I have finally gotten round to photographing and listing some of my kids' old clothes on ebay. Things are ticking over and if I try and get a few on each week I should manage to have a few extra spends set aside for Christmas and treats.

My frustration is when people win your item and then make no payment, contact you re emails etc and then *poof* disappear.

I currently have an unpaid item, the member seems to still be active and when you look at items they have won (after mine ended) and read the feedback they are prompt payers. I realise that people have lives and don't sit on the 'puter all day (like me) but this auction ended last Saturday! As they have paid others after my auction closed I am a little bummed. I wouldn't mind if they returned my messages (FYI they are not malicious ones - they just say "thanks for bidding and congratulations on being my winning bidder. I am keen to get your item to you asap. If you have problems paying me via Paypal, or no longer wish to complete this transaction then please get in touch") even if it was to say thanks but I've changed my mind - that way I could put it on offer to the next high bidder. Jeesh!

I suppose I shouldn't grumble too much as I have only had 3 people in my 4 year ebay life fail to pay. It is funny though because as soon as you send an item not paid notice they suddenly spring up from nowhere!

Moan over.

In other news ... I am, once again, waiting on the man in the wee blue van (aka gas boiler engineer) to come and tinker with my boiler's bits and get it working again. At the minute I only have hot water - this is lift the skin, near boiling water. No heating. But if I wait a few hours and don't run the hot tap I will have heating once more. But when the heating does come on it cannot then be switched off - not a great situation to be in.

It is usually the same engineer that comes to us - you know that you have had them out once too often when you actually know how they like their coffee! I am not good at coffee orders - always have to ask my Dad how he takes his!

Oh well I better go, ironing to do - or at least give what comes out of the dryer a good enough shake that it will pass without needing to get all the ironing paraphanalia raked out.

Have a great day.

Slainte

Before I forget. Last week two local youngsters died in a car wreck. It was one of their funerals two days ago. He was a big Rangers fan and a crowd of his friends went to a big sports shop chain to buy Rangers tops with his name, age and Forever written on the back. With all the lettering the kids were spending a small fortune. The store manager realised what it was for when he was processing the large order for shirts as a result he charged them less than half price. I thought that it was a lovely gesture from a large chain store. Good to know that they are not all money hunger and do have a soul.