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Well is this the answer? London Coins have appeared on Easylive platform: https://www.easyliveauction.com/catalogue/619f7266ac134db2d8ebd1b3dadfc099/0af8d24542e81eb9357e7ef448a6646f/london-coins-a169-june-2020/?utm_source=ela&utm_medium=email&utm_content=auction_update&utm_campaign=londoncoins-030620

Question from the Daily Mail "Answers to Correspondents" section today: "Just before decimalisation, what was the oldest coin that was still legal tender?" I thought it ought to be easy and jumped straight to the first milled coins of Charles II and even Oliver Cromwell, but then I began to wonder if the hammered coins from earlier would still have been legal tender, no matter how unlikely that someone would have tried to use them as such? And then one could get drawn into the debate of the interpretation of "legal tender" - we have the daft situation now where the £5 coins are legal tender, but not even the banks have to accept them...

Yes - I often wonder who bids these things up so high. Early UK sets I struggle to get £10 for, let alone £20+. I can usually pick them up at local auctions for £3 to £6. The only hammered I wanted was the Harold I penny to tick off another Saxon monarch for me - but it went further than I was prepared to go. I think I have won a couple of other lots so far - Indian and French for onward sale.

Ebay's detection system is automated and not fool proof. As far as I understand it detects the "@" sign in any attempt to send a personal email address through their messaging system. Giving an email as "joe_bloggs at hotmail.com" seems to get through. (I have used this when wanting t stay in contact with someone met through Ebay - but not to cheat!)

I agree using Ebay as an advertising means, then stopping the show to sell direct is immoral - I don't do that and I get as frustrated as any other buyer when sellers do that with items I have been watching. When I sell at auction, I would not end an item early because a regular visitor had offered me a price for it. When I list at auction it is because I do not know really how high it will go, and so I like to let it run and find out. If I have things at BIN and a visitor is prepared to buy it at that price, then I am happy to end the item and sell it to him. When I auction things I do get people asking for a BIN price. Occasionally, if it is really generous, I may accept, but more usually I tell them just to bid like everyone else. If I do decide to take their offer, I do it through Ebay.

Yes - when the seller ends an item early he effectively cancels all bids, so the count will show as zero. As suggested I suspect someone made him an offer to deal outside of Ebay, which he accepted. Whilst this is frustrating for other buyers, and he may have done it just to avoid Ebay fees, it can be for other reasons. I have (had) a number of regular visitors looking at coins and sometimes they would want to buy a coin I had up on Ebay - in which case I am not going to turn them down and insist they buy online, so I will end the item early and deal direct. Also some Ebay sellers also have a website and sell through that as well, in which case they would also need to end items early, though these don't usually list at auction, but rather as Buy it Now.

Just been sent this one - series of wacky adverts for "Japp" bar ( a bit like Mars?). Very funny!

I hope so! I hope I never have to move again as that would be a pig to dismantle and I can barely lift one end as it is!

As a slight detour from gardens, I have spent a chunk of this week building a work bench for myself in the garage. (Previous owner, understandably, took his bench with him.) I have been longing to share it with anyone, so here it is! Made entirely from 4x2 cheap timber and about 8 foot long - designed to take a substantial wood-turning lathe:

Thrushes have been almost wiped out in more urban areas by slug pellets. Apparently they find them irresistible and they kill them quickly and painfully. One garden "essential" that should be banned! Hedgehogs are also killed by them. The local woodland here has quite a few thrushes - amongst many other species of wildlife - but they don't venture into the back gardens much anymore.

Agreed. I also have a couple of Bay trees, a gooseberry bush and pots with mint, chillies and chives in - all useful in the kitchen. The only new thing I have planted this year is a globe artichoke - my favourite vegetable and almost unobtainable in the local supermarkets and greengrocers. I may not get any heads this year, but by next year - here's hoping. Steamed whole and eaten as a starter with lashings of butter!

Wow! A lot of work gone on there! I don't think I could get into half that much... Most of what's in my garden was left there by the previous owner. Very old cob-stone walls abound, which give it great potential for roses and espaliered trees. Every ground surface is either paving slabs or concrete, so no lawn (a bonus) but nowhere to plant anything new (a slight disadvantage).

I don't have a garden half as large or grand as some shared here - this is how mine looks this evening. The tubs in the foreground have strawberries, behind that is a fig tree, and at the back mixed in the the rose are two apple trees, You get the idea that productive plants are more interesting to me?!

They look different positions to me. The dot is 3 1/2 teeth over from E, whereas the apostrophe is 4 1/2 teeth over.

What the Snowflake generation would be asking if this were WW2: Can I have more clarity on "the Country needs you" slogan? It's too ambiguous. Why aren't you doing enough to prevent these air raids? Does the siren apply to everyone? There are only male and female toilets in the Air raid shelters - I don't identify as either - where do I go? This respirator strap is leather, but I'm a Vegan. Why can't I have almond milk on my ration card? I find the term "black out" racially offensive. I find the lack of colour options in my uniform oppressive. How do I apply for compensation for my loss of free time? I find the press treatment of the German viewpoint offensive.

Combination of CGS dodgy grading and Ingram dodgy selling - I am not buying.

That is a beauty! I would hang on to that one for sure!

The suggestion of doing it in 1&1 is that by going through the process of creating the spam filter again, I suspect 1&1 will recreate the spam folder in Outlook for you. I know the problem is in Outlook, I was just looking for a way of solving it for you. I assume you have checked all the other folders you have in outlook, in case it has appeared as a sub-folder there somewhere? (I am not sure the search facility will find it as that is designed to hunt for emails by title or content, not folders.) For future reference, in most Windows applications if you realise you have done something wrong, if you hit "Ctrl Z" it will undo the last action. You can do this repeatedly and undo as many previous actions as the system stores - very useful when you have cocked things up in a big way. Sadly the history of things to undo is lost when you shut down and restart the application, so when you did this you lost the option to undo your move.

Google seems to think 1&1 is the same as Ionos and gives this help page for creating Spam filter: https://www.ionos.co.uk/help/email/setting-up-mail-business/activate-or-deactivate-anti-spam-for-your-company-name-email-address/

It sounds as if 1&1 created the folder for you - I don't use them, so I am not sure how this works. If you have a log in to an account with them, maybe there is something in there that will allow you to re-create it?

I am not sure if this helps: The only folder that Outlook automatically includes for unwanted emails is the "junk" folder, and all Microsoft's automatic rules send spam emails to that. If you had a "Spam" folder, it sounds as if this was something you or someone else created and had home-written rules to send emails from particular sources to that. Was there any particular type of email that ended up there? If this is all correct then you can either allow the "junk" folder to continue to handle things, or you can create a new "spam" folder and create rules to send things to it.

K9P?

Ah yes - I see that now - that explains it! Thanks.

Just out of curiosity, how does anyone see who is watching an item on Ebay? I have been selling there for years and never found a way of doing it - I can see how many are watching, but not who. Any regular Ebay sellers know how?

Cynically one might suggest he resents releasing control of the commission bids as this allows him to bid up to the maximum, even when no one else is interested...