Fourteen hours have passed and the day is drawing to a close. I have been to work, cooked a massive stew (with potato, sweet potato, onions, carrot, parsnip, swede, lentils and turnip) and taken Number Two Son to work. As a result I’m feeling virtuous.
Tomorrow we will have vegetable soup, which will make me feel even more virtuous as it is full of veg and is a good use of leftovers.
I’m now watching TV, which seems to be the theme of the day.
In the shop we’ve bounced from one problem to another for a couple of weeks now. The swearing customer, cancelled orders, non-paying customers and the so-called “defective coin” problem have passed, to be replaced by the negative stock situation.
Someone ordered seven Princess Diana coins on covers and I could only find five of them. In quantity, whilst I’m gripped by panic, they all start to look the same. It turns out we had sold the other two a month ago but, eBay, at the end of 30 days, had relisted the sold items again. It’s partly the fault of the system and partly my fault for using the wrong setting when loading the covers.
The Queen – Coin on Cover
Fortunately the customer is being quite cheerful about it.
The examples I’ve used have the Queen on them because those are the pictures I have, but they give an idea of what we are dealing with.
I did have to spend an hour going through all our drop down menus checking the settings. I seem to have set three incorrectly, but fortunately none of the others have sold anything. It’s all correct now, and it’s just gone midnight, so, though I was going to post this on Saturday, it will now be posted on Sunday, which may cause confusion as I have referred to “tomorrow” in my soup plans. I mean, of course, “later today”.
Such are the problems of late night posting.
I like the cover but the coin looks a bit ugly.
The coins are churned out regardless of quality. I suspect they are the major part of the national income of Tristan da Cunha, the Cook Islands, Niue and the other places that issue them. I say “issue” because I’m not sure any ever circulate in the places named on them.
Your stews sound wonderful! I had to look up swede. They are called rutabagas here.
It turned out quite well in the end., and will make a good soup. I’ll add subtitles next time. 🙂
Yay for cheerful customers!
Seconded. 🙂
By the time we read them it is tomorrow anyway, so who cares? I know, your superego 🙂
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Odd things to collect if you ask me!
I don’t collect anything anymore because I know that when I die it will all be thrown away!
Except postcards, I do collect postcards. And £2 coins!
My biggest regret is spending roughly £2,000 on a collection of lead soldiers that now I don’t know what to do with. Any suggestions?
Postcards are good because they don’t take up a lot of room.
One common reaction to having spent £2,000 on lead soldiers is to buy £1,000 of display cases, or do a lot of dusting.
Or you could contact Vectis Auctions – https://www.vectis.co.uk/
I have the display cases as well. Regrets, regrets, regrets!
There’s always eBay… 🙂
I’ll just put them out for metal recycling!
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If you can get me a good price I’ll go 50/50 with you!
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