Tales from a Victorian Arctic Auction Room

Advantages: Bargains galore! Entertainment value.
Disadvantages: Not guarenteed to buy; Can end up with junk

...Last week I went to my first auction, and felt that I’d found a secret Aladdin’s cave. Auctions can be found in most towns and cities, selling an assortment of items or specialising in particular items. They can take place in a richly decadent auction room (e.g. Sotheby’s) or at remote outdoor locations (e.g. Farmer Giles’ cow-dung infested field). My visit took me to the auction house in my street! Despite living here for 9 months I’d previously not had the courage to enter Victorian ex-school (2 classrooms which echo the same sense of centrally heated standards of the Victorian era, therefore absolutely none at all) which are now known as Heritage Auction Rooms in Leek. But having a curiosity for the obscure and a nose for a bargain, I entered the doors on the preview day and browsed its contents...

HappyBunny 09.12.2001 · Read review
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MORE Tales from a Victorian Auction Room

Advantages: Sell unwanted items; Buy wanted items cheaply; Well structured site.
Disadvantages: Transactions are the users risk. People who don't pay up for goods they've won.

...…It began long ago in a galaxy far, far away. One woman struggles relentlessly in her quest for the ultimate wonders of the universe. To seek out new fortunes. To discover the hidden treasures of a yesteryear. And after years of arduous searching, with countless risks upon her life she discovers a New World. The future (ED: Have you had enough build up yet?). She discovers ‘eBay’. And here she tells her story in her usual melodramatic and irritating style in the sequel to ‘Tales from an Arctic Victorian Auction Room’ in ‘EBAY: THE DISCOVERY OF A WARMER PLACE!’… “Captain’s log. Stardate 17893695689900 (ED: Get on with it!). “Today, I was calculating the atmospheric pressure of a new planet in sector 7, when a bug caused a glitch on my interface and displayed...

HappyBunny 23.04.2002 · Read review
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The safest room in the house!

Advantages: Brilliant story, completely captivating
Disadvantages: No special features on the one disc DVD

...Panic Room is a thriller starring Jodie Foster from 2002. It runs for approximately 112 minutes & is rated 15. It received a mainly positive reception from the critics. It grossed an estimated $196,397,415 at the box office on a budget of $48,000,000. Panic Room is directed by David Fincher who is famous for working with Brad Pitt on films such as; Fight Club, Se7en & The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. He also worked on serial killer thriller The Zodiac. The main star of this film is Jodie Foster who I?m sure most of you will have heard of but if you haven?t she?s starred in films such as; Silence Of The Lambs, The Brave One, Freaky Friday & Taxi Driver. Panic Room is about Meg Altman, a recently divorced woman who moves into a new home with her 12 year old diabetic daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart). The house isn?t just...

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Panic Room

Advantages: Scary - Good
Disadvantages: Some weird acting

...Panic Room Panic Room is the story of a mother and daughter who moved into a huge brand new A three floor house with CCTV in every room, a lift, and a panic room. Wow how amazing. Now, their first night in the house they end up getting broken into by three men who are after a certain something in the house. And the three men thought the house was empty so they broke in - but when they found out there was someone living in the house, 2 of the 3 men set out to kill them, just so they could get what they were after. The noise of the men in the house woke the mother, so she checked out the CCTV to find the men wandering about her house, but when she tries to escape the men chase her up the stairs. She runs for her daughter in the top floor then gets the lift back down, and they end up hiding in the panic room, where they can get...

lesleyanne18 26.09.2007 · Read review
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Dear Room

Advantages: honest and thought provoking.
Disadvantages: some work maybe seen as to short.

...about forgeting and things moving on, it covers the changing face of a house he used to wait ouside day after day. Secondly is the title poem 'Dear Room' as you may expect this is the longest in the book covering three pages, this covers the story of the goings on of a room over the years and its first use as a childs play area for games to be played everyday to it gathering dust in lated life and becoming used less and less. Third is 'Helter-Skelter' this doesnt really need any explaination! It is a lighthearted story of a helter skelter through the eyes of the Author when he was a child. Forth is 'Horse and Dolphine Yard' which is a short piece about the author remembering apart of his childhood growing up in china. Fith is 'Party Tricks' quite an adult themed one this one so i'll leave it at that! Sixth is 'Tell' and is a short piece about...

drew_face 10.09.2009 · Read review
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Supreme Auction - eBay seller tool

Advantages: - Online and Offline version available, step by step assistance, fast support
Disadvantages: - already transmitted items can be only modified on eBay

...Me as eBay seller, I tried many different tools to list my auctions. Now I found ?Supreme Auction? and I?m glad about this. I luv this tool. The registration takes just a few seconds and you can directly start to use ?Supreme Auction?. You have the opportunity to use this tool for free. Over 100 free designs (Basic Designs), free online scheduling, free image hosting (up to 4 free XXL images), free gallery, create your own template and more are available for you. What makes the Supreme Gallery so special is the additional advertising label which can optionally be selected in order to accentuate your auction among millions on eBay. To differ from other sellers/auctions, you can create a user defined template by simply uploading a picture you want to have as design for your auction. Another great feature is that I - and you too...

topp 19.08.2009 · Read review
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Room On The Broom

Advantages: Fantastic Book with Amazing illustrations
Disadvantages: None

...Room On The Broom is written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffer. Fantastic book wih amazing illustrations. Julia Donaldson is best known for her prize-winning picture books, but she began her career as a singer and a songwriter, and even spent time busking round Italy and France. She continues to perform her stories, songs and plays to sell out audiences and is the most celebrated writer for young children in Britain today. Axel Scheffer is a star of children's book illustration. His many books have been published in over 30 countries and he has brought to life characters as varied as a dim-witted butterfly, a scruffy giant, an itrepid snail and a Ticklemetoo not to mention a gruffalo or two. Julia Donaldson is one of my favourite childrens book writers. Room on the broom is clever, charming, witty...

debmercury 21.02.2008 (13.03.2008) · Read review
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Car Auctions. Den Of Thieves Or Bargain Basement?

Advantages: Nice cars for less money
Disadvantages: Easier to buy a bad car than a good one

...There seem to be auctions everywhere. We watch them on TV and many of us use ebay regularly. Entertaining and useful, they certainly are, but have you been missing something? What's it like going to a real auction? And what about the auction with the scariest reputation of all? Yes, that's the one. We're talking about going to a car auction. I went to my first car auction in 1976, with my husband-to-be. We took an S-type Jaguar to sell and it sold for what seemed like an incredible amount of money. It got an unreliable, old heap off our hands and we were hooked on car auctions from then on. Nearly thirty years later we're still using the same auction, mainly to sell cars, but we have bought a few bargains. We've also made one or two very bad choices, but I would say that generally our experience of buying this way has been positive...

Marans 10.12.2005 · Read review
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The Common Room, Sheffield

Advantages: Good atmosphere, long opening hours
Disadvantages: Not everyones sort of thing

...It's not often that I am overly impressed by the new bars that open in Sheffield. They come and go frequently and often change names overnight. The Common Room is however one such place that I did walk into and say "wow!" because its discreet entrance offers no hint of what is to be found inside. Located on Devonshire Street next to The Forum shopping complex this is a place that lies right in the heart of the city centre's student quarter. The Forum shopping complex has built up a reputation in recent years as a place to hang out and be seen and there are many small expensive boutique style shops whilst The Forum bar is a frequent haunt of the city's pop stars (past and present) and you even might spot a footballer or too as well. The Common Room opened in 2006 and occupies the area above both The Forum Bar and the shopping centre...

micksheff 17.02.2009 · Read review
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Any Room For Me?

Advantages: Great rhyming text and brilliantly illustrated!
Disadvantages: Some children may be a little scared of the beast that emerges from the ditch!

...suddenly the wind blows her hat off. "Down! cried the witch and they flew to the ground.They searched for the hat but no hat could be found." A dog then appears from the bushes with the hat and asks the witch if there's room on the broom for him; "Yes! cried the witch and the dog clambered on. The witch tapped the broomstick and whoosh! they were gone." And so the story continues with different things falling and the witch having to land the broomstick to hunt for them, each time a different animal finding the item and asking if there was room on the broom for them. Due to the weight of the animals on the stick, it eventually gives way and snaps in two. 'Down fell the cat and the dog and the frog. Down they went tumbling into a bog. The witch's half broomstick flew in to a cloud, And the witch heard a roar that was scary...

neenn 22.04.2007 · Read review
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