Another Faversham Visit

[jazzy_dave]

Well as you can all guess there was a spring in my step this afternoon. It was too late to do any far away visits. Red Cross charity shops seem to close at 4.30 pm and hence getting down to New Romney, Deal  or Tenderden would be cutting it fine  too much, as i discovered when i did the Hythe visit to find that when i got to New Romney the shop was already closed.

Lucidly i had one in Faversham to do, just four miles away. Picked up some goodies for the fiver. Some books, and a  DVD box set -



Tom Paulin is a poet that hales from Leeds but his parents moved to Belfast when he was still young, and thus you could loosely call him an Irish poet (well his mum was). The Gore Vidal book is a collection of essays on literature and politics. Should be interesting.




Being a pipe smoker, this book just caught my eye. Blurb on the back calls it "the funniest extended mediation on mortality you are likely to read... blah blah"

The icing on the cake though is the classic Jacob Bronowski TV series box set "The Ascent Of Man" spanning across four DVD's fro only £2.Books were a quid each.

Then i get a phone call from React to see if i would do the  Tomorrow People chazzer in Sittingbourne Thursday  for an increased fee. You bet i said !  So now i can do that plus a couple of Tenderden visits and squeeze in one at Tonbridge.

Plus if React and Lodge pay me for jobs in the "pending for payment area" on Friday, and that E bay auction ending on Saturday comes up trumps  i shall be cock-a-hoop .all over the weekend. Yay!

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I hope those payments come through!! That would be marvelous!

*HUGS*

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

I remember The Ascent of Man ... wonderful series.

[silme.livejournal.com]

My husband volunteers at one Red Cross shop and does relief management there and at another shop. (He's trying to get a management job, but he doesn't have a lot of retail experience. He's in that awkward process of having to change careers in his fifties due to jobs in his old field having disappeared. *sigh* Don't tell me the economy is picking up. I have a feeling that you agree with me on that one, alas.)

Anyway, the Red Cross shops around here all close at 5pm. A lot of it depends on how many volunteers they have, though. He has managed the shop on bank holiday Mondays without any volunteers and it's been chaotic. At least on bank holidays, they're only open 10-4.

Good going on getting the React job!

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Oh i do agree about the so-called economy picking up - don't make me laugh. Perhaps in the big towns they close at %pm. I know the Canterbury one closes at 5 pm but Hythe and New Romney thirty mins earlier. I still have the Tenderden, Deal and Romney branches to vist this month.
Oh and talk of changing careers. I have done that on a few times before.That damn Maggie caused me to change one direction when she was in power.

[silme.livejournal.com]

We're in the New Forest, so I'm not talking big towns. :) There are a couple of charity shops in our town that close at 4.30pm, mostly due to lack of volunteers. One of them has rather random openings lately; I fear that they're desperate for volunteers.

He's changed career directions in the past, but it's never been this broad nor this tough. He was younger under Thatcher, of course, which made it easier.

[nyer51.livejournal.com]

You are an avid reader like my daughter.
I used to be, in my younger day, now it usually takes me months to finish a book.
Both of us could spend the whole day roaming the aisles in a used book store.

Good luck on eBay :)

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

Good to hear things 'looking up"!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Then i get a phone call from React to see if i would do the Tomorrow People chazzer in Sittingbourne Thursday for an increased fee. You bet i said ! So now i can do that plus a couple of Tenderden visits and squeeze in one at Tonbridge.
Sweet... :)
Hugs, Jon

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

The Smoking Diaries sounds interesting.

Sounds like your financial side is picking up.

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

Well done on the Bronowski. I have the set (too young to have seen it first time around :) ), they don't make them like that any more.