Chris Perkins

Thankyou.

I remember in the South East it was very well promoted in every pub window. It means people go and buy Guinness even if most people aren't Irish. Although it seems everyone has Irish in them. Those Irish certainly knew how to spread themselves around the world.

There's a business idea: Mormon Wife Slabbing. Send a wife off, get her graded and encased in plastic. The higher the grade, the better wives you can swap for. For an MS70 you should be able to swap for at least 10x VF35's! Or, you could take an attractive looking raw wife, send them off to be graded, and if they come back less than AU58, simply pay for plastic surgery break them out, and re submit them. I can just imagine the slabbed wife trade on eBay would bring their servers to a standstill.

That's because you spelt 'colour' the American way. No, not really, it's because there is a size limit so people don't go posting whoping great 1mb jpg's and using my precious bandwith.

By the way, I found out a month or so later that I'd got done twice on the originally mentioned journey from Kent to Chemnitz! This time though, two policemen turned up on my door (in Germany) because I gave them the UK address hoping it would put them off! It didn't. This one was EUR250.00 and 3 German points! The good thing is that German points will never affect me because I have a UK licence, and the DVLA don't get to know about them, so the points were rather pointless. I wondered then about what fun it would be to collect points from as many European countries as possible.

I read 1984 the other month. Well, it's certainly a clever futuristic look at what could have happened if Communism had taken over the world. Well written, as you would expect, and I enjoyed it. I will say though, that the way it ended was disappointing. In the end Winston was found out and almost tortured to death until he towed 'the party' line, which he eventually did and so did his girlfriend. It would have been great if they could have found the rebels and changed the world, but I suppose some books have to have a non hollywood ending or they'd all be the same!

I'll take the credit for that compliment. But in a BBC style, you patrons really do make it what it is! (S-J, did you find my bit about being possessed by the devil on at least 3 occassions yet? Actually I should have listed that as a pastime too)

That's a good point actually. When people tell others about their hobbies, they mention nice things: Natural history, swimming, football, old cars, going for walks and all that kind of rubbish. People rarely have the guts to say what they're really into: Cross dressing, strip clubs, older women, younger men, being the only gay in the village and such like! We should all join up with annonymous ID's, that could be fun! Mind you, there are of course young people in here. (and 2 or 3 of those things in the second paragraph I want no part of)

Feel free to bid then!

ooops. thanks.

I've got some jolly nice stuff on eBay: http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrpp...ssZchrisperkins

You've gone and ruined it now, with your concept and in depth grasp of trainspotting!! Young Miss S-J will be back here, take one look at that, and start to think once again, along the lines of her first insticts! (S-J, he's not with me. I don't know who he is, he just wandered in one day.)

It'll be sorted by denomination, they always have been. Treasury notes first, then early BofE, then post 1925 BofE by denomination.

Oh there are plenty of planks out there S-J. I think most of us here are non nerds. I'm the coolest though

Ok, berg, well let me know how you get on. We'll find a way.

No sign of him so far. I expect he is endeavoring to do those things set out in my first post!

And Oli is 16!! You can smoke and have sex all day long today, in front of your parents, and there's nothing they can do about it!

(boastfully in a very immature fashion) I do a BBC 3 Counties phone-in on coins for up to 2 hours every month, broadcast from Luton.

Yes, of course you can use a credit card. Go here: http://www.predecimal.com/secure/paymentcustom.htm It links to Worldpay for the sensitive bits.

Yes, I can imagine! Well then, I won't say a word.

I think it's just a case of what most people find first. And once you're established with a few contacts it's difficult to change.

Anything you like JMD, but you will probably have to save them to your webspace, in the event that I may delete/move them in the future.

For some reason I find myself whistling the godfather theme while I write this! Erm, where are you located Don Camillo's godson?

I was browsing around a little last night, I think I was looking at cars or something. I checked someones feedback and something they bought was a painting. I thought, that's interesting, so I browsed in the paintings, European 1900 to date section. Then I thought, I wonder if any of the coin designers ever did any paintings, I mean they were artists, I'm sure they could also draw/paint better than your average chav on the street. So within the art section I searched for 'Kruger' (after George Kruger Gray 1880-1943) and it returned no results in the art section. But! it returned a few 'kruger' results in other sections, and I spotted this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=6516962422 A document signed by Mr 'Krugerrand' himself. For some reason I've always had a slight interest in South African history, and this item has a coin link, and a strong South African history link! At first I though £110 (the opening bid) was a lot. I thought perhaps I'd wait and offer the seller £75 afer it finished unsuccessfully. But then, 16 seconds before it ended someone jumped in, leaving me no choice. I whacked £120 on the table with 3 seconds to go, and I got it for £113 something. It'll go nice with my silver contemporary Boer war coin set bought back by a Scotish soldier with an Afrikaans fire insurance document and a Boer war news cutting from a Scotish newspaper that I acquired.

Well if it's as nice as the picture then that's ok.