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Apr 7

Parfume bottles
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Moving forward

[x] Stop working
[x] Give furniture away
[x] Give clothes to charity
[x] Give old computers and IT equipment to charity
[x] Give plants to good homes
[x] Shred lots and lots of paper
[x] Move boxes to temporary lodging
[x] Clean the old flat
[x] Go to dentist
[x] Say farewells
[x] Get a crazy lady hairstyle
[x] Buy 50 SPF suncream
[ ] Buy sailing kit bits & bobs (balaclava & knife!)
[ ] Get rid of broken MacBook Pro
[ ] Empty three moving boxes at friends’
[ ] Empty two moving boxes at sisters’
[ ] Haul stuff from friends’ to sisters’
[ ] Refresh the blog website
[ ] Build a website for a soap shop
[ ] Start Yachtmaster course
[x] Enjoy Read more

Nov 24

frills on ebay
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Frills for Sale – Part 2

Just a quick note: I have again listed some of my frills on Ebay, so go and have a look if it’s small shoes or dresses you’re after. I will keep on posting more ads this week, but this just for starters.

Shoe sizes UK 2.5-3 / EU 35-36
Clothes UK size 6-10
Shipping to UK (and international only in very special cases)

10% of the final sale prices will support BBC Children in Need charity.

BBC Children in Need’s mission is to positively change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK. They provide this support in the form of grants to organisations working with children who have mental, physical or sensory disabilities; behavioural or psychological disorders; are living in poverty or situations of deprivation; or suffering through distress, abuse or neglect.

My Ebay listings

Oct 22

DameEllenMacArthurOnHerYacht

Admirable Explorers 3: Dame Ellen MacArthur

Dame Ellen MacArthur has announced her retirement from competitive sailing. That was a piece of information I did not expect when I was idly browsing around the BBC News sailing section.

If you don’t know who is Ellen MacArthur, listen up: She is best known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, although she does not hold the record anymore. Sailing 27,354 nautical miles (50,660 km) in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds is not an easy task. Read more