h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

An eBay agent, that is...

George put me on to him. He swung by around 3pm with his girlfriend, they looked at my piles of boxed up 1970s-1980s magazines and dead computers, and I could see dollar signs in their eyes. I gave them a crate of magazines to get the ball rolling, and they're coming back next weekend to grab a few computers.

The downside is that I get less than half of the money from each transaction. (They take 50% plus a small commission) The upside is that once the stair cupboard has been cleared I can start to move the junk from the shed in (they were particularly interested in the 405-line TV! ) and eventually clear enough space to move the storage boxes out of the bedroom. And, lets face it, I would never get around to listing all that stuff myself now. It was my original plan, but that was back when I could actually carry a box up the stairs...

I'm on my second day of the electronic diary, and I've already spotted a problem - the clocks go back tonight. So there will be two 1am-1:30am and 1:30am-2am periods, but only one space each in the diary. I 'phoned Ipsos Moray, and they couldn't even see the problem. I was told to "just fill it in an hour late for the rest of the week"...!

I watched "Sanctuary", "Supernatural", about half of "Britain's Flying Past", "Code Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes", "QI" and I'm currently watching "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past".