Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask

[mothman]

Went to this works do, they had this cold carrot salad that was based on carrots oven-roasted with cumin, then covered in a sauce made of Greek yoghurt and coriander. Yum.

[domesticgoddess]

That was my recipe, thankyou very much!  I doubt DG lets her carrots get elderly.

Carrots, yes.  *Carrots*, no.

Hmm, lots of food talk.  Perhaps it's time to bump my thread?  I've been meaning to put that toad in the hole recipe on it for ages.  Sounds like a good Friday night dish, so I'll do it then.  Then all your mad carrot ramblings can have a proper home.

[terminallyrelaxed]

My favourite carrots are the way my Granny makes them. She chops them in the food processor so they're paper thin, then they are steamed in hardly any water, and then tossed in butter and I think some honey. They're lush.

[terminallyrelaxed]

Didnt you have some sesame noodles at the Barby meet? I want to know how to do them.

[terminallyrelaxed]

My questions are three-fold:

I want to ditch all my books. I've only got the favourites left but they've got to go too as I'm sick of moving them, and I want to have as few possessions as possible for the next move.
Do any London whores know where I can take them and sell them for decent money? I don't mean a few quid each or anything, but I want more than 30p each for my huge Alistair Reynolds hardbacks etc.

Where's good for looking for shared houses in London apart from the Loot? Rightmove.co.uk only displays stockbroker collectives as far as I can tell.

I had another one but no, its gone.
Erm, Ou Sans Le Neigedons D'Entente?

[Lady Beaner]

My monkey has been looking for a new place and has been looking here:
http://www.moveflat.com/

I think it updates pretty regularly.

[gazzyk1ns]

TR, could you not just package them up, and next time it's convenient, bung them up in your parents' loft, or somewhere similar? Seems a shame to offload stuff like that, you know you'll regret it in a few years!

[Sherringford Hovis]

I want to ditch all my books.

I had this dilemma last year - I ended up only selling a few of the big valuable ones, because when I calculated the money I'd get for the time invested in selling them, I'd be better off wearing a cardboard hat in hamburger hell. I gave some fiction and my Asterix collection to local hospitals, donated some to the library, and still have a box cluttering up the place that I keep meaning to release into the wild through

http://www.bookcrossing.com/

[Neville Chamberlain]

...my Asterix collection...

Nooooo!!! How could you??? If there's one thing I'm never ever going to chuck out, it's my Asterix collection. Each and every one is a true classic (well, apart from the more recent ones, which are a bit cack).

[The Region Legion]

Do any London whores know where I can take them and sell them for decent money? I don't mean a few quid each or anything, but I want more than 30p each for my huge Alistair Reynolds hardbacks etc.

eBay! Don't take it to a place that'll give you peanuts and then sell it for several thousand percent more.

[chav]

Put the books on Amazon. Matters not what the quality is, as long as you're honest. SigOther did this last week, and shifted about 7 in a week. Seems there are a lot of people using Amazon.co.uk. Some were very specialised textbooks, too.

[terminallyrelaxed]

Thanks people, all good ideas. I can't help thinking the postage on a full-on hardback won't be much less than I'll get for each book.

Gazzyk1ns I know what you mean, but really I'm a read-once kind of bloke, and they are taking up space. Further carpet bombing of my parents' loft with my possessions has been vetoed. I'll see if my bro wants some of them, but at the moment if I'm ever in the ridiculously unlikely situation of duping some credulous female into coming back to mine, she'll be faced with a shelf full of nothing but Sci-Fi and graphic novels - well, I'll just leave the door open to save her time.

[Captain Crunch]

Don't worry - Amazon postage is flat rate so you just need to adjust the price for the heavy books.

[mothman]

I'm planning to have a big book cleanout via eBay. When MrsMoth finally admits that her sister isn't going get off her ass to sort us out a shared pitch at one of them big car-boot sales we keep seeing from the M4 (just after joining from the M32), that is.

[Ambient Sheep]

...be faced with a shelf full of nothing but Sci-Fi and graphic novels.

Could you run the list past me before you put it up on Amazon?  The SF, not the graphic novels.  You could run those past King Mob if you can find him.

[All Surrogate]

...be faced with a shelf full of nothing but Sci-Fi and graphic novels.

Could you run the list past me before you put it up on Amazon?  The SF, not the graphic novels.  You could run those past King Mob if you can find him.

Mmm, I'm interested too.

[terminallyrelaxed]

OK, will go through them when I get home, all further corespondence by PM although I might wack the list in here - don't want to break the rules?

[Mister Cairo]

...be faced with a shelf full of nothing but Sci-Fi and graphic novels.

Could you run the list past me before you put it up on Amazon?  The SF, not the graphic novels.  You could run those past King Mob if you can find him.

Mmm, I'm interested too.

Thirded, esp. the graphic novels. A PM of the list would be lovely

[Ambient Sheep]

Oh God, I forgot about the rules.  How ironic!  <slaps self hard>

[falafel]

Put the books on Amazon.

I was wondering how to make a little bit of money, and I've suddenly been inspired. I just set up an Amazon Marketplace account, and I've put up 40 items for sale already. The great thing is, it's almost all just shit I never liked in the first place! I won't miss any of it! That is, if anyone actually wants to buy any of it. But thanks for inadvertently giving me what may turn out to be a very good idea.

(ed: But just to make it clear, and to ensure my conformity, you can't have any and I'm not telling you what my account name is. Nah-nah-nah.)

[gazzyk1ns]

Reminds me of something my mate did a while ago, he realised that the local Buyright store was selling books at stupidly cheap prices, and that the same books were regularly going for slightly more money on eBay. His little enterprise didn't last long, I think he bought all of the worthwhile purchases they had.

[chav]

Hello, the UK's charity shops. "Condition: Fair - dog-eared cover, sticker with previous monetary value and 'This book belongs to...' legend on IFC"

[Mister Cairo]

Question to the guys who wrote the fake HIGNFY script- towards the end there is a reference to a girl called Sarah Cornley.  Did you invent this girl totally, or was she connected with Jimmy Saville in some way?

[dot]

Reminds me of something my mate did a while ago, he realised that the local Buyright store was selling books at stupidly cheap prices, and that the same books were regularly going for slightly more money on eBay. His little enterprise didn't last long, I think he bought all of the worthwhile purchases they had.

My sister used to do that with clothes from charity shops when she was dole scum. People pay silly prices for things on ebay. I was looking at sd cards the other day and people are paying more than you can get them for in the shops and on ebuyer and stuff! Some dodgey brand you've never heard of, shipped in from hong kong by some jester with 80% feedback. It's madness I tells ye!

[falafel]

Two books gone already.

[Emergency Lalla Ward Ten]

Question to the guys who wrote the fake HIGNFY script- towards the end there is a reference to a girl called Sarah Cornley.  Did you invent this girl totally, or was she connected with Jimmy Saville in some way?

100% invention.

[Cerys]

Is the script you're talking about this one?

[NattyDread]

I've just spotted a large beetle in a glass bottle full of marbles that's been tightly corked for years. What the fuck?!?
Any ideas?

[mook]

Kiss of life?

[NattyDread]

It's very much alive.