08/06: Making a plan
So there I was vorderin' on the next stage of development and needin to make just s few pemce...
Which was were I was yesterday morning. Now yesterday turned out to be nice with a dose of high pressure and the need to give my wife so time to herself (obstensivly so she could have a nap).
So instead of getting one of my very good friends to do a few hours of donkey work on the PC for which I would pay him some nice cold cash I got him to help me take my youngest son and we went into town.
As it turned outwith visitors dropping buy that there were three of us plus little man in the pram shooting off bright and late at about half one in the afternoon.
I did however have a plan. We walked down to the post office where I purchased a medium sized padden envelope and a first class stamp with the word "large" on it.
Then while in town collecting a box of chocolates for my mums birthday (which was yesterday, happy birthday mum) I selected a filling for the envelope from a chartity shop.
My plan is simple. I will sell the book for cost plus 29p on ebay and as they say in these parts "Bob's your uncle".
So I am now getting ready for to say "hello Uncle Bob" but I am beset by doubts. I know it is a good book. I owned this exact edition when I was a boy.
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, the 1987 Puffin paper back edition with the bright cover illustration by Nancy Ekholm Burkert and her dark black and white internal illustrations with the slightly burtonesk feel to them.
It a classic with just the right ammount of "ooh" to scare yourself with if you are twelve and reading under the covers after lights out and just the right ammount of Roald's best huumour to keep the tone even.
But it's the illustrations that set it apart. They really are something else.
But dispite my confidence that this is a great book in very nice condition with the great illustrations that the book had before the movie came out I still feel huge pangs of self doubt.
Will anyone want to pay £2.19 (including P&P) for this fine book?
It seems a fair price given you can not get the book anymore. Sure the story is still available but without the fine illustrations it's just not the same.
Which was were I was yesterday morning. Now yesterday turned out to be nice with a dose of high pressure and the need to give my wife so time to herself (obstensivly so she could have a nap).
So instead of getting one of my very good friends to do a few hours of donkey work on the PC for which I would pay him some nice cold cash I got him to help me take my youngest son and we went into town.
As it turned outwith visitors dropping buy that there were three of us plus little man in the pram shooting off bright and late at about half one in the afternoon.
I did however have a plan. We walked down to the post office where I purchased a medium sized padden envelope and a first class stamp with the word "large" on it.
Then while in town collecting a box of chocolates for my mums birthday (which was yesterday, happy birthday mum) I selected a filling for the envelope from a chartity shop.
My plan is simple. I will sell the book for cost plus 29p on ebay and as they say in these parts "Bob's your uncle".
So I am now getting ready for to say "hello Uncle Bob" but I am beset by doubts. I know it is a good book. I owned this exact edition when I was a boy.
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, the 1987 Puffin paper back edition with the bright cover illustration by Nancy Ekholm Burkert and her dark black and white internal illustrations with the slightly burtonesk feel to them.
It a classic with just the right ammount of "ooh" to scare yourself with if you are twelve and reading under the covers after lights out and just the right ammount of Roald's best huumour to keep the tone even.
But it's the illustrations that set it apart. They really are something else.
But dispite my confidence that this is a great book in very nice condition with the great illustrations that the book had before the movie came out I still feel huge pangs of self doubt.
Will anyone want to pay £2.19 (including P&P) for this fine book?
It seems a fair price given you can not get the book anymore. Sure the story is still available but without the fine illustrations it's just not the same.
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