Crap weather for September 2024

[rmcin626]

Sunny but only 15c so far

[Alex_UK]

21c and sunny

[rmcin626]

20c now and still sunny very pleasant

[Macca]

Another day that started chilly but ended up warm and sunny.

[Barry]

Reached 28C here after lunch, but was windy so felt cooler.

[Pigmy Pony]

Another warm sunny day again - I think we'll be having this for the rest of the week, with rain returning on Saturday night, just in time to ruin the car boot sales. Again.

[Barry]

We were at a boot sale today. At times it was quite warm and at other times quite windy.

Boot sales depress me, but my partner loves them: both buying and selling. There is nothing there that interest me - I'm sick of the vinyl vampires who have formed a virtual cabal.

House clearance traders really depress me. Quite often part of someone's former belongings are unceremoniously dumped on the ground. These were once somebody's treasured belongings.

When I shuffle off this mortal coil, I shall arrange for my LP and CD collection to go to a charity, where hopefully it will benefit the charity and not selfish traders.

[Pigmy Pony]

We were at a boot sale today. At times it was quite warm and at other times quite windy.

Boot sales depress me, but my partner loves them: both buying and selling. There is nothing there that interest me - I'm sick of the vinyl vampires who have formed a virtual cabal.

House clearance traders really depress me. Quite often part of someone's former belongings are unceremoniously dumped on the ground. These were once somebody's treasured belongings.

When I shuffle off this mortal coil, I shall arrange for my LP and CD collection to go to a charity, where hopefully it will benefit the charity and not selfish traders.

I agree, boot sales are depressing for the reasons you outline. I only go for the CDs (an increasingly fruitless search) and the occasional work-related sundries if they are a lot cheaper than the shops. The proportion of sellers who are actually traders has grown to such an extent that the boot sales would be better described as 'Sunday markets'.

But when I'm gone my records and CDs will go to Anita (who will not be letting them go for pennies, she's sharp as a tack).

If you were to give your collection to a charity, Oxfam might be your best bet - A few years ago I was in their Keswick branch, where a vinyl copy of Physical Graffiti was going for £99 - it was in a locked glass case and looked like it had been discovered at the bottom of a builders skip. Just think what they could do with your collection.

Not all doom and gloom though - sunny out there again, perfect weather for the garden project I'm being made to undertake.

[Barry]

20C with bright sunshine.

[Barry]

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If you were to give your collection to a charity, Oxfam might be your best bet - A few years ago I was in their Keswick branch, where a vinyl copy of Physical Graffiti was going for £99 - it was in a locked glass case and looked like it had been discovered at the bottom of a builders skip. Just think what they could do with your collection.

Yes, I know what you mean. A few years ago I took a lot of photographic art books to Oxfam and all were in very good condition. One was by David Bailey, and to my surprise I later saw it locked in a display case with a £85 price tag.

Obviously all charity shops have to maximise their assets, and now look at online fora to see what a reasonable selling price might be. Oxfam make the mistake of simply looking at the price, with little or no regard for condition.
For example all Decca SXL recordings have a high asking price, yet many are in poor, or indifferent, condition.