmond which tries to sell books for £1 less than their original RRP. I doubt they sell a lot of books. The other charity shops are usually much more reasonable.
On the subject of expensive books, I was shocked when I tried to buy a book in Australia. A bog standard paperback novel seems to cost about AUD29.99! Ludicrous even before the exchange rate went all funny.
When I was a teen my friends and I shopped a lot from charity shops. E the stuff was often one off type stuff, affordable and put together made us fairly 'individual' looking. Now my nieces peer group I think face a different situation. The very cheap clothing shops are CHEAPER than the charity shops, which seem lighter on the ground for really individual or interesting pieces which perhaps people are selling on eBay or at second hand shops or hanging on to. The result is the identikit teen look. Especially in a world where teenage girls get it scarily 'right' to dress 'attractively'. My peers and I dressed ..interestingly, and often were not as covered up as we should have been but the 'wrongness' in our perception of what was good was a saving grace in that we still looked like teens. Teenagers now seen to dress really well often, knowing their best features, and with much more 'nous' as to how to present themselves...which seems somehow less 'safe'
I have seen beautiful scarves and things, but several years ago the point was driven home to me that the charity shop was selling nice but not 'designer' silk scarves for almost twice the prices as the market stall outside was selling silk scarves for.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »Israel is also a member of UEFA (I.e. it is in Europe for footballing purposes) and hence it's national team is in the European group for World Cup qualifying and its club teams play in European competitions.
Somewhat bizarrely it was in Oceania for footballing purposes until the early 90s!
Think that is because its neighbours wouldn't play with it, so they allowed it to play elsewhere.
You could argue that not having a international pop song competition to enter is not the end of the world, though some would say that not having an international football competition to enter is also not the end of the world!I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
N.b. at the moment, with print on demand, it really is no more expensive to print a book with a hundred pictures than one.
At my end we never see print on demand books unless they are donated, at which point we scratch our heads and try and decide what to do with them.
Contrast Harry Potter, where almost all of the early print run went to libraries, with 50 Shades which started in the e-marketplace and libraries were pretty late getting to as a whole. With bestsellers we generally have some copies, but demand keeps them going out for reservations, anything by Hilary Mantel is a prime example. 50 Shades on the other hand was topping the lists before we got it. I'm not involved in book buying, but it must make the job pretty difficult.
Sorry for being a bit late coming back to this comment, but I lost broadband last night.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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chewmylegoff wrote: »Some charity shops are worse than others. There is an oxfam (i think) one in Richmond which tries to sell books for £1 less than their original RRP. I doubt they sell a lot of books. The other charity shops are usually much more reasonable.
On the subject of expensive books, I was shocked when I tried to buy a book in Australia. A bog standard paperback novel seems to cost about AUD29.99! Ludicrous even before the exchange rate went all funny.
Our bookstall pricing is simple.
Paperbacks 50p-80p depending on age and condition.
Hardbacks £1 to £1.50 depending on age and condition.
Anything a 'dealer' is holding firmly at the time the fete opens - £2+
Towards the end of the fete 3 for a £1.
Yesterday the fete made £13000. :T:T:T0 -
Not true in Israel, IKEA is far more expensive there, much to my annoyance. Maybe it is us furreners forcing the price up?
My uncle nearly went to spend his retirement there. He'd heard it had a European standard of living but when he investigated further he came away with the idea that it had south European salaries and north European prices and taxes.
I'd imagine it's at the end of a long supply chain like Iceland with lots of stuff needing to be imported. The Icelanders did most of ther shopping in Glasgow as it was the nearest big city and didn't have high sales taxes.
Maybe it's cheaper to buy stuff in Cyprus and bring it over (is there a ferry service)?There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Why's that then?
Lots of countries in Eurovision aren't in the EU, not just Israel - such as Russia and Norway....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »Israel is also a member of UEFA (I.e. it is in Europe for footballing purposes) and hence it's national team is in the European group for World Cup qualifying and its club teams play in European competitions.
Somewhat bizarrely it was in Oceania for footballing purposes until the early 90s!
That's because, for practical reasons, they can't take part in the Middle East section. It's not realistic to have Israel v Saudi Arabia, or Israel v Syria....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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