Pass it on, true stories and chilly.

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1. Freecycle -- post anything you have to give away or anything you want on the web and people who want it or have it reply. I got a splendid set of knitting needles this week. Can't wait until I have something to pass on. Click here to see a list of British groups and here to see the Freecycle homepage.

2. A friend telling me that he never thought I was the sort of person who read 'chav rags' like Pick me up, Chat and Take A Break. So I am still safe in my secret fascination with 'I savaged Barbie to save us all' and 'Alcoholic at 12' and 'Caught with 15 men in my shed' and 'Docs told teen: get breeding' and 'He wore my knickers' and 'Just wed and ready to kill' and 'Unnatural relations: Mum fell for her own son'. This last, apparently without a trace of irony, is splashed across the cover above 'EXTRA: 8-page healthy minds pull out'.

3. Carefully eating icecream with a teaspoon.

Comments

  1. AnonymousSunday, January 08, 2006

    If you like the spirit of freecycle, check out www.bookcrossing.com :)

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  2. tristanSunday, January 08, 2006

    hot porridge is more manageable with a teaspoon, too, tra-la!

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  3. AnonymousSunday, January 08, 2006

    See you got your knitting needles :) My first post on Freecycle was a great sucess, it's just such a good idea. Shame TWBC hasn't woken up to it yet.

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  4. UnknownSunday, January 08, 2006

    Thank you for Free Cycle. Any one want an old, very heavy flower press?

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  5. ClareSunday, January 08, 2006

    Plutarch, I've got a flowerpress already, thanks. Found it in a charity shop and snapped it up last year.

    Tristan, have to say: Porridge? blech. It's not one of my favourites, not matter how much cream, golden syrup and chocolate powder you mix into it.

    Disgusted -- are you the knitting needle person deliverer as well as the street crusader? I wasn't sure if it was you or if there were two Disgusteds...

    Anyone got a heartwarming tale of free stuff given by altruistic strangers?

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  6. AnonymousMonday, January 09, 2006

    Sorry not the same person. I was on your site as I recived an email from freecycle saying you had got the Knitting Needles! I do like freecycle a lot and I hope it keeps going before the spammers 'n' scammers find it. My first post, a working washing machine left by an auntie a fews years before, went the next day. The guy came with his son, picked it up with no help needed and then sent me a nice thank you email. Given that for 2 years I had tried to get someone to take it. I tried every chaity shop in camden road, phoned everyone in the telephone book inclduing ones in Tonbridge. No one wanted a working washing machine! It felt strange not to fall over it in the garage. Now its een filled with other junk! I'm still hoping someone has some old bee keeping supplies..

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